If They Strapped Bombs on Dogs or Horses…

Heather Robinson looks at the evil phenomenon of using children as suicide bombers. She details the methods and reasons behind this horrid practice.
FROM POLITICALMAVINS.COM:
If They Strapped Bombs on Dogs or Horses…
By Heather Robinson
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Last month’s Annapolis conference, like Oslo, was exquisite kabuki theater, in which leaders gathered to pretend that the central issue of the Arab/Israeli conflict is land, not irrational hatred, corruption, and brainwashing of the next generation of “martyrs.” Meanwhile, as leaders nitpick over borders and definitions, the indoctrination of Arab Muslim children to become suicidal murderers continues on a mass scale.
On Wednesday I attended a talk at National Defense University in Washington D.C. by Brooke Goldstein, director of the legal project at Daniel Pipes’ Middle East Forum, whose film on the brainwashing and recruitment of Palestinian children, “The Making of a Martyr,” I’ve written about for The New York Sun. Ms. Goldstein, who at 24 went into the West Bank without a weapon or bodyguard and spoke directly to dozens of Palestinian children, the parents of suicide bombers, and the terrorists who recruit suicide bombers, has experienced firsthand what the free world is up against.
One of her points in Wednesday’s talk was that the brainwashing, recruitment, and manipulation of children to turn themselves into human bombs occur not just in the Palestinian territories, but also in Afghanistan and Iraq. “When you hear stories about suicide bombers in Iraq and Afghanistan, the media seldom include the ages of the bombers, who are often teenagers, and sometimes children,” she said.
One example she cited was the case, in June, of a 6-year-old boy who wandered up to a NATO checkpoint in Afghanistan wearing an explosive-laden vest, asking the officers what the vest was for.
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