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Politics : The Truth About Islam
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To: GROUND ZERO™ who wrote (1056)9/19/2006 1:12:53 PM
From: Proud_Infidel  Read Replies (2) of 20106
 
American soldiers say militias recruit Iraqi kids to attack them
AP ^ | September 18 2006

wavy.com

In America, six-year-olds are usually in first grade. In Iraq, some are being recruited by militias.

That's what U-S soldiers say is going on in Baghdad's Sadr City neighborhood, the stronghold of a radical cleric.

The militias are assembling gangs of as many as 100 children, some as young as six or seven. Their mission: to throw gasoline bombs and stones at passing U-S convoys. The hope is that the troops will be lured into sniper ambushes.

The soldiers say they've seen young men with bandanas covering their faces, talking to kids before such incidents. Sometimes the children are given slingshots.

An aide to the cleric denies it. But soldiers say there's no mistaking what's going on. And they say they're not firing back because, as one lieutenant puts it, a single round fired anywhere near a gang of children would be "like the shot heard 'round the world."

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