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Have to agree. If these kids were hanging around or being raised by Al Qaeda, they're not "innocents". They're future suicide bombers.

The notion of children being "innocent" is largely a western one - in many other areas of the world, children are used as soldiers, couriers, smugglers, etc.

It's a quaint western notion that we better learn to dispense with if we're going to prevail against enemies that think nothing of using children as a resource to their own ends. Just because we don't like it doesn't mean it doesn't happen.