According to
NBC, a teenage suicidebomber was today in the city of KirKuK saved from
killing himself and others.
Shaking
with fear, the teenage would-be suicide bomber is stripped of his explosive belt
in front of a crowd. The boy bursts into tears as he is dragged away by police — a chilling moment captured on video that highlights the horrifying tactic of using children to carry out acts of terror.
Officials say the teen tried and failed to detonate explosives in northern Iraq's city of Kirkuk on Sunday night. Two other attacks hit the same city that evening.
Video shows the 14-year-old quivering as Kurdish security forces hold his arms and carefully lower what appears to be an explosives belt from his waist. The boy's shirt lies discarded on the road nearby.
A ripple of applause from relieved onlookers follows the successful operation but the boy then screams — apparently in fear — as officers show him off to the crowd before taking him away in a pick-up truck.
The dramatic video was first aired by local television channel Kurdistan24.
It emerged less than 24 hours after a child suicide bomber was blamed for killing more than 50 people — including many kids — at a wedding in Gaziantep, Turkey.
Military officials in Iraq told NBC News the boy in Kirkuk was 14.
While his supposed motivation was not immediately clear — and there has been no claim of responsibility — authorities have blamed ISIS for both the Turkey blast and the two other Kirkuk bombings, one of which wounded three worshipers at the entrance to a mosque, according to Kurdish media organization Rudaw.
ISIS trains
child soldiers at special camps, and experts say the militant group brainwashes
young recruits to ensure its longevity by providing a ready-and-willing next
generation of jihadis.
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