Taliban using children as part of ‘Violent Extemism’
— “14-year-old boy recruited by Taliban in Swat recalls recruitment”
— “Intelligence reports estimate more than 5,000 children trained so far”
— 14 year old Hazrat Ali: “They first call us to the mosques, and preach to us. Then they take us to a madrassa and they teach us things from the Quran. They teach us to use machine gun, Kalashnikov, rocket launchers, grenades, bombs. They ask us to use them only against the infidels. Then they teach us how to do a suicide attack.”
— “Ali said he longed for the day when his turn would come to be a suicide bomber. ‘There are thousands of us. The Taliban now have the power to defeat the army,’ he added.”
— Pakistani boys recall ordeal at suicide training centre