Posted on 07/02/2009 2:56:13 AM PDT by Scanian
Pakistan's top Taliban leader, Baitullah Mehsud, is buying children as young as 7 to serve as suicide bombers in the growing spate of attacks against Pakistani, Afghan and U.S. targets, U.S. Defense Department and Pakistani officials say.
A Pakistani official, who spoke on the condition that he not be named because of the sensitive nature of the topic, said the going price for child bombers was $7,000 to $14,000 - huge sums in Pakistan, where per-capita income is about $2,600 a year.
"[Mehsud] has turned suicide bombing into a production output, not unlike [the way] Toyota outputs cars," a U.S. Defense Department official told reporters recently. He spoke on the condition that he not be named because of ongoing intelligence efforts to catch Mehsud, a prime target for a U.S. and Pakistani anti-Taliban campaign.
An apparent U.S. effort to kill Mehsud last week failed. On Sunday, the Pakistani government offered a reward of about $615,300 for information leading to the capture of Mehsud, dead or alive. The U.S. State Department has offered a bounty of $5 million for Mehsud, who is thought to be hiding in the tribal areas near the Afghan border.
Suicide bombings have become frequent in Pakistan in the past year, including high-profile attacks on hotels frequented by Westerners, as well as on Pakistani police and military installations. There has also been a spate of such attacks directed at U.S.-led forces in Afghanistan.
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Amazing 0buma hasn’t thought of this...
Why this is just a “right wing conspiracy” to sabotage his coddling terrorist and alienating our allies. When we are friends with terrorists, they'll leave us alone and live happily ever after. You see, 911 was all our fault. Rosie O'Donnell knows that the U.S. government was who attacked us. Right?
Heavy sarcasm
He has... ACORN, AMERICORPS
If you translate the ration of price to annual income and work it in US dollars for US citizens, you might find buyers in this country. No doubt you would.
Perverted, crazy and evil is what this is. But they are paying top dollar. They might consider having their very own children bomber farms and grow them and cut out the middle man or woman. Would be cost effective as I am convinced this is a fifty year effort on their part.
He’d rather murder babies so we will reduce our “carbon footprint”. Now he’s after the elderly with health care rationing. He disguises his evil as “compassionate” and “cost effective”.
ANd another thing. These Taliban separate the children, the boys, from their Mothers around age five and they go live with the fathers who have little attachment to the Mothers.
So they already have a supply of young boys with no Mothering influence and heavy Fathering influence Add Madrassas and I am surprised they have to buy children.
But I guess they don’t use their own who may be exempt.
Also the fahers often like to molest their sons.
I hear eBay has ties with Obama, so probably eBay will be setting up auctions for the Taliban...
So are they just “Misunderstood?” Are they really “oppressed?” Are they driven to it by the evil great satan?
Or are they just subhuman savages acting in 100% opposition to human nature because they are members of an inhuman death cult?
Answer obvious.
Buy them? Not bad, down in Durham NC you can only rent them by the hour.
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