{"id":3639,"date":"2009-04-07T09:26:58","date_gmt":"2009-04-07T14:26:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/anglicansamizdat.wordpress.com\/?p=3639"},"modified":"2009-04-07T09:26:58","modified_gmt":"2009-04-07T14:26:58","slug":"an-11-year-old-suicide-bomber","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/an-11-year-old-suicide-bomber\/","title":{"rendered":"An 11 year old suicide bomber"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The product of religious education in a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-1168224\/The-worlds-youngest-terror-suspect--ready-blow-age-11.html\" target=\"_blank\">Pakistan madrassa<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A would-be suicide bomber aged 11 has been arrested alongside Taliban fighters.<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/i\/pix\/2009\/04\/07\/article-1168224-0455B7F4000005DC-394_468x286.jpg\" alt=\"Add an Image\" width=\"234\" height=\"143\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Known only as Abdullah, the youngster was caught crossing the mountains from Pakistan&#8217;s tribal region into Afghanistan wearing a jacket packed with explosives.<\/p>\n<p>Police say he is the youngest terror recruit they have ever come across. Abdullah has also become Afghanistan&#8217;s youngest prisoner but he is still being held at a top security prison in the capital, Kabul.<\/p>\n<p>Originally from Peshawar in Pakistan, Abudullah was training to be a suicide bomber and had learned the principles of jihad &#8211; holy war &#8211; at the religious school in Pakistan where he was taught.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Neely said Abdullah&#8217;s days were spent reading the Koran and his evenings were taken up learning how to load weapons and how foreigners came to Muslim lands to kill them.<\/p>\n<p>Abdullah&#8217;s younger brother Amin, 10, is also a student at the same school.<\/p>\n<p>It is not yet clear what authorities will do with the boy but it is likely he will be returned back to his religious school.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>That last sentence is rather startling.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The product of religious education in a Pakistan madrassa: A would-be suicide bomber aged 11 has been arrested alongside Taliban fighters. Known only as Abdullah, the youngster was caught crossing the mountains from Pakistan&#8217;s tribal region into Afghanistan wearing a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/an-11-year-old-suicide-bomber\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":1,"footnotes":""},"categories":[189],"tags":[2178],"class_list":["post-3639","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-islam","tag-islam"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3639","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3639"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3639\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}