Posted on 06/13/2009 1:29:43 PM PDT by Schnucki
On his face is an angelic smile, in his pocket a blood-stained 50-rupee note. Ishaq Khan, a 12-year-old schoolboy, was given the money – equivalent to just 40p – to carry a bag to a spot in a busy bazaar in Kohat, a town in the North West Frontier Province of Pakistan.
As he walked away, the bag exploded, throwing him to the ground with a shattered foot and leaving shoppers dead and wounded all around him.
In a macabre new tactic, Taliban militants have begun paying children to plant lethal bombs in Pakistani cities. Ishaq, who comes from a poor family that barely survives on the money his father earns from house-painting jobs, had been working at the Orakzai bus stop of the city’s main Terah Bazaar, earning a few rupees a day by helping people to load lorries and buses.
Two weeks ago a man with a moustache but no beard approached him and offered him the note to leave a blue plastic bag in a crowded area between several shops.
“I was excited to get 50 rupees,” said Ishaq. “That’s more than I earn the whole week.”
He picked up the bag and pocketed the money, enjoying the feel of it as he thought about whether he might spend it on a rare treat such as an ice-cold Coca-Cola, or take it home to his mother. The bag was of plastic sacking of the type used to carry sugar, and was not heavy.
“I put it down, turned back and had not walked 20 steps when there was a big blast and I was thrown,” he said. “I don’t remember what happened then.”
When he woke up he was in Kohat hospital with the other victims of the blast. The 50-rupee note was still in his pocket,
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Such brave “fighters”.
A religion of pieces...
Ragheads are cowards. No surprise here.
It’s a culture and religion that celebrates death rather than life. There is no moral equivalency and shame on our POTUS for suggesting such.
All of this for about $0.80.
This is nothing new. We have seen them use young women and a Down’s Syndrome boy as human bombs, and have routinely planted explosives and booby traps into the bodies of people they have beheaded and left by the side of the road. They wait until the police get there, and blow up the body.
And we want to read SCUM like this their Miranda rights? I think we should have bullets with their Miranda rights etched on it that we can insert directly into their heads.
Scum.
Evil. There’s no other word for it.
Ditto.
Less. $0.65 at current rates.
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