Taliban recruits teenage suicide bombers for revenge attacks

[totodeinhere]

Source: telegraph.co.uk

Video films made by the Taliban in Pakistan's troubled Swat valley show teenage boys being groomed as suicide bombers for revenge attacks against local security forces.

After the army began an operation to clear Taliban from the valley in May, fighters went from house to house demanding a boy or young man from each family, with recruits encouraged to volunteer for martyrdom missions.

Last week 24 people died and more than 300 were wounded when a suicide car bomb exploded outside a secret police headquarters in Lahore, and six policemen were killed when an attacker detonated explosives at a checkpoint in Peshawar.

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Propaganda films obtained by The Sunday Telegraph in Peshawar, the capital of North West Frontier Province, show boys of 14 or 15 recording farewell messages before climbing into vehicles filled with explosives.

Read more: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/pakistan/5413052/Taliban-recruits-teenage-suicide-bombers-for-revenge-attacks.html

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I wish I knew what if anything can be done about this. I agree that the international community should not stand idly by and watch these atrocities take place. However, I doubt if there can be a military solution to this. And to those who advocate negotiations with the Taliban, I am afraid that some elements of the Taliban don't want any type of negotiation and to them nothing short of taking over the whole country and imposing their will upon it will suffice. So what to do?

And in fairness, I wouldn't be surprised if atrocities are also being committed by the government side. And yes, I am aware of the war crimes committed in the name of the USA in Iraq and Afghanistan. But just saying that nothing should be done about the Taliban because we did it as well under Bush just doesn't cut it IMO. People are suffering and something, although as I said what that something is I don't know, needs to be done.

[BlooInBloo]

1. So sad when a *teenager* feels he has nothing worth living for.

[ohio2007]

3. this isn't new

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=102&topic_id=3158472&mesg_id=3160104

[Turbineguy]

2. Killing children

That's the ticket! Keep them from growing up and being miserable in a 7th century existence.

[ohio2007]

4. Three hundred people kidnapped by Taliban militants (..er..... volunteer for suicide missions )

PESHAWAR: Taliban militants kidnapped about 300 students, teachers and their relatives travelling in a convoy of mini-buses in North Waziristan on Monday, Reuters quoted police as saying.‘Driver of one of the vehicles managed to escape and students reported to us that their colleagues have been kidnapped by Taliban,’ Razaq Khan, a police official in Bakka Kheil village near the North Waziristan tribal region told Reuters.



The students from Razmak cadet college have reportedly been kidnapped near FR Bannu, DawnNews quoted official sources as saying. Official sources say cadets in two of 29 buses travelling under the protection of a security detail were kidnapped near Marwat canal Baka khel police station.
http://www.dawn.com/wps/wcm/connect/dawn-content-library/dawn/news/pakistan/11-several-dozen-cadets-kidnapped-in-north-waziristan--il--03
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fresh meat for the holy meat grinder. I'm sure the parents will "donate great sums" to the cause

[JonQ]

5. Get them before they've fully developed

cognitive faculties. Swell.