Suicide Cubs of the Caliphate
Fears IS will send boys to bomb Europe
This is the dangerous trip he took to Turkey with his mum and two-year-old sister after his dad died in the war. He said: “These men are trying to escape the bombs. But this evil man is inflating the boat.” At first glance this looks like a happy playground scene, but the little girl alone and upset is Rima.
The child told experts at the centre: “Nobody plays with this girl at school, they call her ‘beggar’, tell her ‘go home’. Her teacher yells at her, nobody talks to her, she has no friends, and she is so sad.” This shocked boy had severe depression when he was brought to the centre. He lost his mother and brother during shelling in Syria.
He drew a child surrounded by falling bombs and said: “This boy is very sad, but I don’t want to talk about him.”
THE Islamic State is increasingly turning to children to carry out terror attacks – and experts think Europe could soon be targeted.
Thousands of boys are being brainwashed by the IS maniacs into becoming killers.
The lads – many of whom were abducted by the terror group in Iraq and Syria – have been dubbed the Cubs of the Caliphate. Some are being groomed as suicide bombers.
Colonel Richard Kemp, who led British forces in Afghanistan, told the Mirror last night: “We will see the Islamic State thrusting more children into the front line as their adult recruits are wiped out and Western governments become increasingly effective at stopping their citizens from travelling to join the jihad. And expect to see IS followers in Europe use children to attack us here as we have seen in Israel, Afghanistan and Turkey.”
The latest IS video shows a battalion of boys, some looking as young as four, training with AK-47s. Pictures have also emerged of a teenage boy – with a suicide bomb around his waist – being grabbed by police in the city of Kirkuk in Iraq.
A day earlier a suicide bomber thought to be aged between 12 and 14 murdered more than 50 guests at a wedding party in Gaziantep in Turkey. The country’s president said IS was probably responsible.
One reason IS chiefs are filling their ranks with children is boys are more likely than adults to slip under the radar of security forces.
Juliette Touma, of UNICEF, said “children are taking a much more active role” in the terrorists’ war.