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ISIS ‘supporting’ child waves gun and claims he wants to become a suicide bomber in fanatics’ latest sick propaganda video
Child soldier encouraged as he reads from the blood-curdling script
A TERRIFYING video of a child soldier brandishing a gun and threatening to do "martyrdom operations" has been released by ISIS.
The propaganda video shows the young child waving the gun around, yelling out the messages for ISIS.
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Reading from a script at his feet, the young child shouts: "We are the cubs of the Caliphate, we want to go to Iraq to do martyrdom operations."
The little boy is wearing traditional robes with his curly hair spilling out of the head dress.
In the background, a rifle can clearly be seen propped up against the white wall.
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At one stage he is urged to keep going by the person behind the camera.
The person helping to make the movie encourages the young child, saying "good".
The video is not the first time that the terror group has used children to share its sickening message.
Earlier this year, new footage emerged of young ISIS soldiers executing two Taliban captives.
The youngsters can be seen holding pistols to the back of the captive's heads before pulling the trigger and watching them slump to the ground.
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The past few months have seen a renewed push for notoriety by the group's propaganda agencies after it suffered a series of crushing battlefield defeats.
An ISIS truck bomb was last month detonated in a busy marketplace in Baghdad, Iraq, killing at least 125 people.
The group claimed it was targeting local Shiite Muslims - a branch of Islam it claims is incompatible with its own Sunni teachings.
And on Friday night, ISIS-linked jihadis in Dhaka, Bangladesh, stormed a restaurant and murdered 20 foreigners.
Witnesses described how the attackers knifed to death anyone who could not recite verses of the Koran.
They were only stopped when Bangladeshi police raided the premises and killed six of them in a gun battle.
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