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| ISIS boy ‘suicide bomber’ surrenders in Iraq |
| 2014-12-28 |
| [ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET]A 14-year-old Syrian boy, clad in a vest lined with explosives, turned himself in to Iraqi authorities as he defected from the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria militant group, the New York Times reported. Usaid Barbo walked up to a Shiite mosque in Baghdad’s neighborhood of Baiya that he had been ordered to target in a suicide attack. “I opened up my jacket and said, ‘I have a suicide vest, but I don’t want to blow myself up,’” he said in an interview with the New York Times conducted in a secret Iraqi intelligence site where he is currently held. |
| Posted by:Fred |