VIDEOS SHOW AL-QAIDA IN IRAQ RECRUITING CHILDREN FOR TERRORISM
February 12, 2008
February 12, 2008
MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay, Feb. 12 -- The U.S. Embassy issued the following press release:
Al-Qaida in Iraq is recruiting and training boys - some younger than 11 - to kidnap and kill, senior U.S. and Iraqi military spokesmen said during a February 6 press briefing in Iraq.
Five training tapes recovered in a December 2007 raid show as many as 20 boys, most thought to be younger than 11 years old, carrying automatic weapons and grenades, storming homes in mock kidnappings . . .
Al-Qaida in Iraq is recruiting and training boys - some younger than 11 - to kidnap and kill, senior U.S. and Iraqi military spokesmen said during a February 6 press briefing in Iraq.
Five training tapes recovered in a December 2007 raid show as many as 20 boys, most thought to be younger than 11 years old, carrying automatic weapons and grenades, storming homes in mock kidnappings . . .