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Video Purports To Show Iraqi Children Playing With
Body Of U.S. Soldier
By AKI
03/15/06 -- -Rome, (AKI)
- The children climb down into the crater left by an explosion and
start picking up scraps of twisted metal. "Allah is great!" they
shout before the camera hones in to show what one boy is holding:
torn fabric, the colour of the camouflage fatigues worn by US
troops. The next scene shows the same children holding aloft a human
leg, shreds of the same camouflage fabric hang from it and the foot
is clad in a military-style boot. The children trample the leg and
kick it around in the dust.
"Today the Americans came to these parts and the buried bomb blew up
their Hummer vehicle," says a teenage boy, adding, "if Allah wants
it, the mujahadeen will win."
This grisly footage, purportedly shot in the Iraqi city of Ramadi,
has appeared in the form of a three-minute video on the Internet. It
marks the latest attempt by Jihadist militants to exploit children
for propaganda purposes.
Last week Adnkronos International (AKI) obtained a copy of another
video shot in Ramadi. On that occasion the action shown took place
in the apparently placid setting of a school classroom.
Still, sinister references to the carnage that blights Iraq on a
daily basis soon became evident. The pupils were being taught to
sing Jihad songs by hooded militants who rewarded their efforts with
pens, rulers and erasers. The video concluded with images of two
small boys, clad in black tunics and wearing black ski masks and one
holding a pistol in his tiny hand.
Unlike the professionally shot video of the schoolchildren posted on
the Internet by the Ansar al-Sunna group, part of the terror galaxy
of al-Qaeda linked Jordanian militant Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the
latest crudely filmed footage bears no indication on who its authors
might be.
But the sudden appearance of children protagonists in the videos,
indicates that the Jihadist militant groups have no intention of
sparing the young from the horrors of the fighting. It also shows
the extent of the militants' control in the restive al-Anbar
province, were Ramadi is located.
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