01/03/10
from The Mirror (UK)
Child soldiers trained by the Taliban to kill
British soldiers
By Nick Owens 2/08/2008 (Almost 2 years old now but regarded as a "Top
Story" at The Mirror.)
CLUTCHING AK-47 rifles and marching to war... these chilling images
show child soldiers on their way to fight British troops in Afghanistan.
The pictures come from a video filmed at an al-Qaeda training camp in Pakistan,
where Taliban warlords are turning boys as young as FIVE into trained killers.
Recorded only weeks ago, it captures a dozen nervous-looking boys in camouflage
uniforms with headbands which say: There is no God but Allah.
The boy soldiers stand in line before being handed rifles and taught to fire
rocket-propelled grenades.
They spend their day being brainwashed to kill their Jihad training caught on
film as part of an al-Qaeda recruitment drive.
The bewildered children, barely old enough to go to school, are forced to stand
in circles stretching and exercising to try to give them strength to carry heavy
ammunition.
They live in tents and say prayers before sleeping with weapons lying next to
them. When their training is complete the children are filmed walking over the
Pakistan-Afghanistan border right into a warzone.
The film shows one boy nodding nervously after he is asked: Are you prepared to
die for Allah?
If he is killed, he will not be the first. In one section, the face of an
11-year-old soldier, named as Abdullah al-Rahim, is circled on the screen as he
marches away.
Seconds later, images of his body wrapped in a white sheet appear, making him a
martyr for al-Qaeda leaders determined to recruit thousands more children.
The footage was obtained by Sunday Mirror investigators after it was posted on
an underground al-Qaeda website, which routinely trumpets the death of British
soldiers killed by the Taliban.
The seven-minute video was issued by the Islamic Jihad Union, which has training
camps in the north Waziristan province in Pakistan.
British commanders in Afghanistan say Taliban fighters increasingly use children
as suicide bombers. They are also used as human shields during firefights.
Author and terror expert Neil Doyle said it was one of the most disturbing
videos he had seen. He said: It is child abuse of the worst kind and shows the
kind of sick tactics al-Qaeda use.
nick.owens@sundaymirror.co.uk
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The video is included at the Mirror page (link at top of this page).
Our "Rules of Engagement" (ROE) forbid our troops to fire at or near civilian non-combatants such as women and children.
The average American soldier does not expect a 6 year old to fire an automatic weapon at him.
The average American soldier does not expect an armed jihadi to be hiding inside a woman's robes.
Muslim treachery, bureaucratic ROE and civilized American sense of honor are killing American soldiers.
How do you respond to a "religion" which advocate death or slavery for all who do not follow its barbaric rules?
There are from 1 to 12 million muslims in the U.S. today, depending on who's doing the counting and for what purpose. Reliable experts put the number at approximately 6 million, about 2 percent of the population, but the number is growing daily as legal and illegal immigrants arrive and as inner-city criminals and prison inmates are converted to "the religion of peace"
Intelligence analysts are predicting a major strike somewhere in the U.S. in 2010, something that will match or exceed the destruction of the World Trade Center on 9/11. You know the government is not prepared for it. You know their response to it will be pathetic. You know the perpetrators will escape unpunished. Did you know that under the Constitution of the United States, one of the few powers that the federal government does have is the defense of the country? They don't have the power to take over banks or automobile companies or to socialize medicine or to spread the wealth around, all of which they are doing, but they do have the obligation to defend the country, and in that we find abject failure.
Maybe it's time to start over...
EnemyoftheState