Libyan teenager drops Wii for gun to join rebels
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CAIRO — “I just hope they show me how to use a gun,” said the London teenager as he prepared to join rebels in his native Libya fighting to overthrow strongman Moamer Kadhafi.
Sam shifts nervously from foot to foot, his hands gently chopping the air as if to emphasize what motivated him to quit his marketing degree in London, leave his friends behind and head to the frontlines in the Libyan desert.
“I just couldn’t sit there and watch the news, I was going mad. I felt I had to do something, you know whatta mean?” he said in a London accent full of glottal stops and double negatives.
After getting his parents’ approval last week, Sam left for Egypt, where he joined a middle-aged businessman and an older doctor — each with their own past — to cross the border into eastern Libya, get some military training and join the fight..... MORE
Source: The Daily Tribune
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