Child turned down by Al-Qaeda linked group dies shooting for Reuters in Syria

Teen turned down by Al-Qaeda linked group dies shooting for Reuters in Syria — duckrabbit

(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).