Afghan Government Rescues 41 CHILDREN From Becoming Suicide Bombers
Posted by Jim Hoft on Monday, February 20, 2012, 4:54 PM
In 2007 the Taliban told a 6-year-old street child to go “spray flowers” on the Americans.
He was carrying a bomb.
Afghan boy Juma Gul ,6, right, has lunch with his brother Dad Gul at a joint U.S.-Afghan military command center in Andar district of Ghazni province, west of Kabul, Afghanistan on Saturday, June 23, 2007. The story of Juma Gul, who says he thwarted an effort by Taliban militants to trick him into carrying out a suicide bombing against U.S. troops provoked tears and anger at a weekend meeting of tribal leaders. Though the Taliban dismissed the story as propaganda, at a time when U.S. and NATO forces are under increasing criticism over civilian casualties, both Afghan tribal elders and U.S. military officers said they were convinced by his dramatic account. (AP Photo/Musadeq Sadeq)
In 2009 the Taliban started buying up children for suicide bombings.
Last week two 10 year-old would-be suicide bombers were arrested in Afghanistan.
This weekend the Afghan govermnent rescued 41 children from becoming suicide bombers today as they were about to be smuggled across the mountains into Pakistan.
News 24 reported, via Lucianne:
The Afghan government said on Monday that police had rescued 41 children from becoming suicide bombers as they were about to be smuggled across the mountains into Pakistan.
Interior ministry spokesperson Sediq Sediqqi told a news conference that the children aged six to 11 had been released on February 15 from the clutches of four insurgents in eastern Kunar province.
He told AFP their families “were fooled by terrorists”, who promised to send them to seminaries in Pakistan where they would be “brainwashed” and “prepared for suicide bombings against Afghan and international troops in Afghanistan”.
Police arrested the four suspects and the children were returned to their families, the spokesperson said.
The Afghan government has accused madrassas in Pakistan of teaching violent extremism and sponsoring Islamist violence, a legacy of Afghanistan’s 1979-89 US and Pakistani-sponsored mujahideen uprising against Soviet troops.
On February 12, Afghan authorities announced the arrest of two 10-year-old would-be suicide bombers allegedly planning to attack Afghan and international forces in the southern province of Kandahar, the Taliban’s birthplace.
Related… In Pakistan the children play suicide bomber as a game.
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MrGoodWench commented:
So ?
Its just another kind of abortion , and it is OK because it is a woman’s health issue .
We need to be sensitive to their culture
Patty commented:
animals telling kids to spray death. sinful, disgusting, they are just kids, unthinkable that Satan is living there. actually, there are abuses in our nation of kids. teaching them to kill and then those children who have not clue that they are going to die.
Pray for a miracle, that is the only thing left.
Patty commented:
Recused, now, the real job, to teach them the opposite of what they have learned so they don’t just grow up to kill a next generation of kids.
lonestar commented:
That’s almost 3000 virgins given a short reprieve.
Zim commented:
Poor kids…
patman commented:
And my kids are being trained at gun safety, knowing the enemy, and self preservation…
Good luck baby bombers. We’re ready here.
Patty commented:
Watch this interview with First Lady Laura Bush
With the U.S. slated to draw down its troops in Afghanistan and the Afghan government seeking to negotiate peace with Taliban militants, the fragile strides made by Afghan women may be in jeopardy. Jim Glassman interviews former First Lady Laura Bush and others who are trying to help the women of Afghanistan gain greater access to education, health care, social rights and economic freedom.
http://www.ideasinactiontv.com/episodes/2012/02/afghan-women-prospects-for-the-future-former-first-lady-laura-bush-goldman-sachs-dina-powell-and-oth.html
Education starts with the women, mothers and Grandmothers of these children. First Lady Laura Bush has been instrumental in helping the women in Afghanistan
Reaganite Republican commented:
Isn’t that violating their rights to political expression, per the UN?
proudredneck commented:
Poor kids have no chance at all in these back-wards hell-holes.I like to see the grown-ups strap bombs to their bodies for martyr instead of bredding children for the cause.Bunch of wimps apparently they have some doubts about their after- life paradice.