ISIS release shocking new video
of child soldiers from Kazakhstan being trained with AK47s
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New ISIS propaganda video shows
young children training with firearms
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The video claims the children are
first being taught to read and write Arabic
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Then, the youngsters, who are
from Kazakhstan, are given military training
A new ISIS propaganda video has emerged on social media showing
the indoctrination and training of dozens of child soldiers from Kazakhstan.
Entitled 'Race Towards Good', the
video was produced by the terror group's main media branch, Al Hayat Media
Center. The dialogue in the video interchanges between Kazakh and Arabic, with
three sets of subtitles including English.
The high quality film opens with
a slow motion sequence of two lines of armed Kazakh adult fighters jogging
along in the desert. In between the two lines, a lone fighter wearing a peaked
hat can be seen riding a white horse and carrying the black flag of ISIS.
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ISIS has released a shocking new
video featuring children from Kazakhstan at a terrorist training camp
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Their teacher claims he is giving
the children an education before they move onto military training
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The video immediately cuts to a
young boy, pictured, field-stripping and rebuilding an AK-47 assault
rifle
'Race
Towards Good': ISIS' chilling video of kids using guns
All of the fighters are wearing
matching grey camouflage uniforms, with the exception of the leader of the
group who is wearing a black tunic.
The video claims: 'Meet some of
our newest brothers from the land of Kazakhstan. They responded to the crusader
aggression with their hijrah and raced to prepare themselves and their
children, knowing very well that their final return is to Allah.'
One of the Kazakh fighters said:
'These brothers made hijrah recently and they're now in training camp. They are
preparing themselves to fight the kuffar (non-believers) and the mushrikin
(polytheists) who are spreading their kufr and shirk, and to fight the tawaghit
(sinners) in their various forms.'
The propaganda video shows a group of new adult ISIS recruits from
Kazakhstan training in an assault courses and receiving specialist sniper
training. Ranging in age, the adults are also shown in a classroom being taught
about the firing range for different sniper rifles - including weapons from the
United States.
The video states that 'soon they
will be ready to join the army of the Islamic State' before shockingly
revealing the role of Kazakh children in ISIS.
The video shows the youngsters
shouting God is Great in Arabic.
The video states: 'They begin
their days in search of knowledge in the schools of the Islamic State where
they are taught to hold firmly to this creed. This is coupled with a resolve
forged in the midst of worldwide crusader aggression, which together form the
ultimate base for raising tomorrow's mujahidin (fighters).'
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The video shows the children
learning how to read and write in a classroom before military training
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It also shows Kazakh men
receiving instruction in the use of sniper rifles and other infantry
tactics
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Unlike the recruits, the sniper
instructor is masked as he teaches the men how to deal with range
The young boys are shown catching
the bus to their religious school. One of the boys mimics pointing a rifle
towards the camera whilst others recite ISIS slogans.
The boys are then shown being
taught the ISIS radical interpretation of Sharia'h law in a classroom. A Kazakh
cleric is shown sitting in the classroom, where he tells the camera what it
means to be a Kazakh in the Islamic State. 'We spent our childhood far away
from this blessing. We were raised on the methodology of atheism, and Allah's
refuge is sought.'
He goes on to denounce the West,
claiming 'the kuffar poisoned our minds.' He insists 'Our children are happy.
They're living in the shade of the Qur'an and Sunnah.'
After showing the Kazakh boys
being taught to interpret the Qur'an and learn how to read and write Arabic,
the children are shown undertaking military training.
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The video cuts to the youngsters
undergoing the same military drills practiced by the men
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It is shows the young boys
developing their hand-to-hand combat skills in the classroom
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The propaganda video shows a
toddler brandishing a toy sub-machine gun while wearing military fatigues
The boys are shown sitting in a
group and are all wearing matching camouflage fatigues. One of the boys shows
off his ability to strip apart and reassemble a machine gun whilst the other
boys watch on with little interest.
The scene is narrated by an
interview with the children's Arabic teacher, who claims: 'They will move on to
do physical and military training until they get older and pound the thrones of
the tawaghit. With Allah's permission, they are the next generation. They are
the ones who will shake the earth and spread this precious deen (religion) to
all regions of the earth.'
The child soldiers are then shown
carrying out gun manoeuvres and tactical formations. It also briefly shows
shots of the boys working out in the gym and practicing martial arts.
One of the Kazakh children, who
gives his name as Abdullah, is asked in an interview what he is doing. The boy
replies: 'I'm training in a camp.' When quizzed about what he will do in the
future, Abdullah chillingly declares with a smile: 'I will be the one who
slaughters you, O kuffar (non-believer). I will be a mujahid, insha'allah (God
willing.)'
The boy is then shown as part of
the Kazakh boys brigade sitting as a group. A toddler, wearing a balaclava is
seen tottering nearby, carrying a mock machine gun and wearing military
fatigues. One of the older boys leads a prayer before proclaiming the group's
message: 'We're going to kill you, O kuffar. Insha'allah we'll slaughter you.'
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At the end of the chilling video,
one of the children is interviewed and explains that he is 'training in the
camp'
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He then explains how he will go
on to kill people claiming that he will become a fighter
The final scene shows the boys
jogging with their rifles along a road like the adult fighters at the beginning
of the video. The video's final statement reads: 'These youth are honoured with
being the future flag bearers of Islam.'
It is thought that at least 300
Kazakh nationals have travelled to Syria and joined Islamic State, according to
the National Security Committee of Kazakhstan. Nurtai Aykayev, chairman of the
committee, wrote in a report that 150 of the 300 Kazakh nationals, who had
joined Islamic State, were women.
Dr Andreas Krieg, Assistant
Professor at the Department of Defence Studies in Kings College London said
Kazakhstan was not a target area for ISIS.
He said: 'They are currently
concentrating on Iraq, Syria, Libya and Yemen. Although recently Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi
recently said he was looking to franchise the organisation in different Muslim
countries.
'Teaching the foreign fighters
Arabic is very important to them as they want to be able to win hearts and
minds of the people in their core target areas. The reason they are training
children, is the same reason the like of Hamas have been training children for
the past 20 years. It is to indoctrinate them and create the next generation of
fighter.'
Dr Krieg said the reason young
men from Kazakhstan were willing to join ISIS is similar to those prompting
British people to travel to Syria and Iraq.
'Kazakhstan is a reasonably
stable country. These men, like those in Britain and other western countries
are disenfranchised by the society they live in. They are very susceptible to
the ISIS narrative.'
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Iraqi Shiite militia have joined
with regular Iraqi forces around Tikrit, northern Iraq to fight against
ISIS
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The combined forces have had
several successes against ISIS forces who had taken over the area
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The major counter attack is
believed to have killed 'tens of terrorists' in reclaiming a northern enclave
Meanwhile, ISIS has murdered 25
members of a Sunni Muslim tribe in the Anbar province in Iraq.
The bodies were discovered by
members of the Iraqi army on the eastern edge of the Iraqi provincial capital
Ramadi. Local officials believe the men were murdered because they opposed the
ISIS incursion into their territory.
Hathal Al-Fahdawi, a member of
the Anbar Provincial Council, said the bodies of the men, who are from the Albu
Fahd tribe, were discovered after the Iraqi army launched a counter-offensive
against ISIS.
He said: 'While they were combing
the territories they are liberating, security forces found 25 corpses in the
Shujariya area
Albu Fahd tribal leader Sheikh
Rafie al-Fahdawi said at least 25 bodies had been found and said he expected
the total to be significantly higher. He said the bodies were found scattered
around with no signs of weapons next to them, suggesting they were not killed
during fighting.
Last month ISIS killed hundreds
of members of the Albu Nimr tribe in Anbar in an attempt to break local
resistance to their advances in the Sunni Muslim province they have largely
controlled for nearly a year.
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ISIS has also been attacked in
the Anbar province where Iraqi troops have been supported by US air power
ISIS, which has seized control of
large parts of Syria and Iraq, continues to gain territory in Anbar despite
three months of U.S.-led air strikes launched against the group.
On Friday it launched coordinated
attacks in central and outlying areas of Ramadi in an attempt to take full
control over a city which is already mostly in its hands.
The road from Ramadi to the
military airbase of Habbaniya, about 15 miles to the east, remained under ISIS
control on Saturday, Hathal Fahdawi said, preventing the army from reinforcing
security forces in the city.
He said tribal fighters backed by
army tanks were trying to secure the road to allow forces through from
Habbaniya.
The ISIS lightning offensive
through northern Iraq in June plunged the country into its gravest security
crisis since the U.S.-led overthrow of Saddam Hussein in 2003, and raised
concerns that its radical ideology will spread.
In northern Iraq, a farmer near
the city of Mosul discovered around 60 bodies believed to be those of prisoners
killed by Islamic State fighters when they overran the city's Badush prison on
June 10, witnesses said on Saturday.
The bodies were found after heavy
rain disturbed their mass grave. The United Nations said up to 670 prisoners
from Badush were killed by Islamic state five months ago.
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