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Thursday, July 02, 2009

Cowering Behind The Kids
by Hal_10000

Jesus:

Pakistan’s top Taliban leader, Baitullah Mehsud, is buying children as young as 7 to serve as suicide bombers in the growing spate of attacks against Pakistani, Afghan and U.S. targets, U.S. Defense Department and Pakistani officials say.

A Pakistani official, who spoke on the condition that he not be named because of the sensitive nature of the topic, said the going price for child bombers was $7,000 to $14,000 - huge sums in Pakistan, where per-capita income is about $2,600 a year.

“[Mehsud] has turned suicide bombing into a production output, not unlike [the way] Toyota outputs cars,” a U.S. Defense Department official told reporters recently. He spoke on the condition that he not be named because of ongoing intelligence efforts to catch Mehsud, a prime target for a U.S. and Pakistani anti-Taliban campaign.

The article goes on to note that the use of boy soldiers is not unusual in the region.  But this is different.  This is kidnapping other people’s children and tying bombs to them—an act of such tremendous encourage, it could only have come from the cowardly Taliban.

Mehsud, in case you don’t know, is the Bhutto-murdering fucker we almost got with a Predator last week.  I was disappointed then but now I’m sort of hoping we’ll catch him alive.  In keeping with our renewed commitments to the Geneva Conventions and the rule of law, I propose we don’t torture him.  I propose we don’t even imprison him.  We’ll just cut him loose on the streets of Karachi with some of the parents whose babies he bought and murdered.

Posted by Hal_10000 on 07/02/09 at 06:15 PM in War on Terror/Axis of Evil  • (0) Trackbacks • Permalink • Discuss this in the forums
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