23 Apr 2013

The Taliban's boy commandos

They are barely bigger than the assault rifles they grasp clumsily in their hands. Yet these children are being trained to become the next generation of terrorists from the age of just five. Sitting in long lines as if on a school outing, they struggle to lift deadly AK-47s as they are made to fire off a flurry of rounds, their tiny bodies getting knocked back by the recoil.

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Others grapple with pistols as they are brainwashed into waging Jihad on the West and becoming suicide bombers. The terrifying footage was taken from an Al Qaeda terror camp in north Waziristan, near the Pakistan-Afghanistan border. Many of the children are orphans of the terrorist organisation's 'martyrs' following the same deadly route as their fathers.

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