Al Qaeda group plans to release animated cartoon to recruit children - GlobalPost
This sounds laughable until you look at the more recent suicide bombers in Pakistan, many of them are children who have first been enticed and then subsequently coerced into bombings.
An al Qaeda affiliate in Yemen is planning to release an animated film cartoon aimed at recruiting young people to the militant network.
Terrorists connected to al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, the Yemen-based affiliate, said they were creating the cartoon to inspire children to join the jihad, a posting on an extremist website said, according to the Daily News.
The animated film, titled “Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula,” shows young boys dressed in battle fatigues and carrying out raids, killings and terror plots, according to the Associated Press.
The British counter-extremism think tank Quilliam said news of the movie was announced on a password-protected Arabic-language online discussion forum on Sunday by a person who called himself Abu al-Laith al-Yemen, according to Reuters.