Author: PTI
Publication: The New Indian Express
Date: July 4, 2009
URL: http://www.expressbuzz.com/edition/print.aspx?artid=BttfhMoXor0=
Turning suicide bombing into a "production
output" Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan chief Baitullah Mehsud is spending
up to Rs One million to buy children who could be made suicide bombers, US
media today quoted Pakistani and American officials as saying.
A Pakistani official told the Washington Times
that the price for child bombers was Rs 500,000 to Rs One million.
"Mehsud has turned suicide bombing into
a production output, not unlike the way Toyota outputs cars," a US defence
official said, adding the suicide bombers when ready could be sold, bartered
or even picked up by other groups.
The price of a child depended on need of the
bomber, and how close he was expected to hit the target.
A former Afghan militant said, "Fighting is not the issue What is unusual
is making these young fighters into suicide bombers It is a crime against
God.
