Terrorists used the city to train mortar teams, and then conducted attacks against innocent civilians. In the most recent attack, two girls aged 9 and 11 were injured when two mortar rounds impacted in front of their house as they played outside. Iraqi Forces provided first aid and US Forces evacuated the 11 year old girl to a Mosul hospital for treatment.
Since the Third Armored Cavalry Regiment’s and the Third Iraqi Army Division’s effective security operations, terrorists in Tall Afar have used boys and women to conduct attacks against security forces and the people of Tall Afar.
Recently, a young boy with a learning disability was coerced into throwing hand grenades at local citizens and Iraqi Security Forces. US Soldiers captured the boy who led them to a 60 year old man who instigated the attack. The man was captured and US forces are working with Iraqi officials to find foster care for the boy.
In the past month, four other incidents of boys from age 10-12 conducting attacks have occurred. Three involved hand grenades and one killed an Iraqi civilian who had previously told the children to stop these attacks.
Previously in Tall Afar, terrorists have used children as shields to move between houses during coalition operations.
In a chilling confession, one boy who Iraqi Police captured during the heavy fighting in September admitted to murdering people and even helping hold the feet of others while the older terrorists beheaded them. He had been sodomized and brain-washed by the terrorists.
Despite the cultural and religious taboos, terrorists continue using women to attack security forces.
In late September, a woman believed to be in her early twenties and also mentally impaired, detonated an explosive belt killing herself and seven other innocent Iraqis including one child.
There is simply nothing these human monsters are not willing to do, and does on a regular basis. If the leftists have their will and the Iraqi government and the US-led coalition loses in Iraq, does anyone think the terrorists will quietly settle down and call off the jihad?
