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In the two reports below, several captured would-be suicide bombers who recently failed to carry out attacks in Afghanistan and were consequently captured revealed how they are inspired by extremist teachings in Pakistani madrassas, while the Afghan intelligence service National Directorate of Security (NDS) says that the Taliban are isolating "lazy and low-profile students" in Pakistani madrassas to send them on suicide missions.
Afghanistan's National Directorate of Security: Taliban Are Isolating Low-Profile Students In Pakistan Madrassas And Are Training Them For Suicide Attacks
Lutfullah Mashal, a spokesman for Afghanistan's National Directorate of Security (NDS), says that the Taliban are isolating lazy and low-profile students in Pakistani madrassas in order to to give them a mistaken picture about Afghanistan and to work cultivate them psychologically to carry out suicide attacks.
Following are excerpts from a report published on the website of Afghan TOLONews TV:
"Suicide attacks, unknown in Afghanistan until 2004, have become particularly worrying to the country as newly minted government forces take control of security ahead of the withdrawal of most foreign combat troops in 2014.
"'Most Muslim families send their children for Islamic education to Pakistani madrassas; and the Taliban, especially the Al-Qaeda-related Taliban, choose and select some dumb students, lazy students, and students from poor family backgrounds to be recruited as suicide attackers. They isolate them from the rest of the students, they train them, and in most cases they hypnotize them. They work with them psychologically and they give them a wrong picture of Afghanistan,' [NDS spokesman Lutfullah] Mashal said.
"Suicide bombings are the most lethal type of weapon to be used against civilian and military forces, after IEDs [improvised explosive devices].
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