{"id":58864,"date":"2015-03-23T11:51:21","date_gmt":"2015-03-23T15:51:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=58864"},"modified":"2015-03-23T11:51:21","modified_gmt":"2015-03-23T15:51:21","slug":"brett-felton-hardcore-christian-returns-to-iraq","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=58864","title":{"rendered":"Brett Felton; “hardcore Christian” returns to Iraq"},"content":{"rendered":"

According to CBS News<\/a>, Brett Felton served in Iraq with the 10th Mountain Division, 2nd Battalion, 14th Infantry Regiment until he left the service in 2007. Now, he has returned with the sole mission of helping Iraqi Christians to defend themselves against ISIS<\/p>\n

“If you look at him, he’s literally all tattooed out like a biker,” [60 Minutes producer Jeff] Newton told 60 Minutes Overtime. “But if you look really closely at his tattoos, they’re like Jesus Christ crying blood tears out of his eyes and stuff like that –so he’s kind of a hardcore Christian.”<\/p>\n

[…]<\/p>\n

Like many veterans, Felton says he wanted to return to Iraq as soon as he arrived home. A few months ago, he managed to slip back into the country from Lebanon, where he was studying abroad. <\/p>\n

[…]<\/p>\n

Some Christians in the region were forced to convert to Islam by ISIS attackers. Many had fled. But a few Christian men decided to stay behind and form fledgling militias to save their villages. Few of these men are professional soldiers, say Logan and Newton.<\/p>\n

“They’re under-funded. They don’t have good weapons. They’re completely outgunned by the Islamic State,” says Lara Logan. “When you’re with them, you have this terrible feeling that many of them would be massacred if the Islamic State really turned its attention to taking back those those villages.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Thanks to T Breezy for the link.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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