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BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) -- The U.S. military said disturbing video that shows masked boys brandishing guns was an al Qaeda in Iraq training and recruiting tool.
"Al Qaeda in Iraq wants to poison the next generation of Iraqis," said Rear Adm. Gregory Smith during a Baghdad news conference about the release of the tape.
The video, he said, showed boys, "many below age 11" being used "to produce the next generation of al Qaeda."
Masked boys are seen in the tape armed with grenade launchers, AK-47s and pistols. They're standing in front of a black banner hung on a wall, shouting slogans. Another video shows a boy, surrounded by automatic weapons and wearing a suicide vest, according to The Associated Press.
Also in the video, armed boys in black hoods, with weapons pointed, shout and force a man off his bicycle, search a car, and clear a building while a male voice off camera instructs them.
Smith said the military doesn't know how many children al Qaeda in Iraq uses in its operations. He said it's believed the boys in the video were willing participants.
"Al Qaeda often refers to the children as the new generation of the mujahedeen," Smith said, using the Arabic term for holy warriors. "We've also seen evidence of al Qaeda entering schools, disseminating propaganda and no doubt terrorizing the children and their teachers."
The video indicates that al Qaeda in Iraq was increasingly targeting children and posting propaganda on some of the 5,000 al Qaeda-affiliated Web sites.
The U.S. military said the video excerpts were culled from five propaganda videos obtained during a raid targeting a senior member of al Qaeda in Iraq in December in Diyala province.
In Baghdad on Wednesday, roadside bombings in south-central Iraq killed seven people and wounded nine others, Iraq's Interior Ministry said.
A roadside bomb targeting police killed four people and wounded nine others in the south-central Iraqi provincial capital of Diwaniya on Wednesday morning, an Interior Ministry official told CNN. The city is the provincial seat of the largely Shiite Qadisiya province.
Police were transporting prisoners at the time of the attack. The four killed, two women, a child and a man, were civilian passers-by. Four civilians, three detainees, and two police officers were wounded.
A roadside bomb exploded midmorning in central Baghdad's Andalus Square, killing three civilians, according to the ministry.
In eastern Baghdad, a third roadside bomb targeted a U.S. military patrol, the Interior Ministry said. There was no immediate word on casualties.
The U.S. military on Wednesday also reported the deaths of two Sons of Iraq members who were trying to thwart a suicide attack on Tuesday in a town northwest of Baghdad.
A militant detonated a suicide vest outside a photo shop in Awad.
The pair died in the strike but "prevented the man from detonating the explosive vest filled with ball bearings in a crowd of local Iraqis. The selflessness of these men allowed time for surviving witnesses to recognize the threat and escape the blast," the military said.
The Sons of Iraq, Concerned Local Citizens and Awakening Councils are the names of anti-al Qaeda in Iraq citizen groups that have emerged across the country in recent months.
The U.S. military on Wednesday also reported a series of raids across Iraq over the last few days that led to the detentions of 20 suspected militants. The operations took place in the Baghdad area, in Mosul, and near Ramadi. Iraqi soldiers and Sons of Iraq members also found weapons caches.
Joined: May 06, 2007 Posts: 381 Location: El Paso TX
Posted: Wed Feb 06, 2008 3:24 pm Post subject:
Totally sickening!
Where in the h#ll is the UN, where are the human rights groups, where is CAIR, where are the so called moderate muslims?
This is sad, and reprehensible! How are we as a civilized country as well as other civilized countries support to battle against this pure evil. These children are brainwashed and once they are adults they will not want to do anything else but commit suicide bombings and kill people all while shouting Allah Akabar!
This is a sad but real look at what we are facing. We are facing a society of brainwashed fanatics, and there is no reasoning with this type of lunacy.
And in the meantime we have the human rights watch groups, the UN, and liberals in our own country complain about waterboarding! I tell you nothing makes sense anymore, good is bad, bad is good, you cannot speak about the evils or you are racist, bigoted or intolerant!
Joined: Jul 11, 2007 Posts: 1377 Location: santa/diabla ana, CA
Posted: Thu Feb 07, 2008 8:18 pm Post subject:
blkkat99 wrote:
Totally sickening!
Where in the h#ll is the UN, where are the human rights groups, where is CAIR, where are the so called moderate muslims?
This is sad, and reprehensible! How are we as a civilized country as well as other civilized countries support to battle against this pure evil. These children are brainwashed and once they are adults they will not want to do anything else but commit suicide bombings and kill people all while shouting Allah Akabar!
The moderate muslims are the ones who hold your feet while the radical muslims cut off your head. _________________ por las chupacabras todo, fuero de las chupacabras nada
Where in the h#ll is the UN, where are the human rights groups, where is CAIR, where are the so called moderate muslims?
This is sad, and reprehensible! How are we as a civilized country as well as other civilized countries support to battle against this pure evil. These children are brainwashed and once they are adults they will not want to do anything else but commit suicide bombings and kill people all while shouting Allah Akabar!
This is a sad but real look at what we are facing. We are facing a society of brainwashed fanatics, and there is no reasoning with this type of lunacy.
And in the meantime we have the human rights watch groups, the UN, and liberals in our own country complain about waterboarding! I tell you nothing makes sense anymore, good is bad, bad is good, you cannot speak about the evils or you are racist, bigoted or intolerant!
Where is the people of America is the big question ?
Goggle " ISLAMBURG " a paramilitary camp in W.Virginia where ex felons are being trained for battle . Mostly black recruits who are felons, yet they use firearms . Last i heard it's a felony to possess a firearm if your a felon .
We will go down in history as either the most cowardly nation to have ever evolved or the dumbest, don't know which ,but definatly one .
Joined: Jul 11, 2007 Posts: 1377 Location: santa/diabla ana, CA
Posted: Fri Feb 08, 2008 6:31 pm Post subject:
NOamNASTY wrote:
Goggle " ISLAMBURG " a paramilitary camp in W.Virginia where ex felons are being trained for battle . Mostly black recruits who are felons, yet they use firearms . Last i heard it's a felony to possess a firearm if your a felon .
We will go down in history as either the most cowardly nation to have ever evolved or the dumbest, don't know which ,but definatly one .
Thanks for the above info NOamNasty, I came up w/over a THOUSAND hits. _________________ por las chupacabras todo, fuero de las chupacabras nada
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