ISIS Youth

A 2014 car bombing in Kirkuk

A 2014 car bombing in Kirkuk Source: AAP

A teenage boy ordered to carry out a suicide attack for the self-proclaimed Islamic State in Iraq before he was arrested has detailed the training he received at an IS camp for children.Speaking from a Kurdish youth centre, he has described how IS fighters taught him to use automatic weapons and promised him rewards in heaven after his death.


The youth had been ordered to blow himself up outside a stadium in the northern Iraq city of Kirkuk.

But when he hesitated, authorities apprehended him before he could complete his suicide mission.

The teenager is now awaiting trial on terrorist charges in a Kurdish youth centre.

 


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