In Swat Valley, U.S. Drone Strikes Radicalizing A New Generation -- CNN
Swat Valley, Pakistan (CNN) -- The Sabaoon School for boys in northern Pakistan is anything but average.
Nestled amid the bucolic charm of the Swat Valley's fertile terraced fields and steeply rising crags it looks idyllic. But if you get up close, a harsher reality becomes clear.
Two army check-posts scrutinize visitors entering the sprawling site. Once inside, the high razor wire-topped walls around the classroom compounds create a feeling reminiscent of a prison.
The boys here, aged 8 to 18, were all militants at some point. Some are killers, some helped build and plant improvised explosive devices, and others were destined to be suicide bombers until they were captured or turned over to the Pakistani army. All of them are at the school to be de-radicalized.
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My Comment: The madrassas have been a recruiting goldmine for Al Qaeda in Pakistan. Until the Pak government imposes some type of control on these religious schools .... Al Qaeda and radical Islamists will have no problem in recruiting new members. In the meantime .... the U.S. drone war continues.
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