a Syrian boy escaped from Isis - by volunteering as a
suicide bomber and then handing himself in at the
mosque he was meant to blow up.
Usaid Barho had a bomb vest strapped to his body
before travelling to a Shi'ite mosque in Baghdad, Iraq
where he was supposed to detonate the explosive
device.
But rather than killing himself and countless others,
he took the brave decision to defy his orders by
unzipping his jacket and handing himself in to guards
standing nearby.He had reportedly walked up to the
gates of the mosque in the Bayaa district of Baghdad
before telling guards he did not want to blow himself
up. According to NYTimes , he said
“They seduced us to join the caliphate,“I believed
in Islam.They planted the idea in me that Shiites
are infidels and we had to kill them,” .If he did
not fight, he was told, Shiites would come and
rape his mother
The newspaper describes how he was taken to a
training camp before being given a choice of becoming
a fighter or a suicide bomber. He chose the latter
hoping he could immediately surrender.
The teenager reportedly said:
'I raised my hand to be a suicide bomber.If I
were a fighter and tried to surrender to security
forces they might kill me, with my gun in my
hand.'
Usaid was reportedly transferred from one Isis
operative to another as he made his journey towards
the mosque before he was finally given his target and
informed of his target.
It is believed that the teenager is currently being held
at an Iraqi intelligence site.
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