Iraqi police stop boy wearing belt of explosives in suspected ISIS plot

The boy’s arrest comes hours after an ISIS child suicide bomber, aged 12, blew himself up on a Kurdish wedding and killed at least 51 people on Saturday. Yet, this could not be the first time ISIS strapped explosives around a child’s body to carry out their military activities.

The recent incidents have confirmed that these children are not only used in execution of prisoners as shown in the footage, but are also used to perform their deadly acts.

At least 22 of the victims were under the age of 14, a government official said. “They are being used for their operational value as well”. According to Daily Mail, Kirkuk intelligence official Chato Fadhil Humadi reported that the boy “claimed during interrogation that he had been kidnapped by masked men who put the explosives on him and sent him to the area”. Iraqi security forces largely withdrew from Kirkuk and Kurdish forces known as the peshmerga took control of the city.

“Teenagers are easier to recruit for suicide missions, especially in moments of suffering or despair having lost loved ones”, he said. Once the belt has been removed, the boy is scooped up into custody. “This is something that sadly we have to expect to increase and accelerate as the situation becomes more precarious for ISIS in the years to come”. Terrorists indoctrinate children as young as 8, using propaganda to spread their message. “Islamic State is mobilising children and youth at an alarming rate”.

Reports say the boy told police he was related to another teen who set off a bomb earlier in the evening outside a mosque in Kirkuk, killing six people.

A police source said that the boy had been born in 2000 in Mosul, which is…

A 12-year-old Nigerian girl captured with explosives in Cameroon in March told police she had been abducted by Boko Haram after the group overran her village a year earlier. In the first six months of this year alone, Unicef says it has also noted 38 child suicide bombers in West Africa.