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Tony_FLADEM

(3,023 posts)
Mon Aug 26, 2013, 08:45 PM Aug 2013

The Taliban terror tot: Grinning Al-Qaeda fighter trains TODDLER to fire handgun in sickening video

shot in war-torn Afghanistan

The youngster is instructed how to use a pistol to deadly effect
Al-Qaeda trains children, many of them orphans, to be terrorists
Shocking footage also shows a burka-clad woman with a rocket launcher

A little boy laughs as a smiling adult helps him aim a semi-automatic pistol at a target, his first steps to becoming a terrorist hell-bent on war with the West.

This horrific scene is played out in a propaganda video posted online by Al-Qaeda terrorists in strife-hit Afghanistan.

The chilling footage, posted on Youtube, also shows a woman wearing a burkha aiming a rocket-propelled grenade and an exploding car.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2402117/The-Taliban-terror-tot-Grinning-Al-Qaeda-fighter-trains-TODDLER-handgun-sickening-video-shot-war-torn-Afghanistan.html

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The Taliban terror tot: Grinning Al-Qaeda fighter trains TODDLER to fire handgun in sickening video (Original Post) Tony_FLADEM Aug 2013 OP
Myself... I'm more concerned with the gun nuts that do the same shit right here - nt Ohio Joe Aug 2013 #1
This message was self-deleted by its author penultimate Aug 2013 #3
or marketing guns to children, even making them look like toys Electric Monk Aug 2013 #8
Ever wonder why the ones screaming FEMA Death Camps!!! are doing the job for free? DIY Depopulation! freshwest Aug 2013 #13
nothing like this, I suppose.... mike_c Aug 2013 #2
Nope, nothing to see there. Neoma Aug 2013 #6
NRA nominee for Mom of the Year: freshwest Aug 2013 #10
Afghanistan! The Other Red State! Walk away Aug 2013 #4
I about choked laughing so hard!!!! Arctic Dave Aug 2013 #18
It's amazing how some people will change the subject here. William769 Aug 2013 #5
I don't think it's changing the subject DisgustipatedinCA Aug 2013 #7
Like there is not enough discussion about this already? William769 Aug 2013 #9
It would have helped had I known beforehand that you were the arbiter of what should be discussed DisgustipatedinCA Aug 2013 #11
Got that right. William769 Aug 2013 #12
OK, their country has been invaded by a foreign army... mike_c Aug 2013 #14
I don't approve of anyone that young being taught to hold a gun. William769 Aug 2013 #16
I knew this had to be from the Daily Mail when I read the headline. Spider Jerusalem Aug 2013 #15
same BOG PERSON Aug 2013 #17
Strange that, innit? But you know it's good since it's from the Daily Fail. n/t SwissTony Aug 2013 #19

Response to Ohio Joe (Reply #1)

Walk away

(9,494 posts)
4. Afghanistan! The Other Red State!
Mon Aug 26, 2013, 08:54 PM
Aug 2013

I just feel so sorry that their children don't have pink and blue guns like those spoiled American Gunster kids!

William769

(55,145 posts)
5. It's amazing how some people will change the subject here.
Mon Aug 26, 2013, 08:54 PM
Aug 2013

Look at your OP & look at the responses. And people expect to be take seriously? I think not.

 

DisgustipatedinCA

(12,530 posts)
7. I don't think it's changing the subject
Mon Aug 26, 2013, 08:59 PM
Aug 2013

I think people are correctly bringing up the fact that many in the US let children start shooting guns at a young age. No, we don't have child soldiers in the US, but I think the comparison is still valid enough and worthy of discussion.

Bonus: if the kid actually is al Qaeda connected, maybe he'll end up, fighting alongside us in Syria.

William769

(55,145 posts)
9. Like there is not enough discussion about this already?
Mon Aug 26, 2013, 09:00 PM
Aug 2013

Like I said changing the subject for whatever damn foolish reason.

 

DisgustipatedinCA

(12,530 posts)
11. It would have helped had I known beforehand that you were the arbiter of what should be discussed
Mon Aug 26, 2013, 09:02 PM
Aug 2013

You have your point and you're sticking with it. Understood.

mike_c

(36,281 posts)
14. OK, their country has been invaded by a foreign army...
Mon Aug 26, 2013, 09:06 PM
Aug 2013

...their government forcibly replaced by quislings beholden to the invaders, their neighbors and families murdered by drones and rampaging coalition soldiers, their social order torn apart-- theirs, mind you, regardless of whether or not it conforms to our values-- and they teach their kids and their women to fight back. What would you do differently?

William769

(55,145 posts)
16. I don't approve of anyone that young being taught to hold a gun.
Mon Aug 26, 2013, 09:09 PM
Aug 2013

Let alone strap a bomb to their chest. I don't care what country they are in.

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