Get 'em started while they're young

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Found this on BBC:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/6579487.stm

Taleban uses boy to behead 'spy'

The Taleban in Afghanistan have used a boy of around 12 to behead a man they accused of spying for the US.

Parts of a video of the beheading were broadcast on the Dubai-based al-Arabiya TV network.
The Taleban said the dead man, Ghulam Nabi, had given the US information which led to an air strike in which a senior Taleban commander died.
The video footage shows Mr Nabi being blindfolded with a chequered scarf and making what is said to be a confession.
The boy, wearing a camouflage jacket and wielding a large knife, denounces him as a spy and then cuts off his head.
The father of Mr Nabi, who lives in Pakistan and who confirmed that his son was the man killed in the video, said his son had been a loyal member of the Taleban.
Senior Taleban commander Akhtar Mohammad Osmani was killed during a December air strike on his car in southern Afghanistan.

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People are still getting beheaded!? What is this, 1472???

[mellowboy]

That is pretty disturbing.

[taranaki]

I'm reminded of Britains youngest murderers,Robert Thompson and Jon Venables, who at the age of 10 abducted a toddler from a shopping mall, tortured and murdered him, and left his body on a railway line. Far more scary than your case, as they were not coached into it in any way.



Or perhaps Andrew Golden, one of the two offenders in the Jonesboro school massacre of 1998. He was 11, his co-offender was 13. Between them they killed 5 and wounded 10.


Children do not need to be coached to commit unspeakable crimes. To use them in propaganda videos is pretty horrific, but no more so than any of the atrocities commited by adults both on and off camera.