Tears flow as Taliban’s baby bomber tells troops, elders of plot
posted at 4:51 pm on June 25, 2007 by Allahpundit
Background here. He seems unusually sharp for a six-year-old but the military says he’s for real. Heart-ache:
Juma said that sometime last month Taliban fighters forced him to wear a vest they said would spray out flowers when he touched a button. He said they told him that when he saw American soldiers, “throw your body at them.”
The militants cornered Juma in a Taliban-controlled district in southern Afghanistan’s Ghazni province. Their target was an impoverished youngster being raised by an older sister — but also one who proved too street-smart for their plan.
“When they first put the vest on my body I didn’t know what to think, but then I felt the bomb,” Juma told The Associated Press as he ate lamb and rice after being introduced to the elders at this joint U.S.-Afghan base in Ghazni. “After I figured out it was a bomb, I went to the Afghan soldiers for help.”…
As [the head of the village] told Juma’s story, 20 Afghan elders repeatedly clicked their tongues in sadness and disapproval. When the boy and his brother were brought in, several of the turban-wearing men welled up, wiping their eyes with handkerchiefs…
Haji Niaz Mohammad, one of the elders at the gathering, said he hoped “God makes the Afghan government strong” so it can defeat the Taliban.
“They are the enemy of Muslims and the enemy of the children,” he said, shaking his fists in anger.
If you haven’t seen them before and have a strong stomach, Rusty Shackleford has stills from the video of the 12-year-old Talib beheading an accused American spy.
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Crazy is as crazy does.
(you then equate them)
You just defined “radical”(violent) muslims as “crazy” and then went on to say Christians were also “crazy”. If you’re definition of “crazy” is a suicidal jihadist then I must show you the fallacy of your argument.
Guardian on June 26, 2007 at 2:22 PM
A moral question? Because morals detail the number of acceptable number of children we can kill?
You’re so full of crap and have yet to answer the questions others have posed.
I mean really, is zero the only acceptable answer in your mind?
And what I wrote earlier was my answer to your insipid question. There’s nothing mathmatical about war. The good guys try to keep civilian casualties low but to cease fire out of fear of killing a child is not good.
It allows evil to sheild their deeds with children.
And to everyone else, why are we caring about Islam itself. The religion isn’t the problem. The people shouting “Death to America” are. Who cares if someone calls himself a Muslim and disagrees that his religion calls for him to kill others? Is it really our job to tell them they’re wrong?
Seriously, moderate Muslims are our biggest alley in this fight. If they can change their religion, we should be the first to stand beside them.
Esthier on June 26, 2007 at 3:03 PM
Funny thing, so did we all.
However, it’s hard to lie about a bomb that’s strapped to your chest. He has no motivation to lie whatsoever. He claims his own sister worked with these jerks to slip him into that vest. Either he’s trying to get her killed, or he’s being honest.
Esthier on June 26, 2007 at 3:07 PM
I don’t think Nonfactor’s definition of crazy is that specific. What was written is that both Christians and Muslims make no sense, not that they’re both suicidally waging jihad.
This doesn’t mean that they both seem crazy for the same reasons.
For example, people with green hair might seem crazy to some people, but not crazy in the sense that they’ll go Hannibal Lector on people and start eating human flesh.
Maybe Nonfactor just doesn’t like nonalcoholic karaoke and thinks Christians are “crazy” for supporting it, while thinking Muslims are “crazy” for strapping bombs to their children.
Really, the English language allows the word “crazy” to have more than one definition.
Esthier on June 26, 2007 at 3:14 PM
Yes and yes.
You mean the question I got from the guy who didn’t even answer the question he quoted me on? I’m genuinely interested to see how many children people think it’s okay to kill to possibly kill a terrorist official. There are no unacceptable answers, but apparently that isn’t good enough for the people here seeing as you’re all too afraid to answer it.
Agreed.
Nonfactor on June 26, 2007 at 3:58 PM
Are you fu**ing kidding me? The question has been asked and answered a kajillion times here, yet you like asking it endlessly for effect. The answer is, quite simply and yet again, as few as necessary and the fewer the better.
Now, your answer is….?
Pablo on June 26, 2007 at 5:03 PM
The child appears to be older than six years of age.
Nevertheless, there is no doubt that many already know that militant Muslims have no qualms against sending innocent boys, women, children, and babies to blow themselves up in order to slaughter innocent enemy non-combatants.
William
William2006 on June 26, 2007 at 6:03 PM
The funny thing about that answer is that it’s a nonanswer (how many is “few” and what is “necessary”?). And I already answered the question you posed (without answering mine) if you’d bother to read the rest of my post.
Nonfactor on June 26, 2007 at 6:35 PM
No, it isn’t a non answer. You do your best to minimize collateral casualties, but they do not prevent you from taking the shot, legally or morally. This is not terribly complicated, and it’s been repeated ad nauseum in respone to your tired interrogetory talking point in the many forms in which you and your ilk have posed it.
However, if this is your answer…
…it’s then time for your to answer your own question.
And that answer is…?
Pablo on June 26, 2007 at 7:11 PM
Nonfactor, indeed.
Pablo on June 27, 2007 at 7:24 AM
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