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(please note when this post was first published it was widely reported that Barakat was seventeen. Reuters did nothing to…
via duckrabbit: http://duckrabbit.info/blog/2013/12/child-turned-down-by-al-queda-dies-shooting-for-reuters-in-syria/
Reuters did report that not only was Molhem Barakat a photographer on their books but also an ‘activist’. According to the reporter Hannah Lucinda Smith, Molhem was an ‘aspiring suicide bomber‘ who tried to join an Al-Qaeda offshoot earlier this year but was turned down for being unsuitable (Molem’s name is changed in her article).