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| Afghanistan |
| Taliban lie about using child suicide bombers (& everything else) |
| 2014-02-03 |
| Good article. Not sure how much of it is for external audiences only (published in English), but it reads 'moderately.' Militants try to protect their image by denying the recruitment of a 10-year-old girl to commit a suicide attack, but the Afghan people are not falling for the deception, citizens say. The juvenile reformatory in Kabul contains dozens of children, all of whom security forces detained before they could commit suicide bombings, Mahmoud Ahmadzai, an Afghan civilian, said, noting the Taliban's propensity to use children for such missions. The lies and cover-ups are all part of a scheme to try to regain support among the public, police have said, and the practice extends beyond Afghanistan. "Denying responsibility for attacks is part of their strategy to restore their deteriorating image among the public," Peshawar police investigator Khalid Khan told Central Asia Online after the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) denied participation in a series of attacks that the public condemned because of high civilian death tolls. |
| Posted by:Glenmore |
| #3 Boneheaded work of low level managers; and Fox News. |
| Posted by: swksvolFF 2014-02-03 21:10 |
| #2 Cambridge. Though I hear they also poll well at San Francisco State... |
| Posted by: Steve White 2014-02-03 17:39 |
| #1 Which country is the Taliban more popular Pakistan or Afghanistan? |
| Posted by: Paul D 2014-02-03 15:55 |