Somali kids being used as spies by Somalia

[Lancer]

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/af ... story.html

They were marched through neighborhoods where al-Shabab insurgents were hiding and told to point out their former comrades. The faces of intelligence agents were covered, but the boys — some as young as 10 — were rarely concealed, according to the children. Several of them were killed. One tried to hang himself while in custody.

“They took me sometimes in a car and sometimes on foot and said, ‘Tell us who is al-Shabab,’­ ” recalled one 15-year-old who said he was held by the intelligence agency. “It’s scary because you know everyone can see you working with them.”

The teenager was one of eight boys interviewed by The Washington Post who described being forced to work as informants after leaving al-Shabab. The boys each spoke alone, through an interpreter, but their accounts were nearly identical. They said they spent years in the custody of intelligence agents and were dragged along on missions, sometimes several times a week. Occasionally, they were told to wear NISA uniforms. They were threatened with violence if they didn’t cooperate, several boys said. Their parents didn’t know where they were.

[theyuusuf143]

Its illegal but normal when you look at the situation in Mogadishu. Only Alshabaab kid can lead you to an other Alshabaab kids. The AS amniyat use same tactics by abducting NISA members or their families, they torture until they are getting useful information. Then they execute them.

[Machiavelli2]

I agree with Yuusuf. The title is misleading because according to our culture and religion, 15 year olds are considered age of legal maturity. Secondly, these young men were former Alshabab soldiers who may have some knowledge of the inner-workings and dangerous members of that group. Who's to say, they aren't still working for them? To illicit information that could save thousands of lives from suicide bombings is a small price to pay for making them inconvenient. If there were weekly/monthly suicide bombings in major global capitals, surgeons would have removed foetuses from their mother's wombs if they had information leading to the arrest of those causing the violence. The death of the foetus would have been blamed on the terrorists. That's the difference between Nisa and their western counterparts. Dhuxurka sheekadeey waa, human rights are suspended for some while they are targeting civilians in their terrorist attacks.

[Strategic]

best news of the month.

[Prlnce]

I agree with Yuusuf. The title is misleading because according to our culture and religion, 15 year olds are considered age of legal maturity. Secondly, these young men were former Alshabab soldiers who may have some knowledge of the inner-workings and dangerous members of that group. Who's to say, they aren't still working for them? To illicit information that could save thousands of lives from suicide bombings is a small price to pay for making them inconvenient. If there were weekly/monthly suicide bombings in major global capitals, surgeons would have removed foetuses from their mother's wombs if they had information leading to the arrest of those causing the violence. The death of the foetus would have been blamed on the terrorists. That's the difference between Nisa and their western counterparts. Dhuxurka sheekadeey waa, human rights are suspended for some while they are targeting civilians in their terrorist attacks.

I agree the title is misleading after reading the story. It's also true that in our culture and religion at the age of 15 you are considered an adult. Having said that would you let your daughter or son join al shabab if they decided to at 15, age of legal maturity?

The story also says that some of the kids sorry "adults" have been killed for working with NISA. You know the old chinese proverb snitches get stitches. There is also a big difference between making them inconvenient and being dead. Taking your shoes off at the airport that is inconvenient. Security services protect informants and those they work with in the West something their counterparts in Somalia need to work on. Security services and the state should have value for life. Something the terrorist they are fighting for obviously don't.

[gegiroor]

If it is true NISA is using these boys for intelligence gatherings, they should 1) first protect them and conceal their faces; (2) they should treat them better, and if they are not going to permanently employed, at least teach them skills they can make good use in the rest of the country.

p.s. Every method should be used to defeat Al-Shabaab provided the age of limit is 15 and up.

[Adali]

There is no morals in this tug of war, they will use whatever is in their means. While both groups promise a future that is a utopia, both groups are actually sucking the life out of the population.

I just hope this sick depravity isn't exported to peaceful regions.

[TheblueNwhite]

Use them and toss them.

[AbkoowDhiblaawe]

Use them and toss them.

Niccas If my kid was a shabab i'd kill him/her on spot. No naxaris for Al shabab.

[AGENT447]

Waar waxas iga daayoo, are they recruiting? I have always been into clandestine shit

[Gabre]

Zoomalia is a human rights-free zone. These niggas really in the field; if you get caught as Al-Shabaab you get used and disposed of with a bullet.