European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - June 27, 2007, Darmstadt, Hesse                              Wed 2007 stars and stripes Mideast edition Page 3 Taliban recruits afghan children poor kids sent on suicide missions by Monte Morin stars and stripes Afghanistan the boy looked to be no More than 6 years a officer As the tiny afghan wandered onto the District governors he grew More scared and hed been Given special instructions on what to do once he but now he  remember a the boy walked up to a guard and explained his i forgot what to the boy the guard asked the child what on Earth he was talking the boy lifted his shirt and revealed a packed explosives i forgot what i was supposed to do with the boy As and nato forces struggle to stamp out a rekindled Taliban insurgency in Afghani stans Southern and Eastern offic ers and cultural advisers say enemy fighters Are upping the Ante by employing children and teens in a wave of deadly suicide bomb by targeting children in impoverished Vil Taliban fighters and their cohorts have used promises of education and simply food to lure Young boys to neighbouring Pakistan for indoctrination and training As in surgent suicide the military while training Camps in the ungoverned Border regions of Pakistan have Long served As the Breeding ground for mid level Taliban the use of Young afghan villagers As suicide bombers is a recent chilling develop authorities in some instances such As the failed at tempt two months ago to use a boy in a suicide attack on a District governors compound in Ghazi province insurgents simply be Friend a susceptible boy and pressure him to conduct the in the Ghazi the boy bomber was Monte and stripes afghan National army officers Greet two Young boys in the Village of Gongway in the Andar District of Ghazi province military authorities say Taliban fighters Are recruiting Young boys and teens to become suicide fatherless and his Mother was unable to sup port his according to officials who said they were briefed on the incident by afghan government and Security that How horrible these Guys said Matt a spokesman for the 2nd 508th Parachute infantry regi 4th brigade combat 82nd air borne who described the Ghazi Inci Dent after being briefed about they took a six Earold and put a suicide Belt on i How Low can you get in a country plagued by grinding Money is As much a Taliban weapon As Are antitank Kalashnikov rifles and intimidation in a series of interviews conducted by cultural villagers in the troubled Andar District of Ghazi province have said that Taliban fighters Are targeting children be tween the Ages of 8 and 12 and luring them to or fundamentalist islamic religious in once they get to Pakistan there brain washed into becoming suicide a intelligence officer in Small villages in the Andar a Vil Lage the size of 300 people can lose Between 5 and 10 Young boys a according to offic ers in task Force while adult afghans Are More Likely to see through the Taliban religious and ideological children Are much More easily influenced and commanders these kids dont have any concept of death they dont understand what there being asked to said Aaron co Mander of company 2nd 508th Parachute infantry email Monte Morin at  Iraq sunni official accused in assassination try by Sinan Salaheddin the associated press Baghdad an arrest War rant was issued against Iraq sunni culture and police raided his Home on tuesday after he was accused of ordering a 2005 assassination attempt against a secular sunni politician that killed his two officials the move Drew Sharp condemnation from the main sunni Politi Cal which demanded the Deci Sion be a sunni tribal Sheik also was killed in a drive by shooting in southwestern police the latest example in an increasingly violent internal sunni Power the attack occurred a Day after a suicide bombing against a gathering of tribal sheiks at a hotel clarification in june 25 the map of Iraq mentioned on the front Page did not go to All areas Michael Lowell of Van and staff James Lesco of Colorado search for an insurgent who lobbed a grenade at their patrol tuesday in Baghdad Adham Yah in culture minister Asad Kamal who was not Home during the was identified by two suspected militants As the Mastermind of a ambush against the parliamentary Candi Date mitral according to a a government Ala Lusi escaped unharmed but two of his sons were the two who planned and car ried out the killings of mitral Lalusis two sons confessed that they took orders from Aldabbagh he added that a Hashimi was a mosque Imam at the Aldabbagh said the arrest War rant was issued for the killings of Lalusis not the failed at tempt against the he said Al Hashimi status As a Cabi net minister provides no immune a Hashimi was the first full Cabinet minister to face Al though iraqi authorities have arrested other senior including the Deputy health minis who was linked to shiite Mili Tiamen Loyal to Radical cleric Muntada prime minister Nouri a has promised not to let political or sectarian considerations Stop him from cracking Down on i but the warrant against a prominent sunni politician could set Back efforts to bring the disaffected minority into the political Al Hashimi the hard line Congress of the people of condemned the arrest War rant and warned the shiite Domi rated government to avoid play ing with fire by continuing the policy of fabricating lies to exclude sunni politicians and officials from the iraqi the military denied any involvement in the deaths in Iraq the associated press As of at least members of the military have died since the beginning of the Iraq War in March according to an associated press the figure includes seven military at least died As a result of hostile according to the Mili Tarys the a count is 24 higher than the defense depart ments last updated Mon Day at 10 the British military has re ported 153 deaths 33 18 20 bul 13 11 seven Al five Slova four three Esto Netherlands and two each and Hun Romania and South one death the latest deaths reported by the military two soldiers were killed monday during combat in the latest identifications re ported by the military army Joseph died saturday in Mosul in a non combat incident assigned to the 27th brigade support Bat 4th brigade combat 1st cavalry fort army Jerimiah killed thursday in Baghdad when his vehicle was struck by a rocket propelled grenade As signed to the 2nd 12th infantry 2nd brigade combat 2nd in Fantry fort five soldiers were killed thursday by an explosive in All were assigned to the 1st 26th infantry 2nd brigade com Bat 1st infantry Divi killed were army Al Phonso Montenegro far army Ryan Oklahoma City army Daniel Coconut army Anthony he Lake and army Thomas Leem four soldiers were killed wednesday in Baghdad when their vehicle struck an expo All were assigned to the 1st 64th Armor regi 2nd brigade combat 3rd infantry fort killed were army Sid Missouri army staff Darren Hub army Joe Charfauros Mariana islands and army David 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