A new and really, really gross problem has popped up for western powers seeking to aid the rebels trying to overthrow Syria’s Bashar al-Assad:  One of the rebels made a video of himself eating the heart of a fallen Syrian soldier.  Warning, gruesome video after the click-through!

The video shows a rebel identified as Khaled al-Hamad, nicknamed Abu Sakkar, a founder of the rebel Farouq Brigade.  Sakkar is well-known to journalists in the region.  He is seen standing over the corpse of a Syrian Soldier, and he cuts into it.

“I swear to God we will eat your hearts and your livers, you soldiers of Bashar the dog,” Abu Sakkar says to off-screen cheers of his comrades shouting "Allahu Akbar (God is great)!!" 

And then he cuts out the guy’s heart and eats it.

Human Rights Watch says a longer version of the video that has not been publicly circulated includes a slur against the minority Shiite sect to which Assad belongs.  The rebels are largely rival Sunni Muslims.

The Syrian Opposition Coalition is strongly condemning what it called the “horrific and inhumane” act, and promising the perpetrator would be brought to justice.

But Human Rights Watch wants the U.N. Security Council to bring the matter up as a war crime to the International Criminal Court.

In recent days, UK Prime Minister David Cameron said he wanted to step up non-lethal aid to the Syrian Rebels, and US Secretary of State John Kerry spoke of plans to ease the way to an opposition government after Bashar al-Assad leaves office, one way or the other.