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Posted on 07/04/2008 11:26:46 PM PDT by FocusNexus
Al Qaeda has successfully established a network for recruiting boys as young as 12 from across central Asia as it seeks new volunteers to enlarge its team of prospective suicide bombers and militants fighters, senior security officials from the Middle East have revealed to CBS News.
News of al Qaeda venturing into the former Soviet central Asian republics with a population that has a largely Muslim heritage marks a significant addition to reports earlier this year that the hardline group had recruited young boys in the Pak-Afghan border region.
Last May, a senior Pakistani security official showed a rare video clip to CBS News documenting a boy, barely 12 years old, using a machete to severe the head of a middle-aged man whom militants probably suspected as being a spy for the U.S.
In an execution which typified the Taliban brand of quick justice, that boy severed the head of his victim who was completely tied up and thrown on the ground as a crowd of hundreds of spectators cheered.
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ROP.....Just doin what comes natural...
ADNKRONOS.com (AKI): Baghdad - "IRAQ: CHILD TERRORISTS BEHIND GROWING NUMBER OF ATTACKS" (ARTICLE SNIPPET: "The Iraqi army has noted a rise in attacks carried out by children or women from 2007 to 2008. In the last year they are believed to have carried out at least 16 suicide attacks and 200 other bomb attacks.") (June 13, 2008)
Those we call children: In the US, a child is legally anyone under the age of 18, under current law. In other countries, the age of majority may be different. It is true that during WWII, some young men lied about their age and served in combat in the military at ages less than 18, but 1. They had to lie to join and 2. They also had to appear big enough and mature enough to get away with the lie. In US wars prior to WWII, there may have also been American combatants who were under 18, but they were also the exception.
Additionally, I am struck by the similarities of Al Queda recruiting 12 year olds for combat with the current stories of sex offenders recruiting 12 year olds for illicit sex. I suspect that AQ and sexual perverts have a lot in common. (ie - no morals, no decency, etc.)
The punishment needs to go to the adults that raised these kids. When kids are young enough, a responsible adult needs to not preach hate themselves and warn the children that outside forces might try to encourage them to do stupid stuff. What is wrong with those folks. I suspect low IQ’s and religious brainwashing.
More practitioners of human sacrifice. Lovely.
I'll just post this instead...
It tells me that Al Qaeda is nearing its end and getting desperate. At the end of WWII the Germans were conscripting boys as young as 14 to fight on the lines because their ranks were so depleted. It’s dispicable but it should also give us confidence that we are nearing the end for this gang of thugs.
Recruitment or kidnapping?
What... but isn’t this the religion of peace and tolerance...I don’t understand... I NEVER SAW THIS ONE COMING!!!
/sarc
AQ must be running out of volunteers and now have to con kids, women and the mentally ill into becoming unwitting soldiers for the cause.
In a similar vein, kids in Africa are stolen from their families, hooked on drugs and taught to kill without remorse. It seems that the the 3rd world is a cesspool for this type of activity. Odd how the do gooders aren’t complaining much about this.
They abuse children verbally, emotionally and physically turning them into angry people, then teach them to direct their anger at Christians and Jews. I don’t see how there can be negotiation with those people.
You need some stealth tech cause you’re sure on the Mod’s radar, wow.
jihad bump
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