Friday, August 5, 2011

How Child Soldiers Are Being Used To Kill NATO Troops In Afghanistan

Photo: Sickening: Corporal Stephen Curley was killed by a bomb detonated by a 14-year-old Afghani boy

Royal Marine Blown Up By 14-Year-Old Boy In Afghanistan After Insurgents Offered Him $80 To Set Off Bomb -- The Daily Mail

* Youngster was handed into police by his father after Taliban bosses refused to pay him for roadside attack

A Royal Marine was blown up in Afghanistan by a 14-year-old boy who was promised just $80 to set off a roadside bomb.

Father-of-one Stephen Curley, 26, was killed instantly when the bomb was detonated in the town Sangin in Helmand province in May last year.

Just days after his death the boy's father handed him in to the local police and he confessed to setting off the device.

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My Comment: The promise of $80 and a life is snuffed out and a family is ruined.

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