Terror Group Turns Boys and Girls Into Bombers, Spies, Executioners, Soldier, suicide bomber, executioner -- and child.
In the latest beheading videotaped by the terror group Boko Haram, one of the jihadis holding a gun on the victims looks very young. He's not identified, and U.S. intelligence analysis of the video can't pinpoint an age, but experts say it wouldn't be shocking if he were a teenager. The Nigerian Islamists are increasingly relying on children - both male and female, and some as young as 10 -- to do their dirty, deadly work.
"There are enough reports to indicate there is a pattern," said J. Peter Pham, director of the Africa Center at the Atlantic Council, who says kids are smuggling weapons, spying on Nigerian military garrisons, executing local leaders in town squares and mounting armed attacks against civilians.Read More
In the latest beheading videotaped by the terror group Boko Haram, one of the jihadis holding a gun on the victims looks very young. He's not identified, and U.S. intelligence analysis of the video can't pinpoint an age, but experts say it wouldn't be shocking if he were a teenager. The Nigerian Islamists are increasingly relying on children - both male and female, and some as young as 10 -- to do their dirty, deadly work.
"There are enough reports to indicate there is a pattern," said J. Peter Pham, director of the Africa Center at the Atlantic Council, who says kids are smuggling weapons, spying on Nigerian military garrisons, executing local leaders in town squares and mounting armed attacks against civilians.Read More
