Gaddafi Using Schoolboy Conscripts On Front Line -- The Telegraph
Col Muammar Gaddafi is using schoolboy conscripts as young as 15 in his battle to regain the besieged town of Misurata according to young government troops captured by rebels.
The teenagers are told they are going on training exercises until they reach the front lines, when they are given rifles and told by officers they will be shot if they retreat or desert.
Two badly-wounded teenage fighters shown to The Daily Telegraph said they were told Misurata had been overrun by drug addicts, Islamic militants and Egyptian invaders.
One said his own side had opened fire on his own teenage detachment when they later fled from the rebels.
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My Comment: Cluster bombs this morning, child soldiers today .... it seems that Gaddafi is pulling all the stops in this war to make sure that he wins.
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