Reply #35: The article doesn't even match the MEMRI translation.

[allemand]

Hezbollah has begun replenishing its ranks after more than a month of war with Israel by recruiting the children of its fallen fighters, according to the Egyptian weekly Roz Al-Yusuf.

The newspaper reported that in recent weeks Hezbollah has organized more than 2,000 children aged 10-15 into armed militias. The Mahdi Boy Scouts, a Hezbollah-affiliated youth movement, has been tasked with training the youngsters to sacrifice their lives attacking Israel.

Today these children are referred to as "future suicides," the report said, adding that they can now be seen wearing "camouflage army uniforms, their faces black," and that they have been made to "take the Jihad and Holy War oath."

http://www.allheadlinenews.com/articles/7004739966

Compare this to the MEMRI translation:

According to Roz Al-Yusuf, "Hizbullah has recruited over 2,000 innocent children aged 10-15 to form armed militias. Before the recent war with Israel, these children appeared only in the annual Jerusalem Day celebrations, and were referred to as the 'December 14 Units,' but today they are called istishhadiyun <'martyrs'>..."

"Hizbullah has customarily recruited youths and children and trained them to fight from a very early age. These are children barely 10 years old, who wear camouflage uniforms, cover their faces with black paint, swear to wage jihad, and join the Mahdi Scouts ...

"The Mahdi Scouts organization was founded in Lebanon on May 5, 1985... According to the organization's website, the number of who had undergone training by the end of 2004 was 1,491, and the number of scout groups which had joined was 449, with a membership of 41,960. According to the organization's most recent statistics, since 2004, 120 of its members have been ready to become martyrs.

http://www.memri.org/bin/opener_latest.cgi?ID=SD127606

So the number of 2,000 scouts who underwent training refers to the period from "May 5, 1985" to "the end of 2004".