Pakistani police kills Taliban recruiters recruiting children.

news.yahoo.com...

TANK, Pakistan (Reuters) - Pakistani police clashed with suspected Taliban militants trying to recruit schoolchildren in a northwestern town on Monday and a policeman and two militants were killed, police said.

After the gun battle in Tank town in North West Frontier Province (NWFP), where security analysts say the influence of Islamist militants is growing, the militants threw at least three hand grenades in different parts of the town, injuring around a dozen people.

The fighting began after a group of Taliban fighters visited a school and urged the children to give up their studies and join jihad, or holy war.

"They assembled the students in the school ground and told them jihad is more important than education," said Fareed Khan, principal of the privately-run Oxford Public School.

Police confronted the Taliban as they left the school and a gunfight broke out.

Wow...and I thought we had recruiting problems here, but we got Taliban fighters that needs more manpower so they decided to go to schools full kids instead of getting fighters from Pakistan or other countries that are at adult age.

Title mishap, should be police, not soldiers.


[edit on 26-3-2007 by deltaboy]