These pictures are shocking, but the story behind them is even worse. Terror investigator Neil Doyle uncovered the images after authorities carried out a raid on a school in Mogadishu. These children were kidnapped by Al Qaeda in Somalia and were being brainwashed so that they could be used in future attacks on the West. The children – some as young as seven – were chained up to beds while they were taught an extreme version of Islam.

According to a teacher at the school, the children were in chains because they were “missing classes”. Most of the children’s parents were unaware they were actually there. The raid was one of a number of operations sanctioned by the government in recent months and led to the arrest of 200 people.

Doyle is the author of Terror Base UK and Terror Tracker.

The images suggest Al Shabaab has turned to slavery in order to produce a generation of child soldiers and suicide bombers. They are following in the footsteps of other militants who target children, unfortunately, like the Afghan Taliban who regularly poison students at girls’ schools and shoot teachers.”

[Source: Daily Mail]