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Terror trainees: New ISIS video shows indoctrination of kids as young as 5
Published
February 23, 2015
The
latest disturbing video from ISIS shows what the Islamist group touts as the
next generation of jihadist killers, pint-sized terror trainees who appear to
be as young as 5 participating in drills and reciting verses from the Koran.
The
9-minute video released Monday shows about 70 camouflage-clad kids, who are
reportedly the children of foreign fighters who have flocked to Iraq and Syria
to join the Islamist army. An instructor states in Arabic that most of the
children are in the second phase of training and that they represent the
"next generation" of ISIS. The video illustrates the charge in a UN Human Rights Council report last year that determined
that Islamic State “has established training camps to recruit children into
armed roles under the guise of education.”
“At
the camps, the children recruited received weapons training and religious
education,” the report stated. “The existence of such camps seems to indicate
that ISIS systematically provides weapons training for children.
"Subsequently,
they were deployed in active combat during military operations, including
suicide-bombing missions," it stated.
In
the video, the children wear ISIS' trademark black headbands and are seen
answering religious questions and quoting the Koran against a soundtrack of
Arabic music. The clip provides a disturbing snapshot into how the extremist
group is taking young innocent children and turning them into their own
depraved version of Nazi Germany’s Hitler youth,
experts said.
“The existence of such camps seems to indicate that ISIS systematically provides weapons training for children."- UN report on ISIS
The
tape, which was posted on the Internet, was apparently shot at a military
training center the Islamic State calls the Al Farouk Institute for Cubs in
Raqqa, Syria. The video cannot be independently verified. Several scenes show
the youngsters kneeling in prayer with a trainer kneeling in prayer in front of
them with a pair of rifles. There is little laughter, even as the boys in the
video are shown eating a post-prayer meal.
"If
you believe the ISIS caliphate is the best place to be and Allah commands you
to go there, you'd want your family there, too," said Ryan Mauro, a
national security analyst for the Clarion Project, a New York-based research
institute that tracks global terrorism. "For ISIS supporters, this is like
signing your kid up for the best private school."
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The young jihadists are believed to be the
children of foreign fighters.
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The
video is designed to send a message that ISIS is here to stay, Mauro added.
"ISIS
is emphasizing its child recruits because it obviously makes for good footage
but also to emphasize this is a generational struggle," Mauro said.
"You can kill off the current leaders and fighters, but their kids will
fight on. It makes it harder to celebrate ISIS' losses if you know their
manpower will be replenished with brainwashed children."
Author
and former radical Islamist Maajid Nawaz told Fox & Friends Monday the
video of the jihadi cubs is disturbing and underscores the militant
organization’s long-range objective.
“I
think this is shocking for everyone who sees such images,” he said. “Islamic
State from the beginning has been saying that they’re planning not just to
build a state but a new generation of jihadists who have been raised on their
diet of blood and violence.”
ISIS
has long been known to employ child soldiers, deploying them as human shields,
suicide bombers -- and even executioners. In one horrifying video the terror
group released in January, a young boy is shown executing a pair of captives
the terror group claims were Russian spies. The video shows a young boy of 10
or less shooting the two men repeatedly in the head with a pistol.
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Experts say the message is intended to show
the West that ISIS plans to be around for generations.
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Syrians
in Raqqa have previously reported that the terrorist army has forced children
into its ranks and indoctrinated them in its bloodthirsty ways. One man told
the website Syria
Deeply.org that his 13-year-old son was forced to attend a training camp
where he underwent a form of “brainwashing the children.” When the boy
returned, his mother found a blond, blue-eyed doll – along with a large knife
given to her son by his ISIS supervisors, in his bag. The boy told his parents
the materials were given to children to practice beheading Westerners,
according to the report.
Other
images and video have emerged on social media from the region showing proud
foreign fighters with young children, some even holding the severed heads of
Islamic State's enemies.
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