little girl wearing suicide vest detained in Afghanistan

[cali]

A young Afghan girl has been detained wearing a suicide vest in southern Afghanistan, officials say.

She was held on Sunday night in Helmand province, as she tried to carry out an attack on border police, an interior ministry spokesman told the BBC.

The girl, reported to be as young as eight and thought to be the sister of a prominent Taliban commander, is said to be in a state of shock and confusion.

Police told the BBC she was encouraged to carry out the attack by her brother.

According to interior ministry spokesman Sediq Sediqi, one of the Afghan soldiers spotted the girl wearing a suicide jacket.

But she could not operate the button to detonate the suicide vest or she was arrested before she could carry the attack, the BBC's Bilal Sarwary reports from the Afghan capital, Kabul.

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http://www.news.com.au/world/girl-8-wearing-suicide-vest-detained-in-afghanistan/story-fndir2ev-1226796176000

[COLGATE4]

1. Well, after all, she was only

a woman. In Afghanistan, women are completely expendable items. Good thing we brought 'democracy' to them, huh?

[TwilightGardener]

2. Goddamn. Please get our people out of this shithole.

[get the red out]

5. Agree

That is an understatement.

[HappyMe]

3. This is just sick.

This kind of thing isn't anything new. They used to strap bombs to kids and elderly people during Viet Nam.

[progressoid]

4. Send her to Guantanamo.

That will solve the problem.

[pecwae]

6. Poor little baby!

I look outside and even in the blowing cold children her age are playing in the yard next door; carefree, happy, even tho a bit chilly. Then I read about her and wonder how on earth can this kind of shit be happening in 2014.