{"id":54628,"date":"2014-08-19T08:00:13","date_gmt":"2014-08-19T12:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=54628"},"modified":"2014-08-18T18:54:39","modified_gmt":"2014-08-18T22:54:39","slug":"hezbollah-lowers-age-for-enlistment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=54628","title":{"rendered":"Hezbollah lowers age for enlistment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/thisainthell\/3372613763\/in\/set-72157615765467360\/player\/\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen oallowfullscreen msallowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/hezbollah-lowers-fighting-age-takes-islamic-state-165800318.html\">The Christian Science Monitor<\/a> reports that the terrorist group Hezbollah has lowered the age that they&#8217;ll now accept for folks shipping out from Lebanon to Syria. That new age &#8220;limit&#8221; is 16 years old. <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Lebanon\u2019s militant Shiite Hezbollah organization has begun sending fighters as young as 16 to the battlefields of Syria, an indication that the Shiite army is being stretched between fighting Sunni jihadis in Syria and a desire to keep a cutting edge in reserve for a possible future showdown with Israel.<\/p>\n<p>Until now, Hezbollah had required fighters to be at least 18 years of age. The lowering of the age restriction could indicate that the Iran-backed party is feeling hard pressed as its cadres fight from Aleppo in north Syria to Deraa Province in the south, as well as dispatching advisers and trainers to the new battlegrounds of Iraq.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Pretty despicable, huh? Even more so when you realize that they&#8217;re holding back their more experienced fighters in order to fight the Israelis. So many enemies, so small a pool of enlistees.<\/p>\n<p>That flag in the picture at the top of the post is a Hezbollah flag that I saw at an ANSWER protest back in 2009 in DC. I wonder how proud the hippies are of Hezbollah now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Christian Science Monitor reports that the terrorist group Hezbollah has lowered the age that they&#8217;ll &hellip; <a title=\"Hezbollah lowers age for enlistment\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=54628\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Hezbollah lowers age for enlistment<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-54628","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-terror-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54628","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=54628"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54628\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=54628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=54628"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=54628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}