READER COMMENTS

Peace be upon you…

Imam Al-Mahdi will appear soon and he will take revenge upon all those villains, as we absolutely trust in God the Almighty and know that He supports the oppressed people against the oppressors.

Imam Al-Mahdi will appear soon and he will take revenge upon all the villains. We absolutely trust in God the Almighty, and He will support the oppressed people in the face of the oppressors.

The Arab nation has abandoned the religion as well as the teachings and recommendations of the Prophet, peace be upon him. We call on those groups that claim that they represent Islam, while they are far from it, to fear God in our children, whether in Iraq, Lebanon, Palestine or any other place on earth, because our future is contingent on the new generations. Hence, this generation must learn and enjoy stability. Those children are the hope of our nation, and God will grant the Muslims victory and raise the word of Islam everywhere. We ask God to destroy whoever wants to harm this nation. God is the guide.

Believe me, the most failed government on earth is the Iraqi government. They are liars and there is no development. They just play with the minds of the poor, especially the youth, especially orphans and innocent people, including the Sabians. May God not help you in this world or in the hereafter, you meanest of people, who have no conscience.

The essay is just like a silly Indian movie. It is rejecting fiction.

The children in Iraq are in urgent need of care, because neglecting the children of Iraq makes them fail in life and fail in trivial things that benefit neither them nor the country. Of course, over time, this destroys their future. The government must provide a good education system that creates a desire among the children to learn and develop themselves all the time. The other aspects that are related to the children should also be given more attention. This is regarding children in general; As for the children who need special care, those are the children who were kidnapped by the terrorists in an attempt to recruit them in one way or another, and who were sent to special terrorist camps to be trained and to have terrorist thoughts implanted in their minds from their early childhood. Of course, these thoughts will be engraved in the child’s mind and heart and will make him follow the road of crime when he grows up. Such children need special care; the government must pay attention to this issue and treat those children, because they need special help to get rid of what has been implanted in their minds. They should also be allowed to interact and play with the other children in a gradual way, until they completely forget terrorism, suffering, training on guns, explosives, bombs, and killing. Otherwise, they will represent a threat to the future of the country and worsen their suffering, and the result will be catastrophic.

The children in any society are the most important group and should get the greatest official care. In Iraq, children are in urgent need of interest on the part of the Iraqi government, because children in Iraq are ignored and do not enjoy the simplest rights of the children all over the world. They have no playgrounds or parks that are easily accessible. Moreover, children in Iraq suffer from many psychological shocks, due to terrorism and its operations, as well as the wars that Iraq had launched. The result was that the Iraqi child became disinterested in the children’s tendencies in general. He now has a memory loaded with painful scenes and issues that have perplexed the mentality of the Iraqi child greatly. On the other hand, many of the Iraqi children have left schools and have gone to work in professions that do not suit their age, due to poverty, which has forced families to send their children to work in inappropriate professions to improve their living conditions. Hence, I see that the government is required to work seriously and hard to solve this problem, to rebuild the Iraqi child and to save him from the psychological complexes from which he suffers because of the surrounding environment. The government’s kindness must include all the Iraqi children, even those who fell into the hand of the terrorists and killers, who exploited their naiveté and simple minds and recruited many of them to help terrorism in some way or another. That is because children are not mentally mature enough to protect themselves from the danger of terrorism. Consequently, the government should not blame those children or consider them responsible for the acts of terrorism, because they are mere innocent victims who fell into the hands of the criminal killers of the rotten organization of Al-Qaeda.

God willing, your country will continue to go up and up, and will be able to restore its past dignity. It will be able to return your sons and protect you! May Allah have mercy on Saddam!

The failure of terrorism and its evil members has made them turn to adopting a new and different strategy in conducting their terrorist operations against unarmed innocent civilians. In fact, they have resorted to engaging children. They kidnap children and oblige them to wear explosive belts, and then they detonate them via remote controls. Terrorists disregard human rights and particularly children’s rights and they disregard religion, although they claim that they represent religion. On the contrary, religion forbids the exploitation of children in such issues. This proves that Al-Qaeda has nothing to do with Islam. Al-Qaeda members try to move in the name of religion in order to win the sympathy of idiots whose knowledge about religion is superficial. That shows how evil Al-Qaeda is. In fact, Al-Qaeda doesn’t hesitate to apply any method and any approach to achieve its sick objectives, which aim to destroy the country’s infrastructure, to cause a civil war and to hamper the ongoing political process. However, those terrorist groups have to recognize that Iraqis have become more determined to fight terrorism and eradicate it, given that they have perceived the deterioration of Al-Qaeda and its exploitation of children to conduct its operations. In this regard, we see that the brave police services didn’t turn a blind eye to those terrorist movements to kidnap children engaging them in their cowardly operations. In fact, the police forces are hunting terrorists down in order to eradicate them. Of late, the police forces freed a group of children who were kidnapped by some armed terrorist groups. Terrorists aimed to oblige those children to harm innocent citizens.

Terrorism and its criminal terrorists should know that the Iraqis will go forward and that the cowardly acts of the terrorists will not change the Iraqi traditions and beliefs that impose upon them the visitation of the sacred thresholds and shrines. These criminal acts will only strengthen their determination to continue their procession, and the blood of the children and martyrs who irrigated Iraq’s land with their pure blood will be a torch that lights the way for others to save Iraq, and defeat and expel terrorism from Iraq forever.

The kidnapped child is forced to obey the orders of the members of Al-Qaeda, as he is frightened and knows how merciless they are. On the other hand, they brainwash the kidnapped children at the hands of the other children who work with the terrorists, to convince them to participate in the videos and the shows. They also tell the child that if he does not do what they ask him to do, he will be killed or raped, as they do with all the kidnapped children. In fact, kidnapping those children is a major crime, and I do not know how the terrorists, who kidnap the children and turn them into terrorists, will be treated when the security forces arrest them. The locations where the kidnapped children are trained and recruited must be destroyed. Eliminating those criminals is extremely important, and dismantling these cells is also important, in order to end terrorism. The problem is that when the children grow up, they will certainly become terrorists, which means that the Al-Qaeda organization will never end. Of course, the whole world seeks to destroy this terrorist organization; hence, there is an urgent need for cooperation to locate the places where the children are trained, to destroy them and take the children to the homeless children facilities, and to rehabilitate them so they can return to society.

The great efforts of the Iraqi Police Forces have contributed a lot in the successful security achievements in the country.

Thanks to God, the Iraqi forces succeeded in freeing more than thirteen children who were kidnapped by Al-Qaeda. This terrorist organization kidnaps children and engages them in conducting some terrorist operations. In fact, terrorists load these innocent children with explosive belts. As those children are unconscious of the reality and they are threatened and afraid of the brutality of those terrorist murderers, they succumb to their orders not knowing the results of those works. Here is the true face of Al-Qaeda which doesn’t hesitate to conduct any horrendous operation to fulfill its despicable objectives in Iraq. This despicable organization has become unable to infiltrate the security enclosures deployed throughout the country because the brave Iraqi Police Officers have unveiled its methods. Therefore, Al-Qaeda has adopted a new strategy to surprise the police men in order to resume their operations in Iraq. They have been targeting innocent Iraqis through kidnapping children and obliging them to fulfill their objectives. Indeed, terrorists engage those children in conducting despicable operations against civil and governmental targets.

We all know that terrorists have neither religion nor faith. Abusing children who are under the age of ten is a violation of all laws. We have seen the place where the terrorists were arrested by our security forces heroes. Thirteen children who had been kidnapped by terrorists from streets and schools were found in this place. They had been kidnapped to be trained, to have terrorism instilled in their minds, to wear explosive belts and perpetrate the terrorists’ plans. Children are the only thing left for terrorists to carry out their explosions. They used men, women, mad people and animals, and now they want to use children, as they are not inspected, and to arouse the media concerning this issue. Thank Allah, their plan was thwarted. They were arrested and these children were liberated.

We must activate the intelligence services. We must also sensitize all children at home or at school not to go with any stranger or approach him. Moreover, parents should pay attention to their children and be very careful when they go shopping, to prevent the children from being taken without them noticing, especially since many markets in Iraq are overcrowded.

Honestly, I see that this is a sorrowful issue, because the terrorist organization of Al-Qaeda exploits the innocent children, after kidnapping and assaulting them, to implant the spirit of terrorism, explosions, bombings, weapons and killing in them during the period the children spend with them. They enroll those children into training camps to train them in such things, and they instill the desire for killing and bloodshed in their minds. This bloody image will be engraved in the minds of those children, and in this way, the terrorists make sure that they will turn into criminals in the future, to carry on and defend the name of Al-Qaeda. In fact, this is very dangerous and it threatens the future of the whole world. This issue should get appropriate attention. The government, after capturing the terrorists, should also gather up the children that they save from the hands of the terrorists, and keep them away from the streets for a while. After that, there should be efforts to refute all the dark ideas that the terrorists have implanted in the minds of those children inside training camps, by giving them lectures on how criminal behavior was introduced to them, so that we can remove the black image that the terrorists have placed inside their heads. They should also be taken to places where they can watch their peers playing and enjoying their childhood. All these steps should be carried out by psychiatrists who are specialized in the psychological disorders of children. The social guides may also help in this respect, depending on their experience in the rehabilitation of children. Leaving those children on the streets without rehabilitation, without their gradual return to the schools and socializing with the rest of society, will affect their future and the future of the whole world. That is because, when they grow up, the psychological damages that they suffered in their hearts may make any one of them become a criminal in the future, or even think about establishing a terrorist organization, so as to be like those terrorists. There is no doubt that this will be a disaster in the true sense of the word. We have to provide the children with sufficient protection against terrorism and kidnapping by intensifying measures of protection near the schools and markets; every mother and father must pay attention and be vigilant when they go out shopping for clothes or other items with their children.

In order to further protect the families of the police members from terrorists’ direct targeting, the government must provide those families with weapons licenses, so that they can defend themselves against any terrorist attack. The Iraqi government must hold training sessions for those families, in order to explain to them the reality of the threats they receive and how they can avoid them. The government can also hold training sessions in security procedures for those families, in which they will learn how to be alert when they leave home, and how to check their cars lest they be booby-trapped, a method that terrorist favor in targeting those families. I think that the government must provide those families with buses destined to take their children to school, in order to prevent the despicable terrorists from kidnapping or killing them. By targeting their families, terrorists try to exercise pressure over the police members, blackmail them and force them to collaborate with terrorism. Terrorists try to force police members to give up their job so that they can move easily, undeterred.

Targeting children by training them to conduct terrorist operations reflects the appalling level of Al-Qaeda and its deviation from all customs and values. Nothing can justify using children in war under any circumstance. However, Al-Qaeda has rejected all these customs and values, recruited many children, and trained them to engage them in terrorist plans. Thanks to the brave operations conducted by the armed forces and the security forces, many terrorist networks were arrested. Those terrorist networks kidnap children and force them to train. The armed forces have succeeded in ridding them of terrorism and its evil ideology. However, the problem or the challenge facing the government and the concerned persons is how to fight those poisonous ideologies planted by terrorism in the minds of those children, and how to treat the negative repercussions of this experience on their psychology. I think that the solution lies in putting those children in specific places, in order to change the distorted image left by this experience in their minds. They must be put under the supervision of psychiatrists who can identify the defects in their psychology and try to treat them. They must be supervised by researchers specialized in psychology and human behavior, who will follow up with the treatment steps of those children. Researchers must put forth a specific curriculum for those children, commensurate with their ages, in order to help them get rid of the repercussions of the Al-Qaeda experience on their minds. Researchers must rehabilitate those children again, so that they will become positive social members who can serve society and help the construction process in the country. In order to protect children from the despicable Al-Qaeda, we must sensitize them to the threat of terrorism through educational programs which are appropriate to their ages and mindset. We must explain the ways used by terrorists to recruit children, in order to put an end to terrorism. Parents must follow up on their children and pay attention to any behavioral changes or suspicious tendencies, in order to prevent the problem from reoccurring.

Al-Qaeda has reached a degree of criminality that goes beyond one’s imagination. How can this despicable organization kidnap children from streets or schools and use them for low propaganda services? In fact, they force those kidnapped children to wear explosive belts and hold weapons. Terrorists shoot them and record them on video tapes. Those video sequences are then uploaded to suspected Al-Qaeda sites or sent to some news channels to be broadcast and to draw the people’s attention in a way that puts Al-Qaeda on the scene again. Al-Qaeda terrorists aim to regain their criminal aura that the brave Iraqi security forces had succeeded in breaking in recent years. By recording videos of children wearing explosive belts and holding weapons, terrorists try to convince people that they are so popular that even children participate in terrorist operations. In reality, they deceive themselves, as it is well known that those children have nothing to do with this story. In fact, they were kidnapped and forced to do so. Indeed, this despicable and low propaganda will make Iraqis more determined to eradicate all the evil forms and ways of terrorism as soon as possible.