In a lengthy Facebook post this week, someone who evidence suggests is Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s 11-year-old son denounced the U.S. and pledged to fight to the death to remain “in our holy land.”
The diatribe was posted Wednesday by an account using the name Hafez Assad, according to Gawker. While the Facebook page is no longer accessible, media outlets were able to obtain screenshots before it was taken down.
Hafez begins with an account of waiting for news about possible attacks. “12 hours we waited [for an attack] … 48 hours they said, we’re waiting,” the author writes in English before daring the U.S. to take its best shot at the civil war-torn nation. “No one has soldiers like the ones we do in Syria. … America doesn’t have soldiers, what it has is some cowards with new technology who claim themselves liberators.”
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