Standing with his Kalashnikov AK-47 assault rifle in camouflage uniform and an ammunition belt, ‘Al-Chihuahua’ is barely taller than his machine gun, but his dwarfism hasn’t stopped him from joining the Syrian war.
Linked with Jabhat Al-Nusra group of Al-Qaeda, this mini militant is fighting the Assad regime and the Islamic State.
Editor-in-Chief of Al-Masdar News, Leith Abou Fadel, shared his images on twitter. Abou Fadel also nicknamed him ‘Abu Ahmad Al-Chihuahua’.
Jabhat Al-Nusra has been fighting regime forces for several years and is part of a powerful rebel alliance called the Army of Conquest and controls Idlib province in Syria.
It has been revealed that British film director, Lucas Kinney’s son is the first white British convert to emerge in Syria. He has starred in two propaganda videos posted online under the nom de guerre Abu Basir al-Britani.
He took holy communion at a Roman Catholic church as a Home Counties schoolboy and attended Catholic primary and secondary schools. As a teenager, he even spoke of being a priest.
His father, Patrick, worked closely on films including Indiana Jones And The Last Crusade and was assistant director on a long series of blockbusters.