We knew it would happen sooner or later. Two summers ago when the Islamic State stormed through northern Iraq, its jihadists kidnapped thousands of boys and trained them to become a new generation of terrorists.
Now, ISIS is unleashing the young suicide bombers on the region and Western countries may be next.
This past weekend, a child suicide bomber killed 51 people and injured at least 70 at a wedding in southeastern Turkey.
And this astonishing video from Kurdistan television--NRT shows a young would-be suicide bomber being disarmed in Kirkuk, Iraq. The boy cries as he is being taken away--telling police that he was kidnapped by terrorists who forced him to wear the suicide vest.
It's heart-wrenching. Take a look:
Last spring in Erbil, Iraq, Yazidi lawmaker Vian Dakhil told me how ISIS was planning to use the boys to commit future acts of terrorism.
"Still, we have 1,000 boys between 6 to 10 years are captive in a special place in Mosul, wash the brain of them and teaching them to use the weapon, and to become a new generation, to become terrorists, a new generation of terrorists for ISIS," Dakhil warned.
So, this is what the world is up against: an Islamic caliphate that kidnaps and brainwashes innocent children. Instead of educating them to benefit society as doctors, teachers and engineers, they are taught to hate and kill.
Woe to men who exploit children for evil gain.
Jesus said, "In as much as you did it to one of the least of these, you did it to me." --Matthew 25:45