Taliban Suicide Bombing Patterns

[Tc2642]

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.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/afghanista...109574,00.html

[Merv Benson]

This post has the story of the attack that killed two, a 10 year old and a 13 year old girl. Three others were wounded.

We probably have not yet mined the depths of depravity of the Taliban and al Qaeda.

Both this story and the one on the six year old human bomb attack came the same week the Taliban used children as human shields while provoking a bombing attack.