Rochard

Looks like they are running out people to use as bombers... and are turning to retarded women and kids.... What a bunch of corwards!

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Al Qaeda videos seized by U.S. forces show Iraqi children younger than 11 carrying out mock kidnappings and attacks, the U.S. military and Iraqi officials said on Wednesday.

Videos played to media showed about 20 boys, mostly under 11, wearing balaclavas and brandishing AK-47 assault rifles and rocket-propelled grenade launchers almost as big as themselves.

"This is not the first time we've observed such material but the volume and content was the most significant and disturbing we have found to date," said U.S. military spokesman Rear Admiral Gregory Smith.

Smith said the videos were meant to spread al Qaeda's message among the young rather than train the boys for missions.

Five videos of the children were seized during an operation against the Sunni Islamist militants in early December 2007.

Violence has fallen across Iraq, with attacks down 60 percent since last June, but Smith said al Qaeda was still the greatest threat to security in Iraq.

He said the U.S. military did not know exactly where or when the films were made, or how many children were involved.

The boys were seen stopping a man on a bike and taking him hostage, forcing passengers from a car and holding guns to their heads, and practicing assaults on houses as trainers shouted instructions.

MOVIE SCRIPT

Other seized pictures showed a young boy wearing a "suicide vest," while U.S. soldiers had also found a written proposal for a movie script about training children for warfare.

"The script was to include children interrogating and executing victims, planting improvised explosive devices and conducting sniper attacks," Smith said, adding al Qaeda had also infiltrated schools to disseminate propaganda.

U.S. commanders say al Qaeda have been using different tactics recently as security clampdowns have hampered their ability to carry out large-scale bomb attacks.

Smith said there had been two recent suicide bombings by 15-year-old boys, while the number of attacks involving women had also increased.

Last week two women, said by the U.S. military and Iraqi officials to be mentally impaired and duped by al Qaeda, blew themselves up at popular pet markets, killing 99 people in the deadliest attack in Baghdad for nine months.

U.S. and Iraqi forces this year have launched offensives across central and northern Iraq where al Qaeda has regrouped after being forced from strongholds in western Iraq's Anbar province and around Baghdad in security crackdowns last year.

Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki has ordered a "decisive" push in northern Mosul to force al Qaeda fighters from their last urban stronghold in Iraq.

Baghdad security spokesman Major-General Qassim Moussawi said violence in January had plummeted compared with a year ago, when security forces were trying to stave off civil war between majority Shi'ites and minority Sunni Arabs.

According to Moussawi's figures, 1,958 people were killed in Baghdad in January 2007 compared with 16 last month. However figures compiled by Reuters showed 27 civilians died violently in Baghdad in the last week of January 2008 alone.

Improving security was not the main reason why Iraqi refugees were returning home from Syria, where about 2 million Iraqis had fled to escape sectarian violence, a United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) report said.

The report found 46.1 percent of a sample of 110 Iraqis interviewed in Damascus said they could no longer afford to live in Syria while 14.1 percent cited improved security.
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mrwilson

Yeh i seent his shit on the new earlier today, how fucked up :|