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Afghanistan
12-Year-Old Escapes Taliban Suicide Plan
2012-09-27
A 12-year-old Afghan boy whose family was killed in a NATO
...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A cautionary tale of cost-benefit analysis....
Arclight airstrike beat feet from Taliban bully boyz attempting to use him as a jacket wallah in southern Helmand
...an Afghan province populated mostly by Pashtuns, adjacent to Injun country in Pak Balochistan...
province, local officials said.

The boy, Neyaz Mohammad, was a resident in the Kajaki district of southern Helmand province who lost his family in a NATO Arclight airstrike, provincial police front man Farid Ahmad Farhang told TOLOnews.

Farhang said that Neyaz was taken around three months ago by bully boyz in the Nawa district of the province and given money to convince him to wear a boom jacket to attack security forces.

"The first time [he was kidnapped], a resident of Nawa freed the boy from Taliban, but again they captured him," Farhang added.

The boy escaped on Tuesday and went to the police. He is currently under their care, officials said.

Isaf also confirmed the report in their operational update Wednesday and said that the boy being supported by Afghan police.

But Taliban front man Qari Yousuf rejected the claim in an interview with TOLOnews, saying it was "government propaganda".

"I have spoken with Taliban [leaders], it's not true. The government wants to defame the Taliban. We condemn this," Qari Yousuf said.

He added that the Taliban are not hiring "under-age" bombers.
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