February 05, 2010
9 Year Old Girls as Taliban Suicide Bombers
Meena, the girl in the interview, is 13 and says her brother pushed her to become a suicide bomber. This is Pakistan, so at 13 she's practically a grandmother.
But note that her 9 year old sister was a suicide bomber. A successful one. And by successful I mean that at 9 years old she was a mass murderer for the Taliban.
And isn't 9 young by Taliban standards? I mean, sure Mohammad was already having sex with his 9 year old wife Aisha, but suicide missions should at least wait for puberty!
Click on Meena's image to watch the video.
Exit question: Given that it's the Pakistani government is pushing this story, isn't there some amount of cognitive dissonance for Pakistanis who find it easy to believe that the Taliban recruit 9 year old girls for suicide missions but think that it's impossible that al Qaeda would use Khalid Shiekh Mohammad's niece for fund raising?
Thanks to Square Mile Wife.
