Al Qaeda's Child Warriors

We've seen the Palestinians do it. African thugs do it. So why not al Qaeda?

A new propaganda video from the al Qaeda-linked Islamic State of Iraq (ISI) features small children with AK-47 assault rifles. The narrator of the video refers to these young boys as the "new generation" of mujahedeen.

In one scene, a small child who appears to be around seven- or eight-years-old is holding an AK-47 and reciting what he says are quotes from the prophet Mohammed. Then a group of small children are seen, each holding an AK-47.

The next step is that they'll start using women (even better if pregnant), mentally ill and the infirm to act as suicide bombers. One possible way to look at this development is that al Qaeda is scraping the bottom of the barrel because al Qaeda has run out of military aged men to use as cannon fodder.