Boy, 14, forced to become suicide bomber

Afghan President Hamid Karzai today called child suicide bombers a “fearful and terrifying truth” after freeing a 14-year-old Pakistani boy arrested in eastern Afghanistan the night before he planned to kill a provincial governor.

Rafiqullah, who goes by one name, told reporters that while attending a madrassa, or religious school, in Pakistan he and two other boys were separated from the rest of the students and trained to drive a car and made to watch videos of suicide bombers carrying out attacks.