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Al Qaeda Expanding Recruitment Of Children

cbsnews.com — Al Qaeda has successfully established a network for recruiting boys as young as 12 from across central Asia as it seeks new volunteers to enlarge its team of prospective suicide bombers and militants fighters, senior security officials from the Middle East have revealed to CBS News.

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  • sanman, on 07/04/2008, -15/+16Not to worry, Digg is expanding its youth recruitment for providing suitable PR cover to any unfortunate bombing incidents.
    • decafmatan, on 07/04/2008, -7/+13"But this is the only way they can protect themselves/their families/their religion"
  • Red1Delta, on 07/05/2008, -9/+5Who would of guessed?
    • PhilLesh69, on 07/05/2008, -3/+2I'm not sure who would of guessed. Because that is unclear. Who would be of guess? What is of guess?

      But I might ask who would have guessed.
      • masterm1nd, on 07/05/2008, -2/+4He implied terrorists are bad people, get him!
  • poiuytrewq44, on 07/05/2008, -26/+21Now I know that the U.S. isn't nearly as extreme as this. But when we say "OMG THEY'RE RECRUITING CHILDREN", kids are getting recruited as young as 15 for service as soon as they leave high school. Isn't this being just a leeeeeetle hypocritical?
    • active1x0, on 07/05/2008, -11/+25What U.S. are you living in? You cannot be deployed or placed in combat situations until you are 18 years of age. In fact, you can not even receive any military training until you are 17, and even then, explicit parent consent is required. Buried for attempting to discredit the military without knowing the facts.
      • poiuytrewq44, on 07/05/2008, -10/+15But you can enlist when you are 15 for future training once you get out of high school. Buried for not even reading what I wrote.
      • prince87x, on 07/05/2008, -9/+2Whats the difference between 15 and 18? Not much... I would be much more supportive of the military if only it wasn't Bush and his lunacy.
      • Magillicutti, on 07/05/2008, -0/+5About 3 years.
      • overridemymind, on 07/05/2008, -0/+9Yes, you can "enlist" as early as fifteen. However, this just keeps a future training "slot" open for you in the future. This is known as the Delayed Entry Program, or DEP. However, you are not actually locked into your contract until the day you "ship out" to Basic Combat Training. If you change your mind between 15 years old and the day you graduate high school, you can simply not show up to the MEPS station on your ship date.

        How do I know this? Well, I was entered into the Delayed Entry Program from age 17 -- I did ship out, but before I did, My initial DEP contract expired, and a new one was signed, and my six year enlistment began.

        Ergo, buried for bending the truth, or simply not knowing all the facts.
      • dkapuchino, on 07/05/2008, -1/+4overridemymind, I wonder who just buried you. Truth and facts have no place in Digg apparently.
    • benguild, on 07/05/2008, -5/+8Yeah, wtf? I don't even live in the USA and I know this. Buried.
      • Magillicutti, on 07/05/2008, -3/+4Recruiters target student that aren't performing well in high school as young as 15, probably 14. They can't serve until they're 18, but that doesn't mean recruiters can't put them on that path.

        Reminds me of this from Ryan Harvey:

        Now i say it loudly, wishing i was there:
        "***** you, recruiters! stop targeting my peers!
        It's not my war to fight in, and neither is it yours!
        You're sending kids like me to die, in other peoples' wars!"

        'Cause soldiers are not heroes,
        Let's make it clearly known:
        They're kids like you and me,
        Whose hearts and minds were overthrown.

        Don't be scared of nothin', please take this advice.
        If they start talkin' to your classmates, stand your ground and fight.
        And don't be fooled by fables, that the textbook authors type.
        Their wars are fought for profit, not for peoples' rights.
    • pintomp3, on 07/05/2008, -5/+8the same way they glorify their warriors we glorify ours. we bestow an honor on those who fight and kill people in order to further the interests of our rulers, as do they. if they are killed in combat, they honor the sacrifice. we are trained early on to think this way. when you boil it down, it's just different groups of humans doing what humans have been doing for thousands of years.

      btw, i don't know why he's being dugg down:

      http://www.csmonitor.com/2005/0518/p02s01-ussc.htm ...

      http://www.pbs.org/merrow/tv/newshour/recruit.html
      • warsongs7, on 07/05/2008, -1/+3Its all just a matter of us against them. Ever since our inception, humans have not improvised one bit on our survival instincts.
    • gothicform, on 07/05/2008, -6/+3Yes and more so than this... the amount of cases of suicide bombers under sixteen is about zero. It seems that terrorists have age limits too. Still, is anyone surprised? All militarised organisations recruit young, it's the easy way just like McDonalds sell "happy meals" to kids.
  • neel360, on 07/05/2008, -8/+3Why is the kid on the right holding (what appears to be) a PIPE? Is getting high a part of the training?
  • proficient, on 07/05/2008, -8/+14This is quite horrid indeed.
    • CrazedLeper, on 07/05/2008, -10/+4Bull(*sneeze*)it! The "war on terror" is a lie and a pretext for the return of the Final Solution. Al Qaeda no longer exists. Bin Laden is a CIA agent and a Bush family friend.
      • dkapuchino, on 07/05/2008, -3/+3Actually, I'm Bin Laden. We still exist, but we have decided to take our war on the Infidels to the internet.
        Douche.
    • dkapuchino, on 07/05/2008, -1/+3I don't get. What kind of heartless bastards could digg you down for saying that terrorists recruiting children is horrid.
  • nobody98, on 07/05/2008, -8/+3Quick let us call for a ban on all violent video games lest our children get lured more easily by these people with promises of an exciting action filled life!
    • Telmarine, on 07/05/2008, -0/+0I don't understand the joke or sarcasm in that, but I know that most muslim kids don't go on Xbox Live throwing grenades around at the opposing team.
      • dkapuchino, on 07/05/2008, -2/+0That would be the equivilant of you playing "Sit down in a cubicle 9-5" on an Xbox Live.
    • Mikhail101, on 07/05/2008, -0/+1Are you high or incredibly stupid?
  • Wartyboskfapped, on 07/05/2008, -14/+33Fear mongering *****.
    • PhilLesh69, on 07/05/2008, -9/+14But it apparently works amongst the lesser intelligent folks in our society.

      I say we call these cowards out. We should ridicule anyone who supports the "Global War on Terror" as simple and weak minded cowards.

      They don't seem to understand the definition of or purpose of terrorism. They are willingly, thumping of the chest proud of their reaction to terrorism, and are making terrorism a valid tactic by their fear filled reactions.

      I grew up with terrorism. My father became a commander of an Army Depot a few months before the Beirut Marine Barracks was bombed. I was sitting next to him at sunday brunch when his XO came to the table to tell him that he needed to sign off on 1,000 body bags to be sent to Lebanon immediately. I also remember reading the briefing packet he was given upon becoming a base commander, that said he should never take the same route to work each day, or that he should put broken glass on the top of the wall around our house. I remember when the base security and MPs came and installed about 7 or more panic switches throughout the house, or how I accidentally triggered the panic system when I was trying to wire a phone into my bedroom, and our house was surrounded by 25 soldiers and security contractors with M16s.

      I also remember being in Heidelburg in 1989 when the Nato Commander was hit by an RPG in the trunk of his armored mercedes, and how we had to drive around his wrecked car to enter the base at heidelburg.

      These fools who are so afraid of "terrorism" don't even understand what terrorism really is, or means.

      To them, 9/11 was a "wake up call", and they have been ***** their pants ever since.

      I saw 9/11 as a desperate act of people who cannot harm our nation, who can only lash out against us in criminal acts and sadistic hatred.

      I say we expel anyone who still believes that we are in an "existential war against islamic extremism" and get about stopping the effects of terrorism from destroying our nation's core principles by the people who are afraid.
      • quiksliver, on 07/05/2008, -0/+6i logged in to digg you up
      • twomeyw23334, on 07/05/2008, -6/+1So how does that justify recruiting 12 year olds and training them as possible suicide bombers?
        Is suicide bombing not terrorism?
      • PhilLesh69, on 07/06/2008, -0/+1Nothing justifies recruiting 12 years olds.

        I was adding to the comment "Fear mongering *****", I wasn't saying anything about recruiting 12 year olds.

        But, if you had read my comment, you would understand that it shouldn't matter what age of children they recruit. Anyone with half a brain and a little bit of balls wouldn't fold under the fear of terrorism.

        Terrorism is all about forcing a population to demand or at least support changes to a society that those people would otherwise be opposed to, if they weren't scared.
      • twomeyw23334, on 07/06/2008, -1/+0This was simply a news story, it wasn't advocating 'forced changes' on our society. So your rant is completely bogus and un-related. Unless you are seriously suggesting that we shouldn't report news that sheds terrorists in a bad light, in which case you would be 'forcing change' on society. Forcing people to keep their eyes closed, ears covered, and mouths shut.
        I fail to see, and you fail to provide, any evidence that this story is *****. You clearly have an agenda, and that is simply what your comment was for.
    • dkapuchino, on 07/05/2008, -5/+5http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/the-1 ...

      Cover your eyes and ears. God forbid should something try to open you up to what's actually happening in the world.
      • PhilLesh69, on 07/05/2008, -6/+6You're right. That story has convinced me that I need to cower in my basement, abandon all of my rights so that my government can do everything to protect me, and I should just shut the ***** up and go along with whatever my government tells me to do.

        I now realize that I am a humble subject of my all powerful, protective government.

        After all, there are individuals who want to kill me because of my freedoms.

        No, wait, I'm not a dumbass, so I don't buy into that *****. I'm not ***** my pants because some assholes hijacked some planes and flew them into skyscrapers, even though my father was on the 20th floor of the WTC Marriott, and my sister was 2 blocks north of the WTC complex, and I was working 2 blocks from the White House. Apparently, you have to be living in a podunk town in the midwest that will never be a target of terrorism to be truly and effectively victimized by terrorism.

        If you fear terrorism so much, look up the dictionary definition:

        ter·ror·ism /ˈtɛrəˌrɪzəm/
        –noun
        1. the use of violence and threats to intimidate or coerce, esp. for political purposes.
        2. the state of fear and submission produced by terrorism or terrorization.
        3. a terroristic method of governing or of resisting a government.
      • PhilLesh69, on 07/05/2008, -4/+7Wow, dude. Who's got anger? I'm not a ron paul fan. I'm just a rational person who has been aware of terrorism since he was 9 or 10 years old.

        If you understood what terrorism's primary goal is, you would understand that reacting strongly to a criminal act, demanding the government "do something" as a result of a terrorist act is exactly the point, and only serves to reinforce the tactic.

        Let me name a few freedoms I lost since 9/11, as a result of our government's reaction to a criminal act.

        I can no longer travel domestically without producing a photo ID. I have to take my shoes off when going through security to get to my departure gate. All of my emails and phone calls are monitored (while not necessarily by a person, a computer looks for keywords, and if I accidentally say one of the marked words, my conversation is dropped onto the desk of an analyst in a cubicle in a building in Fort Meade, MD.) I can be denied entry back into the United States if some agency determines that I have committed a crime, or could commit a crime, even though I am a natural born citizen.

        These aren't rights as spelled out in the first ten amendments, but they are still infringements upon the freedoms we should expect in an open and free society.

        Don't forget, the whole point of terrorism, as a tactic, is to close down an otherwise open society, through fear.
      • mtuckerdo, on 07/05/2008, -4/+1PhilLesh69
        I wasn't aware that traveling without a photo ID was a freedom? Oh right, I get it...You "feel" as if they're freedoms, so therefore they are freedoms. You just made them up. There's no real basis for backing up your reasoning for them being "freedoms" other than you saying that they are freedoms. That's the same argument my parents used when I was a child..."because I said so." Nice try. And as far as wiretapping and email screening, you have no basis of proof of that unless you did/said something stupid to deserve it...like maybe your last post. Get your facts straight, and get somewhat of an understanding of what freedom truly is. I understand you don't want to take your shoes off to travel...cause I really wouldn't want to smell your stinky feet anyways.
      • PhilLesh69, on 07/06/2008, -2/+1mtuckerdo, I pity you.

        Do you really think that freedom is just the right to invade other countires, to protect freedom? I sense that you have that circular logic that we are in Iraq protecting our freedoms, and you really don't know what freedom really means, but it sounds like a good reason to be at war, so that's just fine with you.

        Freedom is not defined by the Bill of Rights, if that is where you are trying to go with your comment. The Bill of Rights spells out 10 things that underline and support all other freedoms.

        Anytime the government takes away something or imposes itself upon the individual, the individual has lost some aspect of freedom.


        I have no basis of proof about wiretapping and email screening? Oh, really? Then why did they just pass a bill that gives immunity to telecoms for assisting in wiretapping?

        http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5hJKgeE0Z-SivATj ...

        And if you are so inclined to still believe that Echelon is a "conspiracy theory", if you happen to be about 15 years behind the times:

        http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ECHELON


    • masterm1nd, on 07/05/2008, -2/+3See first comment at top of page.
    • EncephaloMEgaly, on 07/05/2008, -1/+1Lesser intelligent person here. From my simplistic view... I'm a Mom and I don't like it. I'm not afraid, but I don't like it at all. I do not have the time or mental capacity to understand all the complexities of the world. I freely admit it. So I fall back on I am a Mom and I don't like it one bit. I don't like it in the Islamic world, the Christian world, the Atheist world, or any other world. The ones who suffer most in conflict around the world are women and children. Enough I say! And that's all I have to say about that.
      • quaxon, on 07/05/2008, -2/+2Now imagine you are a mom in Afghanistan or somewhere in the middle east and you and your entire family besides your son die from a US fired rocket. How do you think your son would feel? wouldn't he want to avenge your families death? There would be no Al Queda if we werent killing so many innocent people in the middle east for the past 50+ years and occupying their land/exploiting their resources. Terrorism is a direct cause of american foreign policy.
    • bdbr, on 07/05/2008, -1/+3It easy enough to write it off as the fear of "lesser intelligent" people, but I know smart, rational person who are completely swayed by this stuff. Clearly emotion (which is what terrorism is all about) can rule the minds of otherwise intelligent people.
      • PhilLesh69, on 07/06/2008, -0/+1But you would hope those otherwise intelligent people would eventually come to their senses after the initial shock wears off.

        I mean, after 9/11, they had that whole anthrax scare, and I live in the same zip code as the CIA headguarters, and work in the same zip code of the white house. Then there was that whole Lee Boyd Malvo "DC Sniper" thing. I didn't freak out, I just saw it as crazy *****, in a crazy world.

        I used to see people ducking behind their cars while pumping gas, while I would walk around to the exposed side of my car and lean up against it. I saw people putting on rubber gloves just to open their mail in the office. I licked every envelope before I opened mine. I laughed at those people.
    • solid12345, on 07/05/2008, -1/+4"fear mongering *****"

      Funny how America is the ONLY nation in the world not expected to react to terrorist attacks militarily.

      Whenever the Chechens bombed Russian apartments, trains, and schools, they sent the Spetznatz in and brought wrath down on the pricks and nobody said anything about it.

      But now when the US army or the Israelis do the same it is a war crime or part of a conspiracy by the government to take our rights away.
  • OC73, on 07/05/2008, -10/+19Garbage pro-terrorist propaganda from a far left media outlet.

    When your enemy is relying on children to do their fighting, it's a sign of desperation not success. Just look at the last days of the Third Reich.
    • CrazedLeper, on 07/05/2008, -9/+7Well, then why has the "war on terror" been scheduled to last 100 years? Because that's how long it will take to kill all the non-whites. Make no mistake, that's what the "war on terror" is about.
      • dkapuchino, on 07/05/2008, -5/+3Spoken as a true terrorist propagandist.
        It's ***** like you that spread these vile lies, giving the terrorists justifications for their attacks.
      • qwertydvorak, on 07/05/2008, -5/+2KILL WHITEY !!!

        http://video.aol.com/video-detail/chris-farley-bla ...
      • masterm1nd, on 07/05/2008, -2/+2First of all, where has it been scheduled to last 100 years? Second of all, what are you basing this "kill all non whites" thing on?

        It hasn't and Nothing
      • quaxon, on 07/05/2008, -1/+3"It's ***** like you that spread these vile lies, giving the terrorists justifications for their attacks."

        The 'terrorists' are much more justified in their killings than we are in the million+ innocents we've killed in Iraq alone (im not even going to mention all the other innocents weve killed or left as refugees in the middle east before the iraq war). You are probobly one of those idiots who believe they attacked us for our freedoms. The fact is there would be no al queda or terrorism like there is if it wasnt for the past 50+ years of US foreign policy killing families and exploiting the resources in the middle east. I would like to think that if an invading force came into my country and killed my friends and family i would be quick to become a 'terrorist' too. Especially if im a child with nothing left.
      • CrazedLeper, on 07/07/2008, -0/+1"It's ***** like you that spread these vile lies,"

        When has Bush ever told the truth? Name one thing that he hasn't demonstrably lied about. So there you have it. The *truth* must, therefore, be something else--and something he can't say.


        "First of all, where has it been scheduled to last 100 years? "
        Do your homework; it's no secret.


        "Second of all, what are you basing this "kill all non whites" thing on?"

        http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&ct=res&cd=1&url=htt ...
    • pilot101, on 07/05/2008, -1/+3Hitler's Youth ftw!
    • wattersm, on 07/05/2008, -1/+2Godwin'd
    • sodade, on 07/05/2008, -2/+2Isn't the WHOLE ***** POINT that they are desperate?
    • bdbr, on 07/05/2008, -2/+2What is "pro-terrorist" about an article that exposes how terrorists are exploiting children?
  • HeartlandUSA, on 07/05/2008, -8/+31This is just more BS fear mongering. There is probably a small amount of truth to it, but as always its being blown out of proportion to scare the public to get support for right-wing extreme policies.
    • cheese06, on 07/05/2008, -5/+9i'm pretty sick of people shouting "fear mongerer" left and right when a certain news organization is trying to cover a story. this is blown out of proportion because its on cbsnews.com? its quite evident that al qaeda recruits young kids straight out of their religious madrasas to do the clerics bidding.

      12 year old beheads an "American spy": http://mypetjawa.mu.nu/archives/188003.php
    • dkapuchino, on 07/05/2008, -2/+7Reading this article doesn't have me scared, it has me enraged. Sending a child to go blow himself up is a ***** crime against humanity. Ignoring it because of your political agendas and "liberal" views (if you were anywheres close to being a liberal, this would anger you even more than it angers me), is criminal as well.
    • twomeyw23334, on 07/05/2008, -3/+2Yeah, because extreme left-wingers never use this tactic. cough** global warming
    • solid12345, on 07/05/2008, -0/+230 years of radical Islamic Jihad campaigns around the world from Beirut to Bosnia to Afghanistan and people say it is "blown out of proportion"

      And you wonder why we think the political left is now occupied by nuts?
    • edyang, on 07/06/2008, -0/+0Tell that to the thousands that died at the World Trade Center, or at the Pentagon, or in the fields from the AA flight, or in London, or in Spain, or in Israel, or in Bali, or on the USS Cole, or in the US embassy in Iran, or in the Phillipines, or in India, or in Pakistan, or in Egypt, or in Yemen, or in Saudi Arabi.

      Not to mention the plots that were stopped before they were carried out: Sears Tower, NYC subway, Fort somthing, LAX, Space Needle, Canadian Parliament, trans-Atlantic flights, etc etc etc.

      I'm not quite sure how many more people around the world have to die before people take the blinders off and realize Islamic terrorism is real. These people want to kill us. They've said so, and they back it up. 'Nuff said.
  • active1x0, on 07/05/2008, -6/+15Ah yes: children. Recruit them early while they lack the ability to truly understand the consequences of anything. Force them to believe what you believe because they don't know any better. Ask them to strap bombs to their chest before they can understand what really happens when you blow yourself up in a market full of living, breathing people.

    Yes, Digg, these terrorists are just 'civilians defending their homeland from evil invaders.' Give me a ***** break.
    • Telmarine, on 07/05/2008, -6/+3One mans terrorist is another mans freedom fighter.

      But have you noticed the irony in that? I mean, parents tell children about religion when their minds could be easily manipulated. I bet if religion wasn't introduced to somebody until they were 13 then there would be far less believers in religion.

      But lets not get too off topic.

      Also, where did you hear that they are civilians defending their homeland other than the first sentence of my post?
      • dkapuchino, on 07/05/2008, -2/+5I'm not sure how you were brought up, but by any values I have, someone that sends a child to blow himself up with the promise of "god will protect you", deserves neither the label "Freedom fighter" nor the label "Man".
      • tomasII, on 07/05/2008, -0/+4ah yes those freedom fighters who fly planes into buildings...
      • Telmarine, on 07/05/2008, -0/+3Its a point of view, Americans view them as terrorists and other view them as freedom fighters, but they are terrorists no doubt
    • active1x0, on 07/05/2008, -2/+8"Also, where did you hear that they are civilians defending their homeland other than the first sentence of my post?"

      War protesters.

      Also, the minute you ask a 12 year old child to strap a bomb to his chest, I don't give a ***** what the ***** you are fighting for - you are a ***** animal.
      • Telmarine, on 07/05/2008, -5/+1Well humans are technically another race of animals....
        You could call them, a crazy menace to society
      • dkapuchino, on 07/05/2008, -2/+5@Telmarine,
        Please, if you can't answer to the point, just don't answer.
    • consonance, on 07/05/2008, -2/+3I agreed with you until the second paragraph. You need a reality check if you don't think the vast majority of Digg abhors the very idea of a terrorist attack.

      Saying that war protesters are responsible for aggrandizing terrorists as civilian freedom fighters is itself a misguided generalization that distorts the views of the vast majority of war protesters.

      Now, I can understand that you might have read the views of some vocal members of the minority, but they do not stand for Digg, and I cannot disagree more strongly with the notion that Digg praises terrorists.
      • active1x0, on 07/05/2008, -1/+4A cogent argument from a digger disagreeing with me?! This deserves a response...

        Never suggested Diggers support terrorism. I was attempting to put forth the argument that Diggers frequently minimalize terrorist acts, and even attempt to justify them in some cases, by saying that they are just defending their homeland. I do not think they are just defending their land if doing so requires they strap bombs to kids.

        These people have no morals, will do anything to destroy Americans, and are extremely dangerous if they have no problems recruiting 12 year olds. That was my point: people who use kids to malicious ends are barely human, and do not deserve to live. Diggers are not supporting terrorism - they all too often refuse to acknowledge that terrorism in fact exists, and not because we invaded their land. It is because terrorists have lost touch with reality and human compassion. They need to be eliminated.
  • dracostimpy, on 07/05/2008, -4/+8This is excellent news since this means a decade or so from now, there will be a REAL enemy for us to fight! Think of how much easier it'll be to get the citizens to support the wars on Indonesia, Pakistan, Venezuela, Galapagos Islands, Molossia and Tuvalu when there are REAL al qaeda members scattered across the globe! Now at last the war on terror can spread freedom to all corners of the globe! Huzzah!!!
    • geekboy88, on 07/05/2008, -4/+2War can spread freedom all over the globe? You sound a lot like Bush. He too believes in same thing, and just to save his own ass from the disasters he has created, he loves to blame Pakistan, Iran and other countries for supporting terrorists, and spreading terrorism, which provides a very sweet cover on all his mistakes.

      Problems can never be solved with Wars my friend, we need to find the root of this problem, and then eliminate it. These children were not born terrorists, but there environment has made them so. What we need is to change that environment, "Peacefully".

      Hope you understand that!
      • dkapuchino, on 07/05/2008, -3/+3Learn to understand sarcarsm. Then update your naive view of the world.
        The root to this problem is Extreme Islam. These people are brainwashed from a very early age and told that they must kill Americans and any non-Muslim because that is the bidding of God. When they grow older, they continue the brainwashing.
        How would you go about "eliminating" that?
      • dracostimpy, on 07/05/2008, -2/+3I'm gonna go ahead and award the rare double-FAIL to both of you - geekboy for not recognizing dripping sarcasm, dkap for anti-Islam fearmongering. dkap, when I stop seeing pictures of Israeli children signing bombs and Shin Bet torturing journalists, then I'll consider pointing a finger at Islam as the main source of tension in the Middle East (other than the US military presence, of course). Until then, there's NO religion I can think of that doesn't contain its fair share of extremists.
      • sodade, on 07/05/2008, -1/+3@dkapuchino - No, the root of this whole ***** mess is blatant US intervention in the Middle East. It all starts with 1953. It is not too hard to "brainwash" people that the US is out to get them when we are a blatant destabilizing force in the Middle East. What's sad is that people like you gloss over the blatant evil that the US government has done to these people. When is the US going to man up and take some ***** responsibility for our actions? It is all too easy to point the finger at a people driven to extremism (admittedly, their culture was pretty backwards to begin with) by our own actions.
  • blanketfury, on 07/05/2008, -5/+5Do those kids get dental benefits?
    • PopcornDave, on 07/05/2008, -0/+1No but I do hope they get plenty of Preperation H out there. I have a friend who's father was forced in to the Hitler youth back during WWII and child rape was a common occurrence. My friend's dad ended up with a serious drinking problem because of what happened to him at the hands of the German soldiers.
  • Andy1369, on 07/05/2008, -8/+3BS.
  • siszam, on 07/05/2008, -11/+15This is bad but so is letting recruiters into American high schools. America has nothing to be self righteous about.
    • dkapuchino, on 07/05/2008, -1/+8You should be greatful that the military has to "Recruit" you.
      In many countries, it isn't even a matter of choice. You either join the army or go to jail. And there's nothing wrong with that. As a man, it's your job to protect your women, children and elderly. Military service is the way we as a country all stand together to defend all our women and children.
      • Zpanzer, on 07/05/2008, -0/+4in Denmark, when a man reaches the age of 18, theres a "lottery" where you either get enlisted for some months duty in the danish army, or you are lucky and get a "free card". If you get enlisted, there is still a chance you will be denied acces due to either psysical stuff like a bad back, eye problems etc or mental problems.
      • StopTheLie, on 07/05/2008, -1/+2

        Ya, that implies you're actually defending the "woman, children and elderly." What happens when all you're REALLY doing is furthering the goals of criminals (in government) who, by the way, are working overtime to exploit your women, children and elderly...
    • stfucupcake, on 07/05/2008, -2/+3Weekly my son gets spam mail from each of the armed services. This week it was two brochures from the Marines promoting free prizes (a watch, tshirt, wrist band, chance to get an ipod) if he replied back/phoned the recruiter.

      They got his name from the state's PSAT registry....
    • masterm1nd, on 07/05/2008, -3/+5Ummm... except theres a difference between suicide bombing and protecting your country.
      • dkapuchino, on 07/05/2008, -4/+6Not if you're a terrorist sympathizer on Digg.
      • quaxon, on 07/05/2008, -2/+2There is, but the US armed forces are not protecting our country in any way now are they? in fact our military is what brings on this type of terrorism. We have been in the middle east stirring ***** up, killing innocents, stealing their resources and creating instability for the past 50+ years. The only difference between a "terrorist" and a US troop is a uniform and the fact that US troops have millions of dollars at their disposal to use on high tech weaponry so they can kill much easier. When you dont have the finances for the high tech weaponry and have to turn to other creative ways of fighting an occupying enemy i guess that makes you a terrorist?
    • opiniastrous, on 07/06/2008, -0/+1I would say there is a difference between recruiting people too young to enter High School and recruiting people old enough to leave High School.
  • XxERMxX, on 07/05/2008, -7/+4The only way to combat these people is to free from oil dependence. Not that I sympathize with Osama but...
    • dkapuchino, on 07/05/2008, -2/+5Not the ONLY way, but definitely an essential stage in the battle. On the other hand, countries that do not aid terrorists and oppose them, should be nourished. Brought into our western society as equals. High tech and development in these countries will only help rid them of brainwashed hate they have for us.
    • masterm1nd, on 07/05/2008, -0/+2That would work much better than doing something.
  • Micetro, on 07/05/2008, -19/+1Invisible Children 2: Sand *****
    • cheese06, on 07/05/2008, -0/+5really uncalled for.
    • overridemymind, on 07/05/2008, -0/+5Wow. Simply wow Micetro. I've heard of "being obnoxious by way of internet anonymity" but that comment was just re-*****-cockulous.

      Buried for being a racist piece of *****, or just an idiot with a keyboard.
    • stfucupcake, on 07/05/2008, -1/+6I bet that blatant racist ***** is popular at your trailer park.
      • Micetro, on 07/05/2008, -1/+0no i live in a very wealthy town thats 99% white ppl!! its great here!! :D

        i cant believe i thought of that lol!!! im a genius!!!
  • ASSASSYN360, on 07/05/2008, -6/+3Reportedly they have trained puppies to replace their mounting dog loss.
    • PhilLesh69, on 07/05/2008, -1/+3The puppies hate us for our opposable thumbs!
  • ninjadeathcult, on 07/05/2008, -8/+22More ***** propaganda designed to scare the naive. You are more likelly to be struck by lightning twice on the same day then to be killed in a terrorist attack.. And yet these stories are highlighted and made to create acceptance of further errosion of our civil liberties in the name of protecting us from the terrorist boogie men
    • pintomp3, on 07/05/2008, -5/+5why does lighting hate freedom so much?
    • dkapuchino, on 07/05/2008, -3/+10Where I live, terrorist attacks are daily. I myself was saved from a suicide bombing only because I caught a ride home one day instead of taking the bus. Several times, I have been at the site of an attack just minutes after the attacks. I know people that have been severly injured in terrorist attacks, and have been to countless funerals of friends that have lost family members in terrorist attacks. My mother was once told by a muslim worker she hired for gardening - "You know I love and respect you. But if it ever comes to a full out war between our people, I will have no reserve before shattering your skull with a stone". Needless to say, we never hired him again.

      The only reason this isn't a daily reality for you as well, is because your government can actually do something to fight these terrorists. Be grateful for that. Don't ignore the threat. If you give up on the fighting, allow them to discourage you, it will be too late when you get the wake up call.
      • PhilLesh69, on 07/05/2008, -6/+6Thank god you live in Israel, right?

        We went through the same thing you did about 150 to 200 years ago. Indians raided frontier villages, attacked wagon trains and killed people who infringed upon their land.

        Luckily, there was no modern media back then. We got away with it.

        Unfortunately for Israel, the entire world is watching as you fence in and attack and marginalize the indigenous peoples of the land you are occupying.

        Granted, we occupied a land at the expense of indigenous peoples here in America, too, but that was long ago, and none of us can take responsibility for it anymore. Plus, we let them have casinos.

        You need to have a relativistic sense of history. What you do NOW means more than what was done a dozen generations ago. If you are suppressing a group NOW, it means more than having suppressed a group so far back in the past that the majority living now don't even have a connection to the people who did the suppressing.

        If my nation was currently oppressing native americans right now, preventing them from travelling from their homes to their schools or jobs, I wouldn't be surprised if the person I hired to do manual labor in my yard would have some amount of animosity towards me. I would be surprised if they didn't.
      • dkapuchino, on 07/05/2008, -5/+5So, let me get you straight, do you justify terrorist attacks against women and children, sending 14 year olds to blow themselves up in discotheques killing 15 year old girls, or do you oppose this, knowing nothing in the world could justify such barbaric actions?
      • PhilLesh69, on 07/05/2008, -4/+9get me straight. I don't justify terrorist attacks. HOWEVER, I also do not justify people using those criminal acts to justify their own goals, either.

        Using terrorism as a cludgeon to bash anyone who opposes your viewpoint is no better than using terrorism to force your politics on your enemy. If you use another person's terrorist attack against you as justification for your ideology, you are just as bad as the terrorist.
      • dkapuchino, on 07/05/2008, -4/+6How about this. You agree with me that terrorist attacks peformed by children and teenagers, directed at women and children are some of the most vile things humanity has been capable of producing, and NOTHING justifies it, and then we can start talking about viewpoints and ideology.
        Deal?
      • medfreak, on 07/05/2008, -2/+5@dkapuchino
        You are clearly derailing his point. He already said that terrorist attacks are unacceptable. How about you answer his argument instead. Israel does not have "daily" terrorist attacks. This year so far it had only 2. Yet the Palestinians continue to suffer from incursions and assassinations. How about we agree that the Israeli soldiers that head shoot and snipe Palestinian children for stone throwing are terrorists too and we can then discuss viewpoints and ideology.
        Deal?
      • PhilLesh69, on 07/06/2008, -1/+1medfreak, you meant he is clearly TRYING to derail my point. He hasn't succeeded.

        Be careful with your words, people who refuse to listen to reason will latch on to any flaw in what you write to justify their broken position. dkapuchino might say that you agree that he was right and I was wrong because he derailed my point. Low-minded folks do that all the time.
    • masterm1nd, on 07/05/2008, -1/+2Haha, do you think we should prevent those few people from getting shocked by lighting if we could? That is a logical fallacy. Followed by a baseless theory.

      Ohh yes, designed to scare. Can't think of any other possible reason for this to be known. I mean, it only makes the good guys look bad. Why tell everyone about it?
      • ninjadeathcult, on 07/09/2008, -0/+1FACT- You are more likelly to be struct down twice in the same day from lightning.
        FACT- Your civil rights are Being erroded because of ' The war on terror'
        'If your prepared to give up your liberty in the name of security you deserve neither liberty nor security'
        Benjamin Franklin

        What baseless theory are you crying about..look at the laws that have passed since 'war on terror' this makes you happy throwing away what braver men than yourself died for?? and who do you believe are these "good guys" are they the same who have legalised and approved of torture of children...
        educate yourself then comment in that order..
    • solid12345, on 07/05/2008, -0/+2Go walk down a street in Hezbollah's neighborhood in Lebanon and count on the lightning statistic to save you from having a bag thrown on your head, tossed into the back of a car and made to sit in front of a camera while you are beheaded

      This war on terrorism isn't about "fightin' terr-uh-rists" it is about defeating an evil corrupt ideology that exists in areass throughout the middle east and central Asia.
      • medfreak, on 07/05/2008, -0/+1"Hezbollah Neighborhoods" are safer than most allies in the US. Lebanon is a very versatile country with the majority of Christians of the country backing Hezbollah.
      • PhilLesh69, on 07/06/2008, -0/+1I work for a wire service that has an office in Beirut. My boss travels there twice a year.

        I was even supposed to go with him two years ago, but the windstorms in Europe forced me to have to travel to London, instead, to help repair the satellite links in our London offices.

        Your tunnel vision view of the world is a bit biased and not based in reality. Beirut is actually a fairly safe place, unless you happen to be a very high political official who Syria dislikes.
      • ninjadeathcult, on 07/08/2008, -0/+2wrong...This idealogy is so minor among muslims, i live in the uk mate with tons of muslims and If this idealogy was as widespread and as prevellant as you believe wouldnt there have been more attacks. Go back to your flouride water and your fox news you fool.
  • largobargo, on 07/05/2008, -2/+4Now i'm convinced we must invade Iran for the children.
    • PhilLesh69, on 07/05/2008, -2/+4You like children that much? ;)

      I think we should invade Germany, or all of Europe. Did you know that the age of consent in Europe is only 16? You can photograph a 16 year old girl naked in Germany, or you could even marry one! How horrible!

      Oh. What am I talking about. In Kansas and most midwest states, you can marry a 15 year old girl if the parents consent to it.
      • dkapuchino, on 07/05/2008, -4/+2Because marrying a 16 year old, and sending a 12 year old to blow himself up are morally equivalent.
        douche.
      • PhilLesh69, on 07/05/2008, -2/+4dkapuchino, I never said they were morally equivalent, douche.

        largobargo said "we must invade iran for the children", and I made a comment about how "the children" is a relative concept from society to society.

        douche.

        God, I love that word. douche. Are you a vinegar and water douche, or a lavender and rose douche?
  • PhilLesh69, on 07/05/2008, -6/+9Oh no! We're all doomed! They're recruiting children!

    No, wait. Maybe that means they can't recruit from more mature and rational adults?

    But hey, whatever scares you. If you really love watching cars go around in a circle 500 times, and still think that Georgie is doing a great job, more power to you! You ought to be afraid of the brown people destroying America because they hate us for our freedoms.

    Meanwhile, the more rational amongst us will be a little bit more concerned with rising fuel and food prices, and other more realistic issues.

    But just do us a favor, don't vote in November. You guys are responsible for everything you fear, and you will only make things worse. Stay home that Tuesday in November. You owe it to your nation if you really are a "patriot".
    • dkapuchino, on 07/05/2008, -5/+2You are more concerned about oil costing more, than children being sent to blow themselves up?
      And your getting dugg up for this?
      I blame your parents.
      • PhilLesh69, on 07/05/2008, -1/+2You blame my parents for me being dugg up?

        Why? Did you go to public school, or something?

        Do I talk like a fag, and is my ***** all retarded?
      • dkapuchino, on 07/05/2008, -2/+1I blame your parents for the lack of humanity you display.
      • iticu, on 07/05/2008, -1/+3I agree, we should totally invade every country that isn't nice to their populace.
      • wattersm, on 07/05/2008, -0/+2Hell yes I'm more concerned with oil prices than what some idiots are doing in their 3rd world hell hole.
      • publiclurker, on 07/05/2008, -0/+2People like you don't seem to mind children being blown up if we are doing it do you?
    • overridemymind, on 07/05/2008, -0/+5This may or may not be a fear-inducing campaign, but if you think about it -- it'd be a good tactic for the Taliban -- using children against us.

      As some of you may, or may not know, I'm enlisted in the US Army, and I'm stationed *somewhere overseas*. Being in a foreign country, with not a whole lot to do during free time, leaves conversation open to "What would you do if..." topics.

      The topic of "would you shoot at a child if you saw him or her aiming a weapon at you or your 'battle buddies'" The answer is... typically hotly debated amongst us.

      People like to think of the military as one big evil entity. But you have to remember, we're all people with our own ideas, values and backgrounds. Yes, we do get some pieces of ***** in (the abu-graib incident, for example), and they usually get media coverage -- bad news == better ratings. But the majority of us are good people, and many of us would not shoot at children, even if it meant our own death.

      Something to think about,
      overridemymind
      • PhilLesh69, on 07/05/2008, -3/+2I don't think anyone would expect you to do anything other than shooting anyone, of any age, race or gender, who was aiming a weapon at you.

        But I do understand why it is hotly debated among your unit. It is a ***** thing to have to do. But even here in peaceful America, if some kid broke into my house and pointed a gun at me, I wouldn't hesitate to shoot him. Look at the gun, not the person holding it.

        That being said, this story has nothing to do with that. It is a neocon propoganda piece, designed to strike fear into the hearts of the weak minded who are so afraid of the big bad brownies/jihadis, that they will support any and all violations of American principles and laws to feel safer from those people who hate us for our freedoms.
  • kahrytan, on 07/05/2008, -2/+8 They must be desperate. They are running out of women and men...
    • dkapuchino, on 07/05/2008, -5/+3It's not a matter of deperation, it's a matter of having no morals.
    • CVL4317, on 07/07/2008, -1/+1so, if a man dies in holy war, he will get bunch of virgins. How about female? bunch of 40 years old virgins?
  • dildoolielly, on 07/05/2008, -7/+5HOW TO QUIET A CON COCKTAIL PARTY

    suggest bringing back the draft.
    • PhilLesh69, on 07/05/2008, -5/+2NEOCON. Not "CON", unless you mean convict.

      Learn the difference between conservative and neoconservative. There is a HUGE difference.
    • tufftugg, on 07/05/2008, -0/+3Best comment on here yet. And being dugg down, so point taken.
  • humanerror, on 07/05/2008, -5/+7I'm 29. Can I still sign up?
    • dkapuchino, on 07/05/2008, -5/+4You would like to join a terrorist organization, and blow yourself up in order to attack civilians / American soldiers?
      • humanerror, on 07/05/2008, -3/+6Well I have a college degree so I was hoping I could start out somewhere in middle management.
      • dkapuchino, on 07/05/2008, -1/+3So you'd rather be one of the cowards that send children to blow themselves up instead of doing the dirty work?
      • humanerror, on 07/05/2008, -1/+4Well, that depends. Do I get dental coverage and a parking space?
      • dkapuchino, on 07/05/2008, -1/+1Yes. so? what is it?
    • captric, on 07/05/2008, -3/+1Sure you can - go for it! Go figh against the unjust Americans and theit made up war on terror. Maybe you will finally become a man
  • cheese06, on 07/05/2008, -4/+912 Year Old Beheads an American Spy: http://mypetjawa.mu.nu/archives/188003.php
  • aTTicus78, on 07/05/2008, -4/+5Well thank God. Maybe Bush can now find some terrorists.

    Terrorists terrorists terrorists.
  • FiP0, on 07/05/2008, -3/+4Just when you thought they couldn't get any cuddlier
    • PhilLesh69, on 07/05/2008, -4/+4nice one.

      Maybe they should recruit pandas next. Then the neocons would have to stop hating them so much.
  • pintomp3, on 07/05/2008, -6/+16al qaeda doesn't need to recruit. seeing your brother getting killed by blackwater or having your father dragged off and tortured is enough for most people to fight back.
    • dkapuchino, on 07/05/2008, -2/+8Who did we torture or kill before 9/11, the attacks against the USS Cole, The bombings in Kenya and Tanzania, the bombings of our embassy and marine barracks in Beirut?
      • publiclurker, on 07/05/2008, -3/+2Google the word "blowback", Then check who put the Shaw into Iran and Sadam into Iraq. Then come back for your next remedial lesson.
      • solid12345, on 07/05/2008, -0/+4"Who put the Shaw in Iran"

        We never "put the Shah in Iran" he was born King of Iran from birth you ***** idiot, you people get your history from leftist talking points that think world history began after America became a super power.

        The Shah fled to Italy for about 3 days fearing Mossadegh was trying to overthrow him, we only brought him back.
  • ggidlabeay, on 07/05/2008, -5/+2Reportedly they have trained puppies to replace their mounting dog loss.
    http://www.eqperformance.com/mambo/
  • pintomp3, on 07/05/2008, -8/+6what kind of horrible people would arm children with weapons?

    http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3110/2630248834_687 ...

    http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2413/2473836748_94d ...
    • dkapuchino, on 07/05/2008, -2/+9Gotta love the propaganda. Those are pictures from traditional weapons displays during Israeli independence. This is clearly visible by the cord tied to the triggers. Here's another one:
      http://www.daylife.com/photo/0clo8cN6aXcNT

      But you do your job of spreading hate and lies well. Way to take such a picture out of context, and display it as "arming children".
  • pigfister, on 07/05/2008, -8/+550% OF THE POPULATION IS UNDER 17 FFS.

    When you have to defend you own country from a genocide to steal oil gas and build a pipeline i hope my 7year old is brave enough to oust the terrorists.

    one man's freedom fighter, is another man's terrorist.

    Fake War on terror

    1. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Yb5_FwQw1k&feature ...

    2. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uk2SXdGcdSg&feature ...

    3. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bupST85KQ-E&feature ...

    4. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gH_hxHwOX1I&feature ...

    5. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e1OoV70rSik&feature ...
    • humanerror, on 07/05/2008, -1/+2Thought you said 50% OF THE POPULATION IS UNDER 17 FPS.

      I was like, damn we need hook our troops up with some pentiums
  • mthd, on 07/05/2008, -5/+1Tomorrows headline: YOUR CHILD MIGHT BE A TERRORIST
    • PopcornDave, on 07/05/2008, -0/+1Daily Mail or Weekly World News?
  • P5ycHo, on 07/05/2008, -3/+8Inaccurate. Al Qaeda does not exist.
    • blanketfury, on 07/05/2008, -2/+1That's false. The government tells me they exist.

      And the government is always right.

    • solid12345, on 07/05/2008, -0/+2You are right, they are just generic radicalized Muslims, Al-Queda is just a politically-correct term to keep us from saying Islamic fascism.
    • opiniastrous, on 07/06/2008, -0/+2A couple of documentaries and YouTube videos that claim al Qaeda doesn't exist, funnily enough, doesn't make the claim fact.

      Not even if you disagree with US foreign policy.
  • Iztikeit, on 07/05/2008, -0/+2Did you expect them to slow their recruitment? I don't think that was on the table. No one needed to reveal this.

    I think many Americans are still missing the scope of this war and the goals of such groups. (and the reasons they have those goals, especially)
  • pauliusuza, on 07/05/2008, -0/+2For a second I thought it was a job ad or something...
  • BotchaMcCoola, on 07/05/2008, -0/+2US militarism, overspending, overborrowing, lowering of interest rates, all drive the dollar down and the oil speculators into a frenzy. This puts extra dollars into the hands of the Saudis, many of whom are the major financial contributors to al-Qaeda type orgs. So what do we expect them to do with all the extra petrodollars? A recent story from a Saudi economist colleague is that a professor asked the appropriate ministry for a $1.5 million grant for a project. The minister said change this and that and we will grant you $6.5 million for it.
  • 2sjh1, on 07/05/2008, -2/+3Where's the beef? No proof again?... scare scare scare!... a wonderful way to live.
    The news outlets dream up this stuff or have it instructed to them, and never show you any conclusive evidence. The Soviets are coming!!! bah.
  • Dralha, on 07/05/2008, -1/+2"The surge is working"
    • BotchaMcCoola, on 07/05/2008, -1/+1Maybe so.My stock values, cash savings, interest income, dollar value
      are all surging downward. Great times for Saudi and Iranian
      petrodollar fundersof terrorist orgs and also for war industry
      industies. It must seem like good old Vietnam days to Chinese and Russian
      arms dealers too.
    • tufftugg, on 07/05/2008, -1/+1 Hey, there's no reason for sarcasm on digg, we deal in intellectual discussion.
  • pjr12345, on 07/05/2008, -5/+1It's all America's fault.

    If the USA had not started their "unjust war for oil" they wouldn't have killed off all the adult Al Qaida members. Then Al Qaida wouldn't have to resort to recruiting children.


    • captric, on 07/05/2008, -1/+3Unjust war for oil??? You better hope to god we win the war for oil you idiot. Everything you have including the clothes you wear and the computer you demonstrate your ignorance with is the product of petro chemicals!
      • pjr12345, on 07/05/2008, -0/+2We wouldn't need oil if we all joined hands and visualized ways to develop alternative fuel sources. Our lovely planet is plagued by the mismanagement of the human cancer. We must all eliminate our need for dirty energy, even if it means we re-embrace nature in all its brazen glory. Let's get out of our comfort zones and trust Mother Earth to take care of us rather than re-shape her for our purposes.

        Kumbaya, baby!
  • tufftugg, on 07/05/2008, -0/+3 I love reading all the Boo-Rah conservative comments, better than the Saturday cartoons. I don't know if they realize they sound just as Hypocritical in their self-righteous zeal as Al Qaida does.
    • pjr12345, on 07/05/2008, -0/+3Not a thing wrong with zeal. It's the cause and object of zeal that can be troublesome.
    • captric, on 07/05/2008, -4/+1Yes - and conservatives are going around blowing up innocent women and children all over the world. Are you CANADIAN by chance - only a Canadian can be that retarded.
    • ProUSADigger, on 07/05/2008, -0/+2You do know that we, the US, are the good guys, right? The ones who
      want to kill us are the bad guys. Seems pretty straight-forward to me.
  • CHANNELOCK, on 07/05/2008, -0/+3Ya
    15 going on 30
    Just look at the angry hairy scary screaming fathers of these adorable children
    Always yelling
    "Death to Amerika"
    "Death to the Zionist"
    These fathers fondle their AK-47 more then their wife.
    Spend more time praying and bitching about the west then playing stick ball with Junior.




    .
  • DeathToAmerica, on 07/05/2008, -2/+0What are these kids saying in these videos? What kind of information are these kids reading to make them act like this? Can a steady diet of FOX news and peices of candy deterr them?
  • catfish182, on 07/05/2008, -0/+4big deal.

    Gangs in the inner cities have been doing this for years.
    • captric, on 07/05/2008, -2/+2Gangs in cities are not blowing up themselves or innocent people for their GOD!
      • catfish182, on 07/05/2008, -2/+1thier god is money and while they will not blow themselves up they will kill innocent's.

      • captric, on 07/06/2008, -0/+2Ya - well Catfish I have some bad news for you - they don't TARGET innocent civilians and take great lengths to protect innocent people.This country spends more money on humanitarian aid around the world than any country in the history of the universe.
  • Wakkyweed, on 07/05/2008, -0/+1So where is the ASCII post of Pedobear in a turban?
  • BillE3, on 07/05/2008, -1/+5Nothing new here the Islamic Brotherhood has been indoctrinating children in the schools and mosques since the late 1930's when they joined with Hitler to exterminate the Jews. The only thing new is the homicide belt. A pandemic world wide racism. They love your support, but will still cut your head off with a dull knife.
  • Fanboy88, on 07/05/2008, -3/+2Sounds like War Party propaganda. Those people are so weird compared to us. It is easier to kill them.
    • Jashobeam5, on 07/08/2008, -0/+1So, you don't understand this is a true story and the lib lies you have been fed are falsehoods? We are hated simply because we won't join them. Why don't you just let the adults care for this war and finish your math homework. In 20 years you will understand.
  • PHiZ187, on 07/05/2008, -1/+3They got the idea from Jesus Camp.
    http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0486358/
  • captric, on 07/05/2008, -1/+4Well - they should try DIGG - this is a rich environment for half educated children with left wing idealistic viewpoints about a world they barely even know exits.
  • GraveWax, on 07/05/2008, -1/+0you know there was another army that had children fighting in their ranks... it was led by George Washington.
  • qazxsw2, on 07/05/2008, -1/+0From they're point of view it is not evil - these children will have the chance to become honoured martyrs, and get their ample rewards.

    The problem comes back to religion again. This would be much less likely to happen without a stupid fantasy view of the world.

    Religions are bad news - all of them

    And why is anyone surprised / shocked ?
    A far more surprising headline would read "Al Qaeda (or any other religion based org) decides to stop recruiting children"
  • jhyeti, on 07/05/2008, -1/+1You mean Al-"CIA"da
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