‘I am alive and well chilling in Istanbul having a martini:’ Rogue U.S. Army veteran fighting for Syrian rebels confirms he is ALIVE after pro-Assad group posts video claiming he’s been killed

Daily Mail:

By Hayley Peterson

PUBLISHED: 16:15 GMT, 15 March 2013 | UPDATED: 21:35 GMT, 15 March 2013

A U.S. Army veteran who was fighting for Syrian rebel forces says he is alive and well after a pro-Syrian government group posted a video on YouTube claiming that he had been killed.The bloodied face of someone resembling Eric Harroun, 30, of Phoenix, was shown in the video, which was posted Wednesday under the title, ‘Terrorists, including American Extremist “Eric Harroun” Have Been Terminated.’

But Harroun told MailOnline from his personal email account on Friday that ‘Syrian Media must be smoking something, because I am alive and well chilling in Istanbul having a martini at the moment.’

MailOnline obtained Harroun’s email address from a family member and has communicated with him in the past using the same email address.

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Eric Harroun (right), a 30-year-old U.S. Army veteran from Pheonix, has joined al Qaeda alias Jabhat Al-Nusra after months of fighting with Syrian rebelsEric Harroun (right), a 30-year-old U.S. Army veteran from Phoenix, has joined al Qaeda alias Jabhat al-Nusra after months of fighting with Syrian rebels

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5 Replies to “‘I am alive and well chilling in Istanbul having a martini:’ Rogue U.S. Army veteran fighting for Syrian rebels confirms he is ALIVE after pro-Assad group posts video claiming he’s been killed”

  1. He is a Moslem, he was injured while in one of the two fronts we are fighting on and then converted after his discharge, there is a previous post about him, check it out.

  2. Having a martini is not the Muslim way. If he is a Muslim then he’s obviously one of the stupid converts who doesn’t understand what Islam is really about, a useful idiot fighting for the Muslim rebels. He has no beard either.
    What an idiot. There’s a lot of them about these days!