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India-Pakistan
Taliban dupe 12-year-old into carrying bomb
2009-06-15
LAHORE: For a Rs 50 bill, Ishaq Khan, a 12-year-old schoolboy was asked to carry a bag to a busy bazaar in Kohat. As he proceeded, the bag exploded, throwing him to the ground, shattering one of his feet and leaving shoppers dead and injured all around him.

Under a new strategy, the Taliban have begun paying children to plant lethal bombs across Pakistan, a report in The Sunday Times said.
Rat bastards ...
Ishaq, who hails from a family that barely survives on the money his father earns painting houses, worked at the Orakzai bus stop to earn a few rupees a day by helping people to load buses. Two weeks ago a man approached him and offered him the money to leave the blue plastic bag in a crowded area between several shops.

“I was excited to get 50 rupees,” Ishaq said. “That’s more than I earn the whole week,” he told the paper. Pocketing the money, he proceeded to place the bag, thinking of ways to spend the bounty.
Posted by:Steve White

#1  What do Baitullah Mehsud and the Taliban who sent this kid have in common?
Posted by: Glenmore   2009-06-15 09:42  

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