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| Terror Networks |
| Child soldiers of the Islamic State |
| 2014-11-01 |
| This week, Islamic State (IS) group social-media accounts posted an image of a young boy of perhaps 12 or 13 years old. Abu Usama is not playing at being an Islamic State rebel. He is one of the militant group's child fighters. IS social media praised him as the youngest fighter to guard the front lines in Kobani. Over the past weeks, many more reports have emerged with evidence that IS militants are providing military training to schoolchildren. Other reports claim that they are also using children as young as 13 as fighters. In Mosul, IS has replaced physical-education classes at local schools with martial-arts classes. A teacher there said that IS militants explained that "they need Mosul's students to be the future soldiers of the caliphate." Also this week, an activist group in Raqqa, the Syrian town that has become Islamic State's de facto capital, posted evidence that the Islamic State is running a training camp for children under 16. |
| Posted by:ryuge |
| #2 *standing ovation* Zenobia F. has competition! |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2014-11-01 21:48 |
| #1 With apologies to Coolio and Weird Al: As I walk through the valley of Baghdadi's reign I take a new wife as she screams in vain But that's just perfect for jihadis like me You know I shun fancy things like democracy At 4:30 in the morning I'm milking he-goats Mahmoud's on the rug singing hadith quotes And I'mve been raidin' and so long that Even tarik thinks that I've got my virgins made I'm a man of the Mo, peace be upon him Got a koran in my hand and a headchopper's grin But if I finish my kufirs and you finish thin Then tonight we're gonna party like it's 899 We been spending most our lives Making my islamic paradise I've cut off people's heads Making my islamic paradise Captives I get to sacrifice Making my islamic paradise We sell girls at discount price Making my islamic paradise |
| Posted by: swksvolFF 2014-11-01 19:36 |