Posted on 06/23/2007 8:38:34 AM PDT by DogByte6RER
NATO Accuses Taliban of Using Children in Suicide Missions
· Troops say bomb defused on six-year-old boy
· Claim follows 13 civilian deaths in air strike
Chiade O'Shea Islamabad
Saturday June 23, 2007
The Guardian
Children as young as six are being used by the Taliban in increasingly desperate suicide missions, coalition forces in Afghanistan claimed yesterday.
The International Security Assistance Force (ISAF), to which Britain contributes 5,000 troops in southern Afghanistan, revealed that soldiers defused an explosive vest which had been placed on a six-year-old who had been told to attack Afghan army forces in the east of the country.
The boy was spotted after appearing confused at a checkpoint. The vest was defused and no one was hurt.
The claim came only hours after the second report this week that civilians had been killed in Nato military operations.
Nine women, three babies and the mullah of a local mosque died alongside 20 suspected Taliban militants after an air strike, Helmand's police chief, Mohammad Hussein Andiwal, said.
The air strike had been launched in response to an attack on Nato troops by militants near the town of Gereshk. An estimated 120 people have been killed in recent weeks, including seven schoolboys who died in a US air strike on Sunday.
Yesterday ISAF said it was investigating reports from the Afghan authorities that civilians had been killed. But it also accused the Taliban of using civilians as battleground cover, and said the incident with the boy signalled a new type of tactic. The boy had been ordered to target a check point in Miri, in the Andar district of Ghazni province.
"They placed explosives on a six-year-old boy and told him to walk up to the Afghan police or army and push the button,"
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Somehow I think that these Islamofascist Taliban scum are willing to sink even much lower.
Islam has a long history of using six-year-old children for its own purposes. After all the "Prophet" Muhammad used six-year-old Alysha for his own purposes...
And from the UN ... Anyone? ... Bueller?
These people should have their children taken from them.
MEOW (Mid East Organization of Women) should be outraged by this. /sarcasm
Nope, Both my wife and daughter know how to shoot.
monsters.
· Troops say bomb defused on six-year-old boy
· Claim follows 13 civilian deaths in air strike
Gotta love the Guardian. (Not!) "Claim" follows "civilian deaths". So the deaths are incontrovertible but the bomb is just a "claim"? And how does the one "follow" the other? Does every act of jihadist treachery "follow" some incident of allied imperfection?
Yes...I agree with you.
I know all about The Guardain.
I couldn’t find this same story yet on the other newswires so I had to go with it.
Thanks,
L
Bullies are cowards. Filthy cowards. Like any ‘man’ who beats on women. Filthy stinking rotten cowards. I don’t care what religion (or not) such scum belong to. And these people typify the cowardly bully. Lower than any animal. Shove pork fat down their throats and hang them.
Remember fat Rosie said:”don’t call them terrorists,they have children too.”
Islam proves evolution — reverse evolution. Reptiles care for their young better than these beasts.
where’s America’s criminal liberal media on this???
You Go Grl! Kick their a@@!
This calls for diplomatic resolution at the highest levels before it becomes serious.
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