We all saw the little Syrian boy in besieged Aleppo, wiping blood from his forehead, covered in dust and clearly in shock. How could we help it? Practically every newspaper in the country printed his photo, along with a caption blaming the Syrian military and/or the Russians for his plight. The video is all over the Internet. By the way, little Omran Dagnish is still alive, and is fine physically. But there's another little boy, a prepubescent child, who hasn't been dignified with a name, who is also a victim of this war – and he's dead, beheaded by US-backed Islamist rebels of the "al-Zenki" movement. And the rebels didn't try to hide this atrocity: they filmed it and put it on the Internet.

These are the people who are defending Aleppo, the rebels we are being told are fighting for "freedom" against the regime of Bashar al-Assad and those dastardly Russians.