Reuters: Iraq - Insurgents Using Children To Fight US-led Forces

[Hissyspit]

This is clearly all John Kerry's fault... :sarcasm:

http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/IRIN/30bb0513668943c829bd130ddacd9fac.htm

IRAQ: Insurgents using children to fight US-led forces
02 Nov 2006 15:27:43 GMT

Iraq in turmoil
More BAGHDAD, 2 November (IRIN) - Some children have been recruited by insurgents to fight in Iraq, according to a prominent local NGO.

The Iraq Aid Association (IAA) in Baghdad, which works with children suffering psychological trauma as a result of violence, said most child insurgents harbour reasons for revenge. International law protects children from recruitment and participation in conflict.

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However, an Iraqi soldier, who did not want to be named, has confirmed that he witnessed such an attack in the past two weeks. He said a very good looking boy approached him and a group of his fellow soldiers and then blew himself up.

"When he came near my colleagues, there was no time to run," the soldier said. He said he escaped with a few injuries while his friends were killed.

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"We can fight adults but how can we fight children if our duty is to protect them?" asked the soldier who had survived the above attack.

The child suicide bomber in the above attack, 11-year-old Muhammad Saleh, is considered a hero by fellow child insurgents. The man who says he trained him did not want to be named. He said he has trained 22 children, between the ages of 7 and 12, to be suicide bombers or militants.

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1. Iraq - Bush and Rummy Using Teenagers To Kill Brown People..

For no apparent reason whatsoever.

[pretzel4gore]

2. forget it...

nt

[bemildred]

3. I must say this sudden, deep concern for Iraqi children is touching.

:puke::puke:

[Recursion]

4. I saw stuff like that

Early on in the insurgency they had this tendency to shoot Iraqi children with 5.56 mm weapons they scrounged up somewhere in order to blame it on US fire.

You can be against the war and still acknowledge that these are some f**ked-up people fighting US forces...

[daleo]

5. NATO is using teenage recruits in Afghanistan (local troops)

They gave them a couple weeks training, then sent them to guard roads NATO troops were building. The article (Globe and Mail) didn't give exact ages, just called them teenagers.

[wholetruth00]

6. Hey, it's their country. US military probably killed many relatives of these

children. If the US were invaded, my children would fight back too.