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Family distraught as Irish lad runs off to join rebels in Syria

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  • #62
    BeerWolf
    Registered Users Posts: 4,122 ✭✭✭BeerWolf


    Conmaicne Mara wrote: »
    Fair play to him for having the courage of his convictions. The end result, or what group he'll join up with might not be so good but I have to admire the sense of adventure.

    Off to kill people, an adventure ? Sure you're using the right wording there? :o


  • #63
    conorhal
    Registered Users Posts: 6,983 ✭✭✭conorhal


    neamhspleachi wrote: »
    He's willing to risk his life for something he believes in, right or wrong

    How many of us posters on Boards have the courage to follow our own convictions to such an extent?

    Pat on the back for Hitler so? Another chap with the courage of his convictions!


  • #64
    MRnotlob606
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,642 ✭✭✭MRnotlob606


    hes like a derry che guevara


  • #65
    neamhspleachi
    Closed Accounts Posts: 347 ✭✭neamhspleachi


    conorhal wrote: »
    Pat on the back for Hitler so? Another chap with the courage of his convictions!
    Hitler, a great lad...the peoples car, motorways etc.

    Didn't realise he was so into road trips until he set out for Russia :pac:


  • #66
    _Redzer_
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,056 ✭✭✭_Redzer_


    I feel bad for the family, but it's natural selection. If he gets himself killed he's the idiot that knew what he was getting himself into, knew the danger and did it anyway.


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  • #67
    Karl Stein
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,689 ✭✭✭Karl Stein


    Foxhound38 wrote: »
    What do ye make of this, AH?

    Pic 5 is the best because it has lovely bread in it.

    A vendor sells Naem during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan in Al-Medan district in Damascus. Naem, a Syrian speciality made during Ramadan, is made of fried bread with grape syrup drizzled on it.


  • #68
    scamalert
    Registered Users Posts: 3,739 ✭✭✭scamalert


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  • #69
    SEPT 23 1989
    Registered Users Posts: 43,024 ✭✭✭✭SEPT 23 1989


    To compare these w@nkers to the men who went up against Hitler is an insult to all of them


  • #70
    wendell borton
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,336 ✭✭✭wendell borton


    Grayson wrote: »
    Fighting Assad isn't a bad cause to sign up for. He's a brutal dictator.

    the problem is that the opposition like ISIS aren't any better.

    These groups have a horrific history, they seem to spring up where ever there is conflict to carry out vile sadistic acts under a veener of Islam.


  • #71
    Maximus Alexander
    Registered Users Posts: 13,080 ✭✭✭✭Maximus Alexander


    It sounds to me like he's got a screw loose.


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  • #72
    PLUG71
    Registered Users Posts: 640 ✭✭✭PLUG71


    should be banned from coming back into the country!


  • #73
    bear1
    Registered Users Posts: 12,811 ✭✭✭✭bear1


    Maximus Alexander wrote: »
    It sounds to me like he's got a screw loose.

    He'll have his head loose if he gets caught alive.


  • #74
    Conmaicne Mara
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,543 ✭✭✭Conmaicne Mara


    BeerWolf wrote: »
    Off to kill people, an adventure ? Sure you're using the right wording there? :o

    People die in wars. Yes, it is an adventure. The wording is correct. Similar to but not the same as many who went to fight in other foreign wars from this island they did so for their own personal, political, religious, or economic reasons.


  • #75
    arybvtcw0eolkf
    Closed Accounts Posts: 24,878 ✭✭✭✭arybvtcw0eolkf


    SpaceTime wrote: »
    In the event that he were to attack Irish troops, could that not be seen as 'waging war against the state' ?.
    FunLover18 wrote: »
    I don't think so. The Irish troops are part of a UN force.

    ^^^This.

    Although we wear the tricolor on our shoulder we serve under a UN flag and an attack on us is not a declaration of war against the ROI.

    Someone asked would we respond in kind (to an attack), the answer is yes. Our troops are routinely attacked and our rules of engagement permit us to return effective fire.


  • #76
    Funkfield
    Registered Users Posts: 1,602 ✭✭✭Funkfield


    Foxhound38 wrote: »
    Why did they picture him on a horse? What the fcuk good can a horse do against morter rounds and chemical weapons?

    That's not a recent photo. That's from the families trip to Bundoran last Summer. It was all the Indo could get their hands on.


  • #77
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 6,025 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    someone probably bought him a keffiyeh ( black and white scarf) and a green canvas schoolbag as a teenager and he felt if was his destiny

    :cool:


  • #78
    KungPao
    Registered Users Posts: 4,781 ✭✭✭KungPao


    Idiot.

    If he's lucky he'll be blown to smithereens. If not so lucky, He'll end up in front of a camera in front of a load of lads shouting crazy religious crap in Arabic, and will soon have a real pain in his neck.


  • #79
    Nodin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 46,938 ✭✭✭✭Nodin


    BeerWolf wrote: »
    Joining a group that truly love their beheadings, I'd say screw him tbh. He'll most likely end up featured on LiveLeak.


    Theres no evidence as to what group he joined. If that's what he wants to do, as long as he doesn't join up with some religious nuts, fair play to him.


  • #80
    Joe prim
    Registered Users Posts: 919 ✭✭✭Joe prim


    Foxhound38 wrote: »
    Why did they picture him on a horse? What the fcuk good can a horse do against morter rounds and chemical weapons?

    The worst part is, he's up on that horse with no safety helmet, has he any idea of the risk he's running? BTW, I do hope the horse will be OK.


  • #81
    Lone Stone
    Registered Users Posts: 3,405 ✭✭✭Lone Stone


    Ugh i have some good mates who are Muslims i hope none of them end up heading off to take part in this ****e. I hope they wouldnt but some times they say some things and it makes me stop and think they are mental.


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  • #82
    Nodin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 46,938 ✭✭✭✭Nodin


    Joe prim wrote: »
    The worst part is, he's up on that horse with no safety helmet, has he any idea of the risk he's running? BTW, I do hope the horse will be OK.


    No, he'll do that thing where you lean over one side of the horse, and that way they can't shoot him. It'll be grand.


  • #83
    GottaGetGatt
    Registered Users Posts: 2,133 ✭✭✭GottaGetGatt


    A selfish idiot.


  • #84
    whisky_galore
    Registered Users Posts: 15,731 ✭✭✭✭whisky_galore


    Joe prim wrote: »
    The worst part is, he's up on that horse with no safety helmet, has he any idea of the risk he's running? BTW, I do hope the horse will be OK.

    No objection, as long as he's not making it haul a sulky around the place.


  • #85
    Maphisto
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,014 ✭✭✭Maphisto


    I obviously don't get out much but I thought everyone was predominantly Prod (atheist) or RCC (atheist) - when did every other person become a Muslim.


  • #86
    John_D80
    Registered Users Posts: 3,539 ✭✭✭John_D80


    Fck it, fair play to him. There's Fck all work here for young lads so it's good to see a fella getting off his hole and taking a grip of himself. Syria could be the new Australia in a few years. Them rebels are only crying out for lads to join up.


  • #87
    smurfjed
    Registered Users Posts: 10,030 ✭✭✭✭smurfjed


    Syria appears to have a mixture of Sunni, Shi'ite, Ismailis, Alawite Moslems and Christians..... so who and what has he gone to fight for?


  • #88
    Davarus Walrus
    Registered Users Posts: 1,280 ✭✭✭Davarus Walrus


    Some young Nordie's still believe in the glory of blood sacrifice and dying for your convictions. It's something that the Republican leadership tapped into during the troubles, and even back to the time of P Pearse. He probably isn't the smartest tool in the box and believes in revolution, armed conflict and glorious revolution.


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