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| 10-Year Old Girl With Suicide Vest Detained in Helmand |
| 2014-01-07 |
[Tolo News] A ten-year old girl was placed in durance vileInto the paddy wagon wit' yez! wearing a boom jacket in southern Helmand ...an Afghan province populated mostly by Pashtuns, adjacent to Injun country in Pak Balochistan... province on Sunday night, local officials said. The small girl is known as Spozhmai and is from the Khanshin District of Helmand. Based on initial investigations, the girl's brother was serving as a commander for the Taliban and he coerced her into carrying out a suicide kaboom on Afghan cops. "My brother, who serves as a Taliban capo, asked me to wear my dress and then the suicide jacket," Spozhmai said. "After that he left me outside, I was there for several minutes and was shivering from cold, then I shouted and the security forces picked me up." Local law enforcement in Helmand have said they believe the girl's brother is named Zahir, but goes by Hamid Saheb. "It seems that the brother of the girl who serves as the Taliban capo has fled the area," said Hamidullah Sediqi, the chief of the Sixth Battalion of Afghan Border Police (ABP) in Helmand. Reportedly, Spozhmai was unable to operate the button to detonate the boom jacket. Despite such issues with reliability, the Taliban has long used preadolescent, uneducated boys to carry out suicide kabooms. It is rare to find a young girl wrapped up in it though. Spozhmai has been transferred to the bustling provincial capital of Lashkargah. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #3 This girl is 10 going on 35 if appearance is an indicator. Read an article from another source that had better photos and her face would be appropriate for an adult. She's had a hard life. |
| Posted by: tipover 2014-01-07 16:22 |
| #2 Brotherly love - Islamic style. (Yea I know not all muslims are like this - I'm just waiting for an Islamic cleric to denounce it...) |
| Posted by: CrazyFool 2014-01-07 10:33 |
| #1 Fatwa from the authorities of the ROP in... Never mind. |
| Posted by: JFM 2014-01-07 09:53 |