Pashtun boys YouTube video exalts suicide bombers

The 84-second video shows a boy dressed in black embracing other boys,said Afghans who had seen it. When he finishes saying farewell,he walks toward a another boy in a white garment,who appears to represent an official. The boy in white holds up his hand as if to say stop,but the suicide bomber keeps going. Then the bomber kicks up a cloud of dust,to represent the explosion,and three other boys,playing members of the security forces,fall down.

The music in the background is a Taliban song: My beloved is going to fight,so he has long hair/ He carries his machine gun on his shoulder,which looks so fine on him./ He is going to battle,going to fight.

A Taliban spokesman Zabiullah Mujahid expressed regrets that such things had become reality for children,but made it clear that the Taliban approved. We are saddened that children are playing this game,but they should do it because this is a war that was imposed upon us.