Why Afghanistan’s Children Are Used as Spies and Suicide Bombers

"In all, 20 boys were killed carrying out suicide attacks from Sept. 2010 and Dec. 2014, according to a report prepared by the U.N. Secretary-General on children and armed conflict. Witnesses cited in the report described one incident where a suspected member of the Taliban “forced a boy to push a bicycle-borne improvised explosive device (IED) towards an Afghan National Army vehicle, killing himself and eight civilians.” In other instances, boys as young as six were used to unknowingly transport explosives in 2014, and two of the three were killed when they detonated. In 2013, another six boys were wounded while assembling an IED."

Six. Years. Old.
 
PBS is a lying right-wing radical source.

:mad:

Obama won the war in Afghanistan! All that is left now is the drawdown...














Why the hell hasn't he drawn down from South Korea? Japan? Germany? etc?

:confused:
 
Every single time he opens his pie hole he's proven to be a liar.

I wonder what's next.
 
No, conservatives are afraid of children, based on the comments I'm seeing.

Thank you President Obama!

The children are not just an unassailable victim, but an investment in our future!

We're "terrified" over a Children's Crusade! We can only thank gawd that you are here to keep our heads in the game...



Danka, danke, danke...,
 
bb, you got tiresome again. Time for another ID

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bb, you got tiresome again. Time for another ID

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well of course

when confronted with FACTS

the thing to do is IGGY

sorta like your buddy, the NIGGER

SHARYL ATTKISSON: OBAMA WON’T READ INTELLIGENCE ON GROUPS HE DOESN’T CONSIDER TERRORISTS:

Wednesday on Newsmax TV’s “The Steve Malzberg Show,” veteran journalist Sharyl Attkisson said her sources have told her that President Barack Obama does not want and will not read intelligence reports on groups “he does not consider terrorists,” despite being on a U.S. list of designated terrorists.

Attkisson said, “I have talked to people who have worked in the Obama administration who firmly believe he has made up his mind. I would say closed his mind, they say, to their intelligence that they’ve tried to bring him about various groups that he does not consider terrorists, even if they are on the U.S. list of designated terrorists. He has his own ideas, and there are those who’ve known him a long time who say this dates back to law school. He does not necessarily—you may think it’s a good trait you may think it’s a bad trait—he does not necessarily listen to the people with whom he disagrees. He seems to dig in. I would suppose because he thinks he’s right. He is facing formidable opposition on this particular point.”

The New York Times sounds like it grudgingly concurs with Attkisson’s assessment of our epistemically closed president, though you have to scroll down eight paragraphs deep past their deliberately underplayed headline, “In Rise of ISIS, No Single Missed Key but Many Strands of Blame,” to find the story’s real lede:

A 2012 report by the United States Defense Intelligence Agency was direct: The growing chaos in Syria’s civil war was giving Islamic militants there and in Iraq the space to spread and flourish. The group, it said, could “declare an Islamic state through its union with other terrorist organizations in Iraq and Syria.”

“This particular report, this was one of those nobody wanted to see,” said Lt. Gen. Michael T. Flynn, who ran the defense agency at the time.

“It was disregarded by the White House,” he said. “It was disregarded by other elements in the intelligence community as a one-off report. Frankly, at the White House, it didn’t meet the narrative.”

As John Fund wrote last year, the eye of the narrative draws ever-tighter in the cloistered Obama White House:

Chris Matthews of MSNBC, the former White House speechwriter who once rapturously recounted that he “felt this thrill going up my leg” as Obama spoke, didn’t hold back on Wednesday’s Hardball. “Let’s get tough here,” Matthews began, as he lambasted Obama for being “intellectually lazy” and “listening to the same voices all the time.” He even named names, saying that Obama had become “atrophied into that little world of people like Valerie Jarrett and Mrs. Obama.”

To borrow from Gen. Flynn’s language, I wonder what else Obama and Jarrett “disregard” because “it doesn’t meet the narrative?
 
"Originally Posted by about_average View Post
No, conservatives are afraid of children, based on the comments I'm seeing"

Unlike Mike Tyson, liberals never get tired of being stupid.
 
"Originally Posted by about_average View Post
No, conservatives are afraid of children, based on the comments I'm seeing"

Unlike Mike Tyson, liberals never get tired of being stupid.
Isn't Christie a republican?
“I don’t think orphans under 5 are being, you know, should be admitted into the United States at this point."​
He sure seems afraid of children
So Obama wasn't lying. You were the one who was lying.

And now you're doing what you shout about others doing, deflecting (this thread isn't about Tyson), denying and calling people names.

If you would slow down and read what you type (or C&P) before hitting submit, you wouldn't look like such a fool so much of the time.
 
Isn't Christie a republican?
“I don’t think orphans under 5 are being, you know, should be admitted into the United States at this point."​
He sure seems afraid of children
.

5 yr olds DONT come alone do they?

but you are the one who is afraid, cause you have me on IGGY
 
It's the child soldier story all over again.

Hitler had the Hitler Youth. They were sent into battle in the last months of the war.

African warlords have whole armies of children.

Islamo-fascist either brainwash them in radical madrassas or just give them a package and tell them to deliver it.

Fascist murdering fucks seem to resort to using children when they can no longer get real men to do real fighting.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military_use_of_children

The military use of children takes three distinct forms: children can take direct part in hostilities (child soldiers); they can be used in support roles such as porters, spies, messengers, lookouts; or they can be used for political advantage [either] as human shields and/or in propaganda.

Throughout history and in many cultures, children have been extensively involved in military campaigns even when such practices were against cultural morals.[1] In WW1, in Great Britain 250,000 boys under 19 managed to join the army.[2] In WW2, child soldiers fought throughout Europe, in the Warsaw Uprising,[3] in the Jewish resistance,[4] and in the Soviet Army.[5] Since the 1970s, a number of international conventions have come into effect that try to limit the participation of children in armed conflicts, nevertheless the Coalition to Stop the Use of Child Soldiers reports that the use of children in military forces, and the active participation of children in armed conflicts is widespread.

According to Wessels (1997), "The use of children in armed conflict is global in scope—a far greater problem than suggested by the scant attention it has received. Child soldiers are found from Central America to the Great Lakes region of Central Africa, and from Belfast in the north to Angola in the south" ( p. 2). Children are easy targets to recruit for military purposes because of their vulnerability to influence. Many are seized and recruited by force whereas others join to escape their reality and circumstances.[1]
 
widows and orphans

bb, you got tiresome again. Time for another ID

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you can and will ignore me

you will ignore reality

cause you need to protect the BLACK GUY no matter what

THE WOMEN OF THE ISLAMIC STATE: An oped in the Wall Street Journal today discusses radical Islam’s growing appeal among some women:

Why do these young women and girls go? Surely they can see that life is far more just and liberated in the West?

The short answer is that Islamic State is highly effective at analyzing its target audience and tailoring its propaganda to them . . . . The group is especially adept at exploiting Muslim women who feel isolated, perhaps as a result of anti-Muslim hatred, domestic turbulence, gender inequality or the lack of representation in society. As an alternative, they are offered a strong narrative of Islamist ideology, with suggestions that by joining Islamic State they can reverse the ills of life outside the caliphate. They are enticed by the idea that they will find a tight-knit collective sisterhood there that will provide them with support and friendship. This new Islamic life, in turn, is eventually used as a means to justify their radicalization and sacrifice. . . .

Now with the advent of the female suicide bomber Wednesday morning, we are potentially seeing Islamic State synthesize the idea of women as state builders into the idea of them as operational spearheads too—another luring and dangerous appeal to idealistic young women. We may now see women actively targeted and recruited by Islamic State for specific terrorist violence rather than just “state building.” History shows that the allure of physically taking up arms is not limited to men. Recall that the core operatives of Germany’s Baader-Meinhoff gang in the 1970s were women.

Recruiting women in such roles holds a tactical appeal for Islamic State and raises new security challenges for Western officials. Female terrorists can sometimes avoid detection more easily than men, and are less likely to be stopped and searched. Concealing weaponry or physical signs of trepidation before an attack—warning signs that security forces look for—can be achieved by wearing appropriate clothing. . . . .

So Muslim women want to join the “tight-knit collective sisterhood” and become a “spearhead” for misogynist men who view them as little more than property? Um, okay. So ISIS is basically an institutional form of a sociopathic predator: It lies, lies, lies to get the target “hooked,” with visions of love/grandeur, with the goal of using/abusing them for its own selfish needs.
 
"Now with the advent of the female suicide bomber Wednesday morning..."​
A dumbass oped. Female suicide bombers were not an advent this week. :rolleyes:

Oh, and you're right about ignoring you.
 
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