ISIS prepared 1,000 teenage suicide bombers

The so-called Islamic State (IS) has trained many teenage suicide bombers in Mosul and Raqqa to use them in attacking different areas in Iraq and Syria, said the Iraqi Human Rights High Commission on Friday.

In a statement to Kurdistan24, Masrour Aswad, a member of the High Commission of Human Rights in Iraq, stated that his department acquired information that IS has trained 600 – 1,000 teenagers as suicide bombers.

“The teenagers are getting trained in Mosul [northern Iraq] and Raqqa [northeastern Syria],” Aswad said.

According to him, their age ranges between 12-16-years-old, and almost all of them are from Iraq and Syria.

Aswad noted that IS continues to take advantage of teenagers because they are easily manipulated, directing them toward security forces or civilians’ positions.

Moreover, he said that the use of suicide bombers was common among the jihadist group before.

However, Aswad added that because IS have been weakened by the Iraqi and Kurdish security forces, they plan to use this tactic more often.

On Aug. 21, Kirkuk Province police and security forces arrested an Arab boy clad in a suicide vest intending to detonate the explosive in the neighborhood of Tis’een.

The General Director of Kirkuk Police Forces Khattab Omar said the teenager sent by IS was born in 2001 and is originally from Mosul.

“We had information before that IS had sent suicide bombers to Kirkuk,” he said.

The exclusive footage below shows the moment when Kirkuk security and police personnel defuse and remove a suicide vest on the teenager sent by IS

Source: /Kurdistan24