Posted on 07/02/2009 3:17:53 PM PDT by NorwegianViking
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....(cut) 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.
The U.S. official said the price depends on how quickly the bomber is needed and how close the child is expected to get to the target.
"[Mehsud] produces these suicide bombers, which are sold or bartered, which can be used by [Afghan Taliban leader Mullah] Omar's Taliban or ... other groups," the U.S. official said.
In some cases, he said, the children are kidnapped and then sold to Mehsud.
Using child suicide bombers "is the grim reality of the Taliban Frankenstein that now threatens to overwhelm the Pakistani state," said Bruce Riedel, a Brookings Institution scholar who chaired a review of Pakistan-Afghanistan strategy for President Obama.
Efforts to reach a spokesman for Mehsud were not successful.
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I never thought Islam was a religion of peace. I have never seen any indication that they are anything but animals.
The sad fact is we are losing the WAR because our idiot bureaucrats refuse to admit that we are engaged in a religious war. The sad fact is that in a religious war the only time there is a winner is when the other side is totally eradicated.
They are doing a good job of eliminating us.
Cultural Suicide in progress!
Those wacky diaper-heads !
Remember when they were raping other moslems, women AND men, to shame them into committing suicide as suicide bombers?
If it weren’t so sick, it would be hilarious!
Recruiting office? No, just rape 10 guys until they’re depressed enough to kill themselves, and there’s your recruits!
What a rich cultural tapestry.
I’m glad our president, Omoslem, belongs to their “faith” (aka death cult).
Interesting comparison: some guy bombs an abortion clinic and the left wants to paint the picture that ALL Christians are evil killers and haters. Even though other Christians come forward and denounce the act, the left wants to label all Christians as bigots and haters. But, some Muslim faction recruits children for death and not only does the left remain silent, but I don’t hear the so-called “mainstream” Muslims repudiate this evil. Part of the reason is that Muslim factions are as willing to kill other Muslim factions as they are Christians.
They are really cheap in the Phillipines.
But then you have to pay shipping....
Careful the truth sometimes doesn't set well with the oh, so socially un-conservatives on this site.
Those muslim kids, they blow up so fast.
“Muslim factions are as willing to kill other Muslim factions as they are Christians.”——
A very convincing statement!
They should offer the Octo-Mom a gig.
Hehehehehe...she could be a mentor or something.
They are learning from the Palestinians.
Never underestimate terrorists and these type militants. They are notorious for their adaptiveness. Many examples can be cited for such, if need be. The point is that the Taliban is highly adaptive and it illustrates the highly adaptive nature of terrorism.
Don’t forget, this is the religion 0bama was brought up in. He wouldnt use HIS children, of course. But would he purchase some poor adoring woman’s child?
Unless he speaks out against this practice . . . I won’t trust him.
Wish Helen Thomas would ask him a question about his approval of this tactic at the next press conference er, make that press indoctination session.
Democrats come in many forms!
Religion of Peace ping
I mentally collect stories like this for when I hear academics bloviate about “the nonexistence of evil.”
But believe that Islam is a satanic juggernaut of destruction. As outlined in the false prophet Muhammad’s Qur’an.
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