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| Islamic State Training Kids For Jihad, UN Says | |
| 2014-12-08 | |
| [IsraelTimes] The Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not reallyMoslems.... terror group published photos Saturday of children firing loaded AK-47 assault rifles, assembling weapons and standing in formation, at the ?Cubs of the Caliphate? training camp near Damascus, Syria. A total of seven images were distributed across social media platforms, including Twitter and jihadi forums, showing a group of adolescents wearing face masks and military fatigues, crouching in shooting positions, and struggling to cock large weapons.
According to the dispatch, the jihadi group has ?instrumentalized and abused children on a systematic scale,? using them in combat roles, as spies, guards, cooks, medics and even jacket wallahs. ?I saw at least 10 armed ISIS members aged 13?14 years old,? an unnamed interviewee from Al-Hasakah, Syria told the UN inquiry. ?These boys served as guards at ISIS headquarters and at checkpoints. They were armed with Kalashnikovs and grenades,? he said. The report observes that adolescents have been the victims, witnesses and perpetrators of public executions, and details an account of a 16-year-old boy reportedly cutting the throats of two Syrian soldiers captured from Tabqa airbase in late August 2014. The document notes that ?ISIS prioritizes children as a vehicle for ensuring long-term loyalty,? and that by instilling in them a strict adherence to jihadist ideology, the terror group seeks to form a ?cadre of devoted fighters that will see violence as a way of life.? In June, watchdog group Human Rights Watch ... During the fiscal year ended June 30, 2011, HRW received a pledge from the Foundation to Promote Open Society, of which George Soros is Chairman, for general support totaling $100,000,000. The grant is being paid in installments of $10,000,000 over ten years.Through June 30, 2013, HRW had received $30,000,000 towards the fulfillment of the pledge.... said in a report that the Islamic State and other gangs in Syria were recruiting kids as young as 13, training them with weapons and sending them into battle. They were assigned the same military duties as adults, and children and adults alike signed up for suicide-attack missions. | |
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