Libyan Rebels Train Boys Age 7 on Anti-Aircraft Guns to Fight Gaddafi’s War
- Posted on July 13, 2011 at 11:02pm by
Tiffany Gabbay
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This time, the gang that couldn’t shoot straight is made up of seven year old boys firing bazookas and automatic assault rifles.
Yes, while most seven-year-olds are in school making friends and learning to read and write — maybe even pretending to fight with toy guns — in Muammar Gaddafi’s Libya, little boys are being trained by rebel forces to fight and overpower the Colonel‘s loyalist troops in the country’s bloody civil war.
The Daily Mail reports boys as young as age seven have been pictured in Misrata cleaning, assembling and carrying automatic assault weapons.
While reports claim the children don’t appear to have fought on the front lines yet, it certainly seems they are being trained to go in for the kill at a moment’s notice.
Since the uprising began in February, rebel forces have reportedly seized control of most of Libya’s eastern regions, even establishing an administration in Benghazi. The Mail reports rebel forces are gaining ground:
They also control the coastal city of Misrata and much of the Nafusa mountain range south-west of the capital Tripoli.
After a string of victories in recent months, rebel forces have expanded the area under their control in the mountains.
But despite making headway in the east, rebel fighters, whose arsenal is meager at best, have reportedly resorted to constructing makeshift weapons in an effort to contend with Gaddafi’s well-equipped loyalist troops. The Mail talks about how the rebels scavenge for parts and engineer crude rocket launchers:
Heavy weapons are in short supply in Misrata, but ingenious fighters have created workshops where impromptu missile launchers and machine guns are being welded from spare parts.
Sadiq Mubakar Krain, a former oil company foreman, is busy welding some of the weapons using scavenged equipment.
Pointing to a 16-tube rocket launcher, he said: ‘This is the first time I make one of these.
‘I have learned to make other things and to weld, so God willing, I have got this one right.’
The Mail also reports the rebels are working tirelessly to manufacture housings for their heavy artillery and anti-aircraft guns. And, since sophisticated equipment is nonexistent for the group, pick-up trucks will serve as the rebels’ crude rocket launchers.
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Comments (50)
lketchum
Posted on July 14, 2011 at 9:29pmObviously very naive journalists were involved in the writing of this story.
The facts are that in distressed countries all over the world, child soldiers are incredibly dangerous. They are lethal bands and as hard as it is to say (or witness) children in such environments are among the greatest dangers anyone faces. It is indeed horrible to have to share, but it is true – they are cunning, fast and numerous and they will kill you dead as soon as look at you, and fine people, they will not hesitate to eat human flesh – not for a second.
Most American have no idea of just how brutal and dark this planet truly is. It is horrid and humans that have not eaten in a few days are far more dangerous that you can possibly imagine. They are capable of literally anything.
So for those of you whom have prepared and if the worst were ever to happen here, you had better have plenty of people in your home in order to man defenses, or be prepared to have all your food stolen. Kids that seem defensless will attack you like wild dogs. As I said, it’s hard to have to share, but I have seen (sadly) most of this world’s terrible ills. You have to be prepared to make some awful decisions and don‘t think for a second that you won’t – you will – your own instincts to survive are just as powerful.
Report Post »MUDFLAPS
Posted on July 14, 2011 at 9:14pmThen blow them away too. Sorry, war is hell.
Report Post »Mapache
Posted on July 14, 2011 at 1:15pmI am not surprised. If my city was under attack or I was fighting in a civil war, my kids would be happy to help and clean weapons and load magazines. Where has everyone been? Don’t you remember the women and children loading weapons for the men-folk to save the fort, wagon train, etc etc. Keep them off the front lines and out of the line of fire.
Report Post »SamIamTwo
Posted on July 14, 2011 at 9:02amThis is what they do with their youth…not news…but glad it is becoming so obvious that everyone will know how they raise up their young people.
saw the same in the middle-east in 1997.
Report Post »SgtB
Posted on July 14, 2011 at 9:54amThis is what everyone should do with their children, TEACH THEM TO PROTECT THEMSELVES AND USE A GUN! My nephews and nieces have all shot ar’s and hunting rifles and have been taught gun safety. The advantages are at least two fold
1) Your children will have a better understanding of their rights and will be less susceptable to the BS they teach in school about guns killing people (doctors kill more people per year accidentally than gun owners)
2) When your young boy acts like a young boy and accidentally finds your loaded gun that you use for home security, he won’t think it is a toy that he can play with and shoot his friend in the face. Because if you actually taught him gun safety he will understand the dangers associated with the gun and the fact that it is not his and he will get his arse whooped if he messes with dad’s gun.
Report Post »SgtB
Posted on July 14, 2011 at 9:59amAnyone else ever seen “The Patriot” starring Mel Gibson? His young children are pivotal in a fight to save his older son. While this is a fiction film, it does accurately show that when the chips are down, your children may be your only allies and properly training them is key to your survival and their’s as well.
I have no problem with children being taught how to use any type of weapon and using it when it needs using.
Report Post »Bum thrower
Posted on July 14, 2011 at 12:17pmIs Atty Gen Eric Holder’s gun purchase record keeping a form of birth control? If you are going to by your kid(s) a gun, you’ll have to spread it over quite a while. …..so is it better to have fewer kids or none at all……….won’t need so many guns…………LOL
Report Post »I_Hate_Libs
Posted on July 14, 2011 at 7:50amArab Spring and all the peace that goes with it.
The horror of the Democrat mind.
Report Post »SgtB
Posted on July 14, 2011 at 10:02amYour insight or foresight is extremely shallow. Think about it, do you hunt? Do your children hunt? Did you teach your children about guns and safety? Or do you just tell your kids that guns are bad things to be avoided because they kill?
Report Post »Danang1972
Posted on July 14, 2011 at 7:18amLest we forget that during the Revolutionary War many young people stood and fought alongside their parents to fight for our freedom. We may have to train our children to fight once again to keep our freedoms – I don’t really like the thought of that, but when it comes down to final battle against the loonies in our government we are going to need “All Hands On Deck” to preserve this great nation of ours.
Report Post »Think about it!
kaydeebeau
Posted on July 14, 2011 at 5:31amWhere are the “enlightened” comments to this by the “brilliant” Rose-Ellen?
Report Post »Cuthalu
Posted on July 14, 2011 at 1:31amThis is not our fight, it is never good to involve ourselves in a civil war. The blood of that child and others from there is on the hands of the Obama adminstration. This is NOT who we are. It is shameful.
Report Post »crabbyoldman
Posted on July 14, 2011 at 4:05amWe might need Lybia on our side when Iran starts it’s crap.
Report Post »psadie
Posted on July 14, 2011 at 1:16amI am so SICK AND TIRED of these Arabs and their damn wars. They are crazies who train kids to fight and blow themselves up for WHAT? Waste your own lives but not the lives of innocent children who are taught by ignorant people how to wage war instead of learning how to help their country be part of a civilized world. They belong in school so they can contribute to the progress of their country by learning a decent trade. Stop the insanity; it is truly shameful.
Report Post »cromag11b
Posted on July 14, 2011 at 2:33pmYou really don’t have a clue do you?
Report Post »Do you have any idea how much time we as a people have been at peace? Very, very little.
And training kids to fight is nothing new.
Think about the horrors the average drummer boy in the civil war saw being on the front lines, unarmed, in the bloodiest of America’s battles.
abbygirl1994
Posted on July 14, 2011 at 12:57amOnly evil men would do this to children!
Report Post »crabbyoldman
Posted on July 14, 2011 at 4:07amAndrew Jackson was in combat at the age of 13.
Report Post »shirtsbyeric
Posted on July 14, 2011 at 6:25amLarry Flynt joined the army at age 15.
Report Post »SgtB
Posted on July 14, 2011 at 10:08amHow many children took part in defending the colonies in the first civil war? You know, what we call the revolutionary war. In the US, men and women teach their children to use guns and hunt all the time. If a time ever came when the citizens lives ever counted on the ability to arm every able body, you can sure bet that my children would be carrying at least a bolt action .223 with a scope.
Report Post »cromag11b
Posted on July 14, 2011 at 2:34pmRead John Quincy Adams’ account of being a child during the revolution.
Report Post »Netsurfer2
Posted on July 14, 2011 at 12:50amWho’s to say, they won’t come after us next with the same weapons??? Our price we paid for drug dealers, criminals and ex government officials waging war against one another. What is next??? US???
Report Post »LAR15
Posted on July 14, 2011 at 12:18amThose are surplus NATO FN-FALs the boys are carrying. Excellent firearms.
I’d rather see the adults doing this type of work but when it comes down to it, it’s these kids future that is at stake.
Report Post »Miami
Posted on July 14, 2011 at 12:13amAhhh good old child labor, I wonder how long the liberals will back Obama’s war, maybe once we see evidence of slavery, systematic rape of women or even the killings of homosexuals.
Oh never mind all of that already happen as common place…
Why do Liberals’ support Obama on this?
Report Post »TH30PH1LUS
Posted on July 14, 2011 at 12:06amInvolving small children in combat will leave lifelong psychological scars on them. They are not equiped with the maturity to process the longterm ramifications of their own actions. Countries dominated by Islam have their social thermometer stuck in the Dark Ages.
Report Post »Miami
Posted on July 14, 2011 at 12:15amGee you think?
Report Post »SgtB
Posted on July 14, 2011 at 10:19amWrong, it depends entirely on what type of war they are fighting. If they are fighting a repressive government and are truly fighting for freedom against a tyrannical government (much like US circa 1770′s), then it is better to have them fight and win that freedom than to have them live under an oppressive regime. Unless you think living in a country where rights simply don’t exist is better than any possible emotional scarring from killing a man who seeks to take their rights away. Personally, I’d rather live with killing the man who wants take away my freedoms, but, I did spend 5 years in the Marines and spent a year of that teaching combat marksmanship. That said, children should never be used for a war of aggression, but being a Libertarian, I don’t think wars of aggression are ever good, no matter who is fighting it. But for defense of a nation or the people’s rights, total war is preferred and all bets are off.
Report Post »godhatesacoward
Posted on July 14, 2011 at 12:03amsorry omni that response was not directed toward you. not sure what’s up w/ tech. going on here.
Report Post »SilentReader
Posted on July 13, 2011 at 11:56pmIslam’s legacy to the world is death and destruction. And the world still looks on.
When will sanity return? When we stop aiding and abetting these frenzied Islamic killers who have no regard for life or liberty. Or their children.
Only sociopaths could make killers of their children.
Report Post »Miami
Posted on July 14, 2011 at 12:20amYou forgot drugs and rugs
Report Post »cromag11b
Posted on July 14, 2011 at 2:36pmShame we have all those military academies that take grade school age children in the US that we must obviously shut down.
Report Post »vtxphantom
Posted on July 13, 2011 at 11:50pmA moral people does not allow their children to go in harms way. Those people are as corrupt as their
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planetearthsovereigncitizen
Posted on July 15, 2011 at 12:36amBeing a moral people requires standing up for those morals, teaching your young to stand for those morals and how to protect themselves from immoral if ever left to stand alone. Be sure many of those children in that region will find themselves standing alone.
MTV teaches American kids what to stand for and who to vote for for that matter.
Learn marksmanship, teach your family marksmanship and the value of protecting life and liberty. I swore I would as a United States Marine from both foreign and domestic but I was taught by my father, a United States American.
Stand for something or fall for anything. My children will stand thank you!
Report Post »zoro51
Posted on July 13, 2011 at 11:41pmsome one KILL gadafi please this is BS…
Report Post »Goodgriefgeezlouise
Posted on July 14, 2011 at 1:00amWell I doubt if it will be one of these 7 yr olds.. So lemme get this straight.. Obama is helping to sponsor rebels that are kids? Why is this allowed? Ooops! I forgot.. He does whatever he wants.. My bad
Report Post »banjarmon
Posted on July 13, 2011 at 11:36pmIf you research this you will find little boys are being trained by all muslim forces and groups to fight and overpower anybody that does not believe the way they do. This is just a drop in the sea.
Report Post »Omnivore
Posted on July 13, 2011 at 11:36pmIt’s not about using kids, per se. It’s about whether the kids are being taught good principles.
Report Post »godhatesacoward
Posted on July 13, 2011 at 11:55pmdid you start your kids w/ ak’s or maybe a red rider, next step .22 marlin?
Report Post »Omnivore
Posted on July 13, 2011 at 11:35pmIt’s not about training kids. I do that. I started my kids handling firearms at the range at around age four or five. That’s an American tradition, and a good one.
So it comes down to the purpose, or principles you’re serving, doesn’t it?
If the kids are being trained to kill and sacrifice themselves for a tyrant, that’s the problem.
My kids are trained to be competent, safe, and to be able to defend themselves and defend liberty. Is that child abuse? I think not. I think it’s the proper, American thing to do.
Report Post »crabbyoldman
Posted on July 14, 2011 at 4:10amThe kids are fighting the tyrant.
Report Post »GBMBulletsSKNRD
Posted on July 13, 2011 at 11:23pmEnter the next wave of Jahadies or however the hell you want to spell it.
Report Post »Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
Posted on July 13, 2011 at 11:11pmUnderstand people, this is the worst kind of civil warfare; it is now a total war of annhilation with nothing being held back by either side on the ground. We have, according to Air Force Times online magazine articles air force and navy fighters in harms way for support of the rebels.
So when will ground troops commense landing, if they are not already there; the fact is with Sec. Hillary Clinton now making threats to the Assad government of Syria, then we may have TWO more wars on our hands in additon to Iraq, Yemen, Pakistan, Afghanistan, and anything else we are in without the people of America knowing it.
Report Post »fertlmind
Posted on July 13, 2011 at 11:27pmDear Leader Obamma promised no boots on the ground.
Report Post »Nobody in the news media has the balls to ask him if that included boots on our military flying aircraft, rowing boats, mushing dogsleds or any other means of waging modern warfare.
Obamma believes it isn’t really a lie if you just fail to tell the entire truth or the entire story,…
Just like Bill Clinton.
There is no honor, honesty, or transparency allowed in the current administration.
The real question everyone should be asking is “Why is Obamma involved in Libya?”
Since he only does things when they benefit Obamma, how does the war in Libya help him politically?
This is about Obamma,…not Libya
Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
Posted on July 14, 2011 at 12:05amFertlmind — as to why Mr Obama is in Libya I may have a few answers to that…
First is to have an excuse to break down our military even more, every war he gets us into works for his advantage in destroying them and our economy.
Second, most of the liquified natural gas enjoyed by Europe and especially Britian comes from the area of Tunisia, Libya and Algeria. Break Libya and you break that link. — Obama’s well established pathological hatered for all things British comes into play here.
Third, his socialist brothers of France desire the oil and gas for themselves.
Fourth, his allies in the Muslum Brotherhood desire Libya as part of the Caliphate again, not to mention as a source of revenue to support their expansionist plans.
Report Post »NormanDeArmond
Posted on July 13, 2011 at 11:11pmit is the same as in Palestine where Christian kids of like age are taught to make bombs of watermelons et catera. Obama and his Nato stooges are promoting a wicked bunch indeed!
Report Post »Psychosis
Posted on July 14, 2011 at 2:02amSHOW ME ONE LINK TO CHRISTIAN KIDS MAKING BOMBS ANYWHERE IN THE WORLD
your such a liar
Report Post »101
Posted on July 13, 2011 at 11:08pmAll weapons/guns courtesy of BO’s administration
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