ISIS has released a shocking new video featuring children from Kazakhstan at a terrorist training campA 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.
Their teacher claims he is giving the children an education before they move onto military training
The video immediately cuts to a young boy, pictured, field-stripping and rebuilding an AK-47 assault rifle
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).'
The video shows the children learning how to read and write in a classroom before military training
It also shows Kazakh men receiving instruction in the use of sniper rifles and other infantry tactics
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.
The video cuts to the youngsters undergoing the same military drills practiced by the men
It is shows the young boys developing their hand-to-hand combat skills in the classroom
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.'
At the end of the chilling video, one of the children is interviewed and explains that he is 'training in the camp'
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.'
Iraqi Shiite militia have joined with regular Iraqi forces around Tikrit, northern Iraq to fight against ISIS
The combined forces have had several successes against ISIS forces who had taken over the area
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.
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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