Saudi confirms he took sons to Syria to fight

A Saudi father has confirmed his ex-wife’s accusations that he had smuggled his two little sons to join the war in Syria by sending her a picture of them with their weapons and telling her consider them as “birds in paradise”.

The picture, published in Ajel and other Saudi newspapers, showed the bearded man hugging his two sons, aged 10 and 11 years, as they clutched their guns and holding up their finger, indicating they have joined the infamous militant Daesh group.

The picture showed one the two boys carried the famous Russian-built Kalashnikov assault rifle while one of them clutched a grenade by the other hand.

“Consider your sons as birds in paradise,” their father told his wife in an e-mail which included their photograph just four days after he crossed the Turkish border into Syria.

The man did not mention his whereabouts but the slogan behind him showed he and his sons had joined Daesh in North Syria.

His words to his ex-wife also meant in Islam that she should expect them to fall as martyrs in the war against the Syrian regime.

Last week, the mother said her sons Abdullah and Ahmed Al Shayeq went missing and accused their father of taking them to conflict-battered Syria.

Saudi ambassador in Turkey, Adel Mirdad, said the embassy had contacted the Turkish foreign ministry to help locate the two boys and bring them back.

The Saudi ‘Al Arabiya’ news network quoted the mother as saying their father smuggled her sons to Syria to fight along with the opposition forces to “burn her heart for them and take revenge against her following their separation.”

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