How ISIS recruits children, then kills them

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http://www.cnn.com/2016/02/19/middleeast/isis-child-soldiers/index.html

How ISIS recruits children, then kills them

By Erin McLaughlin, CNN
Updated 4:28 AM ET, Fri February 19, 2016

(CNN) Eleven-year-old Abu Imara al Omri kneels down to kiss his father's hand; a final blessing before the boy blows himself up in a truck full of explosives.

The disturbing goodbye was captured in a series of ISIS propaganda photos last month.

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"What this database points to is the fact that use of children is far more normalized," Charlie Winter, the report's co-author, told CNN. "They are not just being used to shock people in execution videos. They are being used for their operational value as well. This is something that sadly we have to expect to increase and accelerate as the situation becomes more precarious for ISIS in the years to come."

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"It's interesting the degree to which the parents are giving the organization access to their children," said Mia Bloom, the co-author of the report. "It's not a coercive endeavor like what we saw in Africa. The kids are not being kidnapped. The kids are not being coerced. For the most part, what we're seeing is kids posing with a big smile and at least in one case saying goodbye to the parents."

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