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Iraq
14 underage ISIS recruits reported killed in airstrikes, suicide missions in Iraq
2015-06-26
[RUDAW.NET] More than a dozen Syrian children recruited by 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 Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems....
(ISIS) group have been killed in suicide kabooms and US-led coalition air strikes in Iraq, the UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) reported.

It claimed that the 14 dead children were among some 400 so-called "Cubs of the Caliphate" who were recruited by ISIS over a six-month period this year, and sent for missions in Iraq after training.

Quoting an unidentified source, SOHR said that underage recruits undergo a 40-day training course before being sent on missions.

"ISIS uses children to work as spies and agents to gather news and as guards on its own posts," as well as for suicide kabooms, the Observatory said.
Posted by:Fred

#2  We live in an age when 26 year olds are considered "children", so I'd first want to know how old these "children" actually were.

Besides, Stalin, Hitler, Mao and Osama were all kids once.

Would we have been worse off if they'd all died at an early age?
Posted by: charger   2015-06-26 12:21  

#1  How many puppies and bunnys?
Posted by: AlanC   2015-06-26 09:43  

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