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Purveyor

(29,876 posts)
Wed Jun 25, 2014, 09:52 PM Jun 2014

ISIS Radicals 'Brainwash' Kidnapped Kurdish Schoolchildren; 'Try to leave, we'll cut your heads off'

(CNN) -- Militants with black masks stand by as 15-year-old Mohammed watches a video of fighters cutting off a man's head.

"This is jihad for the sake of God," the men with Kalashnikov rifles say.

Mohammed begins to feel lost, confused. "Does God want me to do jihad?" he wonders.

This is Mohammed's eyewitness account, told to CNN on Wednesday in a telephone interview.

He was one of the more than 140 Kurdish schoolboys kidnapped in Syria last month by the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) and forced to take daily lessons in radical Islamic theology, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a London-based monitoring group, and local activists say.

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http://edition.cnn.com/2014/06/25/world/meast/syria-isis-schoolboys/?sr=google_news&google_editors_picks=true

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ISIS Radicals 'Brainwash' Kidnapped Kurdish Schoolchildren; 'Try to leave, we'll cut your heads off' (Original Post) Purveyor Jun 2014 OP
I'll wait for better source than CNN...who loves pumping for USA Invasions and more Death... KoKo Jun 2014 #1
You'd better believe that the MSM/MIC complex is up to their usual craziness. delrem Jun 2014 #2
The children and jihad? HeiressofBickworth Jun 2014 #3

KoKo

(84,711 posts)
1. I'll wait for better source than CNN...who loves pumping for USA Invasions and more Death...
Wed Jun 25, 2014, 10:16 PM
Jun 2014

but, thanks for posting for those of us who don't watch MSM. No doubt the MSM will be up to their usual craziness and good to know about it.

HeiressofBickworth

(2,682 posts)
3. The children and jihad?
Thu Jun 26, 2014, 12:20 AM
Jun 2014

I thought it was the incubators and Saddam. Oh, well, whatever it takes to get American public opinion behind an invasion.

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