Pak Officials Accuse Talibans Of Buying Children To Use As Suicide Bombers
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Daily News, New York
Tuesday, July 7th 2009, 10:52 AM
Taliban buying children to use as suicide bombers in Pakistan
BY Chris Baud
Pakistan's top terror thug Baitullah Mehsud buys and sells children to
use as suicide bombers, according to Pakistani officials.
"He has been been admitting he holds a training center for young boys,
for preparing them for suicide bombing," Maj. Gen. Akhtar Abbas,
spokesman for the Pakistani army, told CNN. "So he is on record saying
all this, accepting these crimes."
Pakistan's military released a shocking video showing children as
young as 11 training for martyrdom missions.
Mehsud is an Al Qaeda ally and is considered the mastermind of a 2007
attack that killed Pakistan's Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto.
U.S. and Pakistani military have been targeting known Taliban
strongholds controlled by Mehsud. On Tuesday, a U.S. drone fired a
missile into a Taliban camp near the Afghan border, according to
intelligence officials.
U.S. officials do not confirm missions or drone attacks on Pakistani
soil, and Islamabad has complained in the past about such military
action, but it is believed are working in close cooperation to hunt
the Taliban leader.
According to reports, 14 people were killed in the attack in South
Waziristan.