Quake orphans ‘adopted’ for jihad

[Mycroft]

CHILDREN orphaned by the Kashmir earthquake are being “adopted” by terrorist groups that hope to train them to fight in the jihad, or holy war, writes Dean Nelson.

Pakistan’s leading human rights organisation, the Ansar Burney Welfare Trust, said jihadi groups fighting the Indian government were taking orphans off the streets and putting them in training camps.

The organisation said it also had evidence that sympathetic government officials were passing children on to the jihadis to be looked after.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2089-1869841,00.html

Oh God, it's like they'er trying to make another "Red Garden" like in Sri Lanka.

"THE RED GARDEN"

...People assume that a cadre who wears a bunkhet and gun and explodes is matured and understands politics; is committed to the cause. No, that is not the thing at all. Where in the beginning that might have been [the case] with one or two cadre, now there is a process of creating human bombs.

The LTTE identified a place called "Red Garden." In 1991, [Tamil leader] Prabhakaran made a speech establishing the Red Garden, saying, "This is going to be the University of the Tamils." Nobody understood at that time.

"THEY ARE JUST ROBOTS"

They [LTTE] collect children from refugee camps where they have lost their parents. [Many of these are small children], five years old, six years old. They have been brought up in this Red Garden. And after two or three years they are separated ... and taken to a hidden place in the jungle. That particular place is named as "Puti de Pumi," a sacred land. This is the place where these human bombs are being produced.

http://www.pbs.org/frontlineworld/stories/srilanka/feature.html