Iraqi police detained an 11-year-old boy near a Shi’ite mosque in Kirkuk city on Sunday, Aug. 21, after removing a suicide vest from him.
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“He would tell me about the jihad, and hand over booklets glorifying mujahideen’s victories against infidels”. In that attack, only the bomber died but two other people were injured.
The devastating bombing at a wedding in southeastern Turkey that killed at least 50 people late Saturday also was carried out by a child, according to Turkish authorities.
The United States estimates that USA and coalition jets have killed 45,000 Islamic State militants since an air campaign began two years ago.
Meanwhile, Turkish president Tayyip Erdogan said it was likely that ISIS was behind the attack which saw a bomber, thought to be aged between 12 and 14, blow up people dancing in the street at a party in the city of Gaziantep last night. United Nations report says that one in five Boko Haram suicide bombers has been a child and 75 percent of the children used were girls as they are believed to arouse less suspicion.
The boy, Humadi added, was displaced from the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria-held city of Mosul, Iraq’s second largest city, by recent military operations in the area.
But the practice is not restricted to the Islamic State and has been used by other militant groups.
That attack was the latest in a series of terrorist acts in Turkey aimed at Kurish people and created to inflame ethnic tensions. IS claimed responsibility and released a photo of the attacker in which he appears to be no more than 16 years old. It said that there were 44 child suicide bombings in West Africa in 2015, up from four in 2014, and that most of the attacks were carried out in Cameroon and Nigeria.
A report published by the Combating Terrorism Centre early this year stated that ISIS increasingly filled its ranks with child soldiers while suffering losses from the airstrikes and ground campaign against the terrorists.
The terror group uses pictures of tanks, ammunition and swords to help children remember certain letters in its weird learning aid. The leader of Al-Qaeda in Iraq, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, used teenagers as suicide bombers to fight the American occupation in Iraq before he was killed in a U.S. airstrike in 2006.
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The observatory said DAESH had used 18 children as suicide bombers so far that year.
