Terrorists Intensify Targeting of Children for Jihad

Recruiting children not only ensures a next generation of fighters for a terrorist group but it’s also easier brainwashing young impressionable minds.

“It’s been done for the same reasons that Hitler had the Hitler Youth,” Charlie Winter of the Quillam Foundation, a counter-terrorism think tank based in London, told NBC News.

Children have become a key target group for recruitment by terrorist groups who are increasingly turning to social media to showcase their successful efforts in indoctrinating them for jihad. In

January, for example, Wilayat Khorasan (or "Khorasan Province"), the Islamic State (ISIS)'s branch in the Afghanistan-Pakistan region, released a propaganda video titled, "Cubs of the Caliphate Camp," that showed young boys undergoing training for jihad. Screenshots from the video showed young boys dressed in camouflage learning how to fire Kalashnikov assault rifles.

The training center, likely located in Afghanistan's eastern province of Nangarhar, is reported to be the fourth such Islamic State training facility in the region. Read it all here...................

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