Posted on 09/21/2006 2:50:20 PM PDT by presidio9
BAGHDAD, Iraq In America, six-year-olds are usually in first grade. In Iraq, some are being recruited by militias.
That's what U-S soldiers say is going on in Baghdad's Sadr City neighborhood, the stronghold of a radical cleric.
The militias are assembling gangs of as many as 100 children, some as young as six or seven. Their mission: to throw gasoline bombs and stones at passing U-S convoys. The hope is that the troops will be lured into sniper ambushes.
The soldiers say they've seen young men with bandanas covering their faces, talking to kids before such incidents. Sometimes the children are given slingshots.
An aide to the cleric denies it. But soldiers say there's no mistaking what's going on. And they say they're not firing back because, as one lieutenant puts it, a single round fired anywhere near a gang of children would be "like the shot heard 'round the world."
Hey! That s just like how the peaceloving Palestinians do it!
For Islam, the children are NOT the future.
That, or if they shoot back, a FAUXtographer is just waiting for the much-awaited "tragedy".
Duplicate post, I believe.
I wish there were an auto-check feature at FR that would check the text of the article against others already posted. Then, the potential duplicate poster would be alerted to the similar article.
Sometimes there are actually new bits to an evolving story. But methinks this one is just a straight repeat. Too bad we don't have an auto-check feature.
(For the consideration of the Admin Mod if they're reading.)
I always do a search but somtimes this happens as individual organizations often insert their own headline. In any case, this article is worthy of notice. Do you have a link to the original thread?
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