{"id":13057,"date":"2009-07-29T08:33:42","date_gmt":"2009-07-29T13:33:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=13057"},"modified":"2009-07-29T08:33:42","modified_gmt":"2009-07-29T13:33:42","slug":"pakistan-free-child-warriors-from-taliban","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=13057","title":{"rendered":"Pakistan free child-warriors from Taliban"},"content":{"rendered":"

This morning the Washington Times<\/a> reports that Pakistani security forces freed several children that had been sold to the Taliban, apparently by their parents, to serve as soldiers or suicide bombers;<\/p>\n

“It seems that there are some 300 to 400 such children who the Taliban had taken forcibly or who they were training,” Gen. Ahmed said.<\/p>\n

The Washington Times, citing Pentagon and Pakistani officials, reported July 2 that the top Pakistani Taliban leader, Baitullah Mehsud, has been buying children as young as 7 to serve as suicide bombers, and that the going price for child bombers was between $7,000 and $14,000.<\/p>\n

Maj. Nasir Ali, spokesman for the forces in Swat, said most of the several children who had been rescued were taken from a Taliban training camp in Swat after a firefight, although some had turned themselves in later. He did not say when the rescue occurred. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

One sixteen-year-old claims he was abducted while playing cricket with his friends.<\/p>\n

I don’t understand how folks can say that we need to leave Afghanistan and abandon the fight against the Taliban. They are clearly one of the most evil forces in the world. Granted, the war against them has left much to be desired, but that’s certainly no reason to let them regain a seat of power in the region. <\/p>\n

I read something the other day from the Left that claims we’re not helping the Afghan people, that the Taliban throw acid on young girls’ faces, murder teachers, use children as warriors and that’s why we should leave. That makes absolutely no sense to me. Especially since it was imperative that we run the Serbs out of Kosovo for doing much tamer stuff. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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