Hopefully all the child soldiers in whatever Islamic conflict they are in give up and go back to their families.
Child soldier surrenders in suicide vest to escape Islamic State
TIM ARANGO
BAGHDAD — The New York Times News Service
Published Friday, Dec. 26 2014, 7:25 PM EST
His life, to say the least, took a detour.
On a recent evening in Baghdad, Usaid, who is 14, approached the gate of a Shia mosque, unzipped his jacket to show a vest of explosives and surrendered himself to the guards.
“They seduced us to join the caliphate,” he said several days later in an interview with The New York Times at a secret Iraqi intelligence site where he is being held.
Usaid described how he had been recruited by the Sunni extremists of the Islamic State from a mosque in his hometown, Manbij, near Aleppo. He said he joined the group willingly because “I believed in Islam.”
“They planted the idea in me that Shiites are infidels and we had to kill them,” he said in the interview, which took place in the presence of an Iraqi intelligence official.
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Child soldier surrenders in suicide vest to escape Islamic State - The Globe and Mail
Child soldier surrenders in suicide vest to escape Islamic State
TIM ARANGO
BAGHDAD — The New York Times News Service
Published Friday, Dec. 26 2014, 7:25 PM EST
- Before war convulsed his hometown in Syria, Usaid Barho played soccer, loved Jackie Chan movies and adored the beautiful Lebanese pop singer Nancy Ajram. He dreamed of attending college and becoming a doctor.
His life, to say the least, took a detour.
On a recent evening in Baghdad, Usaid, who is 14, approached the gate of a Shia mosque, unzipped his jacket to show a vest of explosives and surrendered himself to the guards.
“They seduced us to join the caliphate,” he said several days later in an interview with The New York Times at a secret Iraqi intelligence site where he is being held.
Usaid described how he had been recruited by the Sunni extremists of the Islamic State from a mosque in his hometown, Manbij, near Aleppo. He said he joined the group willingly because “I believed in Islam.”
“They planted the idea in me that Shiites are infidels and we had to kill them,” he said in the interview, which took place in the presence of an Iraqi intelligence official.
Read more at:
Child soldier surrenders in suicide vest to escape Islamic State - The Globe and Mail
