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Syria: US-backed militants try to deflect blame for beheading boy

US-ARMED terrorist leaders in Syria tried to distance themselves yesterday from their foot soldiers’ brutal beheading of a Palestinian refugee child.

Their denials came as the US State Department hinted that it might halt arms shipments to its head-chopping proxy forces.

Video emerged on Tuesday of members of Harakat Nour al-Din al-Zinki taunting the boy before severing his head with a knife in the back of their pick-up truck.

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