Taliban Send 6 Year Old on a Suicide Mission....
Luckily, British soldiers spotted the boy at a checkpoint and defused his suicide vest. This is supposed to ensure their place in heaven?. Truly revolting!!....
Children as young as six are being used by the Taliban in increasingly desperate suicide missions, coalition forces in Afghanistan claimed yesterday.
The International Security Assistance Force (ISAF), to which Britain contributes 5,000 troops in southern Afghanistan, revealed that soldiers defused an explosive vest which had been placed on a six-year-old who had been told to attack Afghan army forces in the east of the country.
The boy was spotted after appearing confused at a checkpoint. The vest was defused and no one was hurt.
"They placed explosives on a six-year-old boy and told him to walk up to the Afghan police or army and push the button," said Captain Michael Cormier, the company commander who intercepted the child, in a statement. "Fortunately, the boy did not understand and asked patrolling officers why he had this vest on."
Lieutenant Colonel David Accetta, ISAF eastern regional command spokesman, told the Guardian: "In the past we have not seen the Taliban sink that low, to use children as suicide bombers. The personnel secured the vest to make sure the child was safe."
W Zip
H/T: DannyBoy
Just when you think you've seen it all, you see something like this. All I can do is shake my head and ask, "when am I going to wake up from this nightmare?"
OT
Weasel, congrats on the new site here - it is AWESOME!
Posted by: Fight4TheRight | June 23, 2007 at 06:20 PM
Thanks, I still have a lot to do, going to hopefully add a few more news links and a LGF only blogroll
Posted by: W Zip | June 23, 2007 at 06:28 PM
Greetings to all.
Prompt the best online shop on sale of Books.
Posted by: careybagsbon | November 19, 2007 at 04:12 PM
WZ,
An LGF only blog roll?
Posted by: Elric66 | November 19, 2007 at 04:16 PM
Hi Zip, what new site? I still see your original site - and Elric beat me to it... LGF?
Posted by: Pam | November 19, 2007 at 04:21 PM
Pam,
LGF. Little Green Footballs. A good site that went bad IMO.
Posted by: Elric66 | November 19, 2007 at 04:23 PM
Those have been there for a long time (carried over from my old blogspot site). Some of those are good but I need to completely revamp my links. Give me some suggestions.
Posted by: Zip | November 19, 2007 at 04:45 PM