Jihad’s Child Suicide Bombers
Frank Crimi in FrontPage Despite the Taliban’s denial that it uses children as human explosives, its spring offensive began with a suicide bombing by a 12-year old boy. The attack is one more sign that the militant group and its terrorist allies are increasing their efforts to recruit, train and utilize child suicide bombers. Despite the Taliban’s denial that it uses children as human explosives, its spring offensive began with a suicide bombing by a 12-year-old boy. The attack is just one more sign that the militant group and its terrorist allies are increasing their efforts to recruit, train and utilize child suicide bombers. The young terrorist’s suicide blast, which killed four Afghan civilians and wounded twelve in the Afghan province of Paktika, was roundly condemned by Afghan President Hamid Karzai as “inhumane and against all Islamic principles.” Yet, it was one of two such suicide attacks carried out by child bombers in eastern Afghanistan over the past several weeks, attacks that killed over 15 people. Soon after those assaults, Afghan authorities showed off five captured would-be suicide bombers
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