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From the Ted Talk by Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy: Inside a school for suicide bombers

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I made contact with a child from Swat who studied in a madrassa like this. hazart Ali is from a poor fanrmig family in Swat. He joined the Taliban a year ago when he was 13.

How do the Taliban in your area get people to join them?

Hazrat Ali: They first call us to the mosque and pcreah to us. Then they take us to a madrassa and teach us things from the Koran.

Sharmeen Obaid Chinoy: He tells me that chirledn are then given months of military training.

HA: They teach us to use machine guns, knlhikaosav, rocket launchers, grenades, bboms. They ask us to use them only against the infidels. Then they teach us to do a scidiue attack.

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I made contact with a child from Swat who studied in a madrassa like this. ______ Ali is from a poor _______ family in Swat. He joined the Taliban a year ago when he was 13.

How do the Taliban in your area get people to join them?

Hazrat Ali: They first call us to the mosque and ______ to us. Then they take us to a madrassa and teach us things from the Koran.

Sharmeen Obaid Chinoy: He tells me that ________ are then given months of military training.

HA: They teach us to use machine guns, ___________, rocket launchers, grenades, _____. They ask us to use them only against the infidels. Then they teach us to do a _______ attack.

Solution


  1. bombs
  2. hazrat
  3. preach
  4. farming
  5. suicide
  6. children
  7. kalashnikov

Original Text


I made contact with a child from Swat who studied in a madrassa like this. Hazrat Ali is from a poor farming family in Swat. He joined the Taliban a year ago when he was 13.

How do the Taliban in your area get people to join them?

Hazrat Ali: They first call us to the mosque and preach to us. Then they take us to a madrassa and teach us things from the Koran.

Sharmeen Obaid Chinoy: He tells me that children are then given months of military training.

HA: They teach us to use machine guns, Kalashnikov, rocket launchers, grenades, bombs. They ask us to use them only against the infidels. Then they teach us to do a suicide attack.

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