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| Afghanistan |
| Taliban recruiting nine-year-old suicide bombers from Pakistain |
| 2011-05-17 |
| Police seized a nine-year-old and three others aged between 12 and 14 as they tried to cross into eastern Afghanistan. The child bombers are often lied to, brainwashed, or coerced inside Pakistan and have been responsible for several deadly bombings in recent months. The boys had been given amulets containing verses from the Koran which they were told would protect them from the explosion. On their return, they would be hailed as heroes and their parents would be guaranteed entry into heaven. Ghulam Farooq, the nine-year-old, said: "Our mullah told us that when we carried out our suicide attacks, all the people around us would die, but we would stay alive." Lotfullah Mashal, spokesman for the National Directorate of Security (NDS), said the four had been captured at the Torkham border crossing trying to pass into Nangahar province. He said: "In the past we have had suicide attackers from Waziristan and Bajaur, but this is the first time we have arrested child suicide attackers from the settled areas of Pakistan ... They are brainwashed and shown films on mobile phones about supposed atrocities. "They were told there were rapes and the Koran was being burned by Americans. They were told Kabul had become a Western city, there was no Islam there and whoever went to blow himself up there would go to heaven." |
| Posted by:Nimble Spemble |
| #4 I wondered how a 9 year old would conceptualize rape, then remembered whom and where, the boy likely has clear idea. BTW, putting korn versus in an amulet to be blown up, isn't that, like, burning it? |
| Posted by: swksvolFF 2011-05-17 17:19 |
| #3 They must be running low on volunteers to start using nine year olds? More proof that the war is carried out in the wrong country! |
| Posted by: Black Bart Phuling7750 2011-05-17 08:06 |
| #2 Ghulam Farooq, the nine-year-old, said: "Our mullah told us that when we carried out our suicide attacks, all the people around us would die, but we would stay alive." How is THIS not a crime against humanity? Mike |
| Posted by: Mike Kozlowski 2011-05-17 07:23 |
| #1 See also DAILY TIMES.PK > [post-Osama/Abbottabad] AL-QAEDA "CADRES" STILL HELP AFGHAN TALIBAN. Coalition Commander believes there are roughly 100 AQ or less remaining in Afghanistan, but are remaining active in Afghan insurgency despite the death of Osama Bin Laden. |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2011-05-17 01:35 |