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Pak Jihadis training children as"future terrorists"!
Publish Date : 12/2/2004 1:51:00 PM   Source : Culture and Community News

Pakistan's military has said that foreign
militants  are kidnapping children and training them  as  "future
terrorists" in the tribal areas adjoining Afghanistan.
 
Khalid  is also one of the several such teenagers who  have  been
receiving  jihadi training from the militants.  So  indoctrinated
have these children become with the aspect of jihad, that without
even understanding the implications a religious intolerant  group
like  the  Taliban will have on society,  they  are  vociferously
espousing  jihad  and  the establishment  of  a  puritan  Islamic
government based on Sharia in Afghanistan.
"  I  want  Islam, the government of Taliban.  The  entire  world
understands that the Taliban is a true Islamic government. I know
that Osama bin Laden is a good man," Khalid was quoted as saying.
Even military officials acknowledge that the children though seem
innocent  to  the  eye are in fact the terrorist  of  the  future
generations.
 
" First  of all, you will probably be perturbed by  the   thought
that children who are not even capable of wiping their noses,  so
how can they be terrorists? They are the future terrorists.  They
are  terrorists  of the future," Lt General Safdar  Hussain,  the
military chief of Pakistan NWFP was quoted as saying by a foreign
news agency.
 
He  further added that terrorists have as part of their  plan  to
escape  suspicion  from  the  authorities  started  using   young
children for their clandestine activities.
 
" So these are the best people to be used for terrorism,  because
no  one  can suspect that such a small child can be  involved  in
terrorist  activities.  Or if he is travelling from  Point  A  to
Point  B, I think one would be embarrassed to search him  because
what  could one expect to find on the child? Therefore  they  are
using  these tactics of bringing these small children  here,  and
making them do things in such a way that the snake is clubbed  to
death but the club is not damaged," he added.
 
Khalid,  who  was  just like any other  teenager  before  he  was
abducted  from  his  home in Tajikistan along with  four  of  his
school  mates  while they were on their way to  school  in  their
village  about 45 minutes drive from the Tajik  capital  Dushanbe
and  smuggled  into  the  tribal heartland  of  Pakistan  in  the
mountainous region adjoining Afghanistan, has after having  spent
only a little of more than a month evolved into a hardline Muslim
if not a through and through militant.
 
Military  officials say that the trend is very disturbing and  is
probably  a  move  by Tajik militant Qari  Tahir  Yuldashev,  the
charismatic successor of IMU leader Juma Namangani to use central
Asian kids for their clandestine missions and attacks on security
forces in Pakistan's tribal areas.
 
Hussain further acknowledge that most of the children have either
been  like Khalid, kidnapped, or have been sold by their  parents
out of sheer poverty that plagues Tajikistan.
 
" All the foreigners are young boys whose average age is 16 or 17
years, and it is my assessment that most of them have either been
kidnapped or they were sold," Hussain said.
 
Khalid who says that he has never met Yuldashev and seen him only
in pictures, however does not hesitate to call him a "mujahid".
 
However,  Pakistani officials are not taking any chances and  are
thoroughly  interrogating  these  youngsters more  so  after  the
escapades of local militant leader Abdullah Mehsud, and are  also
initiating plans to educate and rehabilitate the children who are
genuinely repentant. (ANI)