Young Iraq Boy gets Captured in Kuwait

[shub1989]

Like many young boys, Khidir loves playing with toy cars and wants to be a policeman like his father when he grows up. But it was his father's very job that caused the tiny child to suffer the unimaginable.

"They beat me with a shovel, they pulled my teeth out with pliers, they would go like this and pull it," said Khidir, now 8, demonstrating with his hands. "And they would make me work on the farm gathering carrots."

The father, a police officer, was sleeping at the police station in Falluja when his son was kidnapped. It was too dangerous to go home regularly. Although Falluja was no longer controlled by insurgents, assassinations against police were common.

Last December, nearly two years later, police in Taji, about 45 (70 kilometers) away, received a tip that terrorists were holding kidnapped children.
"We thought that it was just a tip to ambush us, but we considered the mission as a sacrifice," said Iraqi police Capt. Khalib Ali. "Either we find the children and free them or face the danger and take the risk.
The tip led the Iraqi police to a rundown farm and a series of mud huts. Khidir's tiny body was twisted abnormally. And in another hut, they found another child. Two children are still believed to be with the kidnappers.
Al Qaeda in Iraq has historically kidnapped children for money, to pressure officials, and even to use in terrorist attacks.

[treehopr]

That's so horrible. I don't know how anyone could hurt a child within any context.

[jmcgowan]

That's terrorism. They don't care about little kids, they don't care about freedom. They care about having the world work the way they want it to, through any means. "We want you out of our country, so we're going to kill a bunch of civilians", "We don't like your foreign policy, so we're going to blow up one of your embassies" And then to make sure that they don't get caught, they'll hide among the very civilians that they're planning on blowing up or shooting tomorrow.

[bazookajoe]

**** like this is perfectly normal for those people over there. That is why when another country gives them a mulligan (albeit under the notion of nuclear weapons) They basically fight it. Iraq- Please find a dictionary and see: Germany, Japan, ...

[ichwar]

That's so horrible. I don't know how anyone could hurt a child within any context.

It's called sin. Sad, isn't it? Unfortunately, beyond doing our best to keep America or whatever country we live in from becoming a third world country like that, there really isn't much we can do about these happenings.

[garrettroyce]

Here's the source of the article: http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/meast/...boy/index.html

People need to stop copying articles and pasting them here without any of their own input. What's the purpose?

[talkingnerds]

That **** is just disgusting. Someone needs to stop this for once and for all.

[bradym]

Yes. I'm so glad someone posted this. Did you see how quickly the story disappeared from the major news sites like CNN, ABC, NBC? Why do some news stories stay on the front pages for days, and others disappear quickly? It's an editorial comment. Thank you for posting this. This is the enemy we've been fighting since long before 9-11-01. I think it was Golda Meir (sp?) who said we will have peace when they love their children more than they hate their enemies.