| Stills from the video at the link. I vote we send a couple of UAVs over the border one night and pound the place to rubble, which is no doubt why I am not consulted in these matters. |
| Awfully close to an ARCLIGHT! Better bring yer wallet to the O-Club! |
| Don't be silly, Dr. Steve: ARCLIGHTs are blunt instruments that flatten everything in sight and scare the bejeesus out of everyone within hearing distance of the bombers, whereas UAVs are precision instruments which strike precisely who they are aimed at, and scare the bejeesus out of everyone thereafter who doesn't hear anything. |
British commanders in Afghanistan say Taliban fighters are increasingly using children as suicide bombers and as human shields during battles.
Militants are training hundreds of them to become killers in the camp based in North Waziristan before being sent across the border to face western troops. The children come from families within the Turkic ethnic group of Uyghur people - Chinese Muslims who have fled and settled in Pakistan Afghanistan and Kazakhstan.
| Outsiders, and therefore even more disposable than madrassah boys with no prospects from poor families. |