Iraqi Children Trained By al-Qaeda To Be Suicide Bombers

Children in Dohuk, Iraq, show their happiness at receiving special delivery from Lana Aziz, a U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Gulf Region Division employee and native of Iraq, who now collects donations to benefit Iraqi children. Photo by Polli Barnes Keller/Defense Links

From Times Online:

Iraqi security forces have arrested four children who were allegedly part of a group of youngsters being groomed by al-Qaeda to become suicide bombers, an Iraqi army general said.

The children, who were detained in a village near the northern city of Kirkuk, were part of a cell known as the “Birds of Paradise” and were being specially trained to avoid detection as they carried out attacks, security officials said.

“Special forces units have arrested an organisation of children consisting of four individuals under the age of 14 who call themselves the 'Birds of Paradise',” said General Abdelamir al-Zaidi, the commander of the Iraqi army division in Kirkuk. “The group relies on children and is connected to al-Qaeda. It works to recruit children and young people to carry out suicide attacks and to aid the terrorist groups in detonating roadside bombs.”

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My Comment: The Times article does not indicate the involvement of the parents .... but it is clear that Al Qaeda is now scrapping from what they can (at the bottom of the barrel) the suicide bombers that they need.