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Child Soldiers Who Escaped Islamic State Tell of Lessons in Beheading

(Wall Street Journal) Maria Abi-Habib - Jomah, a 17-year-old Syrian who joined Islamic State last year, sat in a circle of trainees for a lesson in beheading, a course taught to boys as young as 8. Teachers brought in three frightened Syrian soldiers, who were jeered and forced to their knees. A teacher asked for volunteers and said, "Those who behead the infidels will receive gifts from God," recalled Jomah. Afterward, the teachers ordered the students to pass around the severed heads. The enrollment of hundreds of boys in such militant training camps could trouble the Middle East for years to come.

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