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U.S.: Al Qaeda video shows armed boys in training
* Story Highlights
* U.S. admiral says tape made from al Qaeda
recruitment tapes
* Armed kids enact detaining bicyclist, searching
car, clearing building
* Soldiers seized video during December raid
targeting al Qaeda in Iraq leader
* Three separate roadside bombings in
south-central Iraq kill seven, wound nine
BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) -- The U.S. military said
disturbing video that shows masked boys brandishing
guns was an al Qaeda in Iraq training and recruiting
tool.
"Al Qaeda in Iraq wants to poison the next generation
of Iraqis," said Rear Adm. Gregory Smith during a
Baghdad news conference about the release of the tape.
The video, he said, showed boys, "many below age 11"
being used "to produce the next generation of al
Qaeda."
Masked boys are seen in the tape armed with grenade
launchers, AK-47s and pistols. They're standing in
front of a black banner hung on a wall, shouting
slogans. Another video shows a boy, surrounded by
automatic weapons and wearing a suicide vest,
according to The Associated Press.
Also in the video, armed boys in black hoods, with
weapons pointed, shout and force a man off his
bicycle, search a car, and clear a building while a
male voice off camera instructs them.
Smith said the military doesn't know how many children
al Qaeda in Iraq uses in its operations. He said it's
believed the boys in the video were willing
participants. VideoWatch the disturbing video »
"Al Qaeda often refers to the children as the new
generation of the mujahedeen," Smith said, using the
Arabic term for holy warriors. "We've also seen
evidence of al Qaeda entering schools, disseminating
propaganda and no doubt terrorizing the children and
their teachers."
The video indicates that al Qaeda in Iraq was
increasingly targeting children and posting propaganda
on some of the 5,000 al Qaeda-affiliated Web sites.
The U.S. military said the video excerpts were culled
from five propaganda videos obtained during a raid
targeting a senior member of al Qaeda in Iraq in
December in Diyala province.
In Baghdad on Wednesday, roadside bombings in
south-central Iraq killed seven people and wounded
nine others, Iraq's Interior Ministry said.
A roadside bomb targeting police killed four people
and wounded nine others in the south-central Iraqi
provincial capital of Diwaniya on Wednesday morning,
an Interior Ministry official told CNN. The city is
the provincial seat of the largely Shiite Qadisiya
province.
Police were transporting prisoners at the time of the
attack. The four killed, two women, a child and a man,
were civilian passers-by. Four civilians, three
detainees, and two police officers were wounded.
A roadside bomb exploded midmorning in central
Baghdad's Andalus Square, killing three civilians,
according to the ministry.
In eastern Baghdad, a third roadside bomb targeted a
U.S. military patrol, the Interior Ministry said.
There was no immediate word on casualties.
The U.S. military on Wednesday also reported the
deaths of two Sons of Iraq members who were trying to
thwart a suicide attack on Tuesday in a town northwest
of Baghdad. VideoWatch more on Sons of Iraq »
A militant detonated a suicide vest outside a photo
shop in Awad.
The pair died in the strike but "prevented the man
from detonating the explosive vest filled with ball
bearings in a crowd of local Iraqis. The selflessness
of these men allowed time for surviving witnesses to
recognize the threat and escape the blast," the
military said.
The Sons of Iraq, Concerned Local Citizens and
Awakening Councils are the names of anti-al Qaeda in
Iraq citizen groups that have emerged across the
country in recent months.
The U.S. military on Wednesday also reported a series
of raids across Iraq over the last few days that led
to the detentions of 20 suspected militants. The
operations took place in the Baghdad area, in Mosul,
and near Ramadi. Iraqi soldiers and Sons of Iraq
members also found weapons caches.
CNN's Arwa Damon contributed to this report.
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