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Afghanistan: Teen Describes Madrasah Effort To Make Him A Suicide Bomber

KABUL/PRAGUE -- Ever since he was caught three months ago in Afghanistan's Khost Province trying to carry out a suicide attack, 14-year-old Shakirullah has been pondering how he went from childhood in Pakistan to imprisonment in Kabul as an international terrorist.

But Shakirullah's childhood in the rugged mountain region near the Afghan border came to a dramatic end last fall when his family sent him to a religious boarding school -- the nearby Salib madrasah in South Waziristan -- to receive instruction from conservative Islamist clerics.

The boy says teachers had taught him the Koran for half a year, then gave him an explosives-packed suicide vest and took him across the border into Afghanistan.

Shakirullah was picked up before he could blow himself up near U.S. troops, a mission that minders at his Pakistani madrasah assured him would bring him eternal life.

He is now being held at a facility run by Afghanistan's national intelligence service -- a detention center that keeps the teenager separated from older Taliban fighters, hardened criminals, and convicted murderers.

To read the rest of this Babba Zee multi-media extravaganza, "14 year old Afghani makes it out of Pakistani Pyrotechnic Institute in one piece". [YouTube has pulled one of the videos originally used in the piece!?!]

by Babba Zee
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* 14 year old Afghani makes it out of Pakistani Pyrotechnic Institute in one piece
* Afghanistan: Teen Describes Madrasah Effort To Make Him A Suicide Bomber

Coming to the USA: the latest in suicide bomber technique.

The Department of Homeland Security has sent out a reminder to law enforcement personnel of the increased use of female suicide bombers worldwide and warning them that the tactic may be used in America.

The reminder also warns of terrorists hiding explosives in devices that "mimic the look of a pregnant woman.”

The unclassified DHS threat assessment, released Monday and obtained by NBC News, shows photographs of “pregnancy prosthetics,” hollowed-out devices that could hold explosive devices. The report says “female suicide bombers have used devices that make them appear pregnant to hide explosive devices.”

The report also reminds law enforcement officials that terrorists are using female bombers more frequently, in part because these attacks generate “more widespread media exposure.”

It adds: “Continued use of female suicide bombers-the most recent example being a 3 February 2008 attack at the main railway station in Colombo, Sri Lanka-indicates that terrorists judge this tactic as effective in increasing defenses and thwarting security measures.”

The report, marked “For Official Use Only,” is one of dozens of threat assessments issued jointly throughout the year by DHS and the FBI. The authors are quick to mention that there’s no immediate threat to the U.S.

“DHS and the FBI have no specific, credible intelligence indicating that terrorist organizations intend to utilize female suicide bombers against targets in the Homeland,” they write.

So now we have to beware of the pregnant woman sitting beside us on the airplane or bus?

This is one of those stories that make the reader pine for "the good 'ol days".

by Mondoreb
[hat tip: Freedom's Phoenix]
image: gabbybabble
Source: DHS: Suicide Bombers May Use "Pregnancy" Prosthetics



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