Al-Qaeda on the Run... to the Grammar Schools

Bridget Johnson

January 03, 2014 6:29 AM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kncRJhAm2cI

This video posted yesterday on YouTube shows the Cubs of Zarqawi — a youth camp run by ISIS, the offshoot of al-Qaeda in Iraq.

Al-Qaeda has long been known to be expanding its recruitment of kids, particularly across central Asia and in places where children are more vulnerable such as Iraq and Syria. The kids are trained for suicide bombings, conducting executions, higher roles in the terror group, and as recruiters for bringing in more kids. There’s no evidence that this recruitment has abated at all, even when President Obama has claimed over the past year that al-Qaeda is decimated.

Be scared, very scared when you see Alqaeda running kids camps under the title “The cubs of Zarqawi” http://t.co/HkvJEEV7FC #Syria #ISIS

— Iyad El-Baghdadi (@iyad_elbaghdadi) January 3, 2014

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Bridget Johnson is a veteran journalist whose news articles and analyses have run in dozens of news outlets across the globe. Bridget first came to Washington to be online editor at The Hill, where she wrote The World from The Hill column on foreign policy. Previously she was an opinion writer and editorial board member at the Rocky Mountain News and nation/world news columnist at the Los Angeles Daily News.

Bridget is a Senior Fellow specializing in terrorism analysis at the Haym Salomon Center. She is a Senior Risk Analyst for Gate 15, a homeland security risk management firm in the Beltway. She is an NPR contributor and has contributed to USA Today, The Wall Street Journal, National Review Online, Politico, New York Daily News, The Jerusalem Post, The Hill, New York Observer, Washington Times, RealClearWorld and more, and has myriad television and radio credits including Al-Jazeera and SiriusXM. Bridget is Washington Editor for PJ Media.