Global Youth Issues - A Jihadist's Story

By David Nuttle

Today, many developing nations experience slow economic development that creates a situation where many youths have few if any employment options or any other means meaningful engagement. This results in a large pool of angry & disillusioned youth available for recruitment by terrorists, narco-terrorists, insurgents, or criminal elements. At times, some of these youth are forming their own gangs to engage in assorted criminal activities; e. g. MS-13 Gang.

Among extremely poor populations, worldwide, when it comes to survival of a family, the oldest child (usually a daughter), is sold to obtain funds to buy the foods needed to sustain remaining family members. I observed this practice while working in SE Asia, and I witnessed criminal elements buy youth for an array of human trafficking operations with youth often being sold as slaves or sex slaves. The human condition is horrific in these situations.

As I reported in my “Jihadist's Story,” the Islamic Wahhabi sect provided new orphanages in Africa, to offer care for the many HIV orphans. The objective was to indoctrinate and train these youth to be future Islamic jihadists acting to eliminate all non-Wahhabi from our planet. Existing Islamic jihadist groups are forcing other youth to become jihadists or work to support the jihadist cause. Such jihadist force includes kidnapping young women to be their sex slaves in the jihadist camps.

Youth have traditionally provided the manpower needed by armed forces. The youth given early responsibilities w/ experiences giving them physical as well as mental toughness provide soldiers that best survive armed combat. Our American youth are now mostly lacking such conditioning and are prone to be fixed to electronic devices and seek “instant gratification.”

Many current U. S. military commanders have some doubt about our victories in WWll if the U. S. would have had to depend on such youth. The psychological resilience of youth often seems to depend on the types of children's stories they hear as youth. An example is our youth who heard tales of “Alice in Wonderland,” compared to Vietnamese youth who only heard the many stories of “blood and guts” adventures.

To have any real hope for achieving global peace, conditions for all our poor, abused, and disadvantaged youth must greatly improve!

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GACCI: A JIHADIST'S STORY

Gacci came to us when he contacted NPI's staff in Kenya, asking for help in escaping the jihadist orphanage he lived in, in the belief he was being abused by the Wahhabi. An NPI staff member, working in a remote part of Kenya free of Wahhabi, found a local tribal family to support Gacci, provide him with work, and keep him hidden from Islamic jihadists should they seek to find him. This is not an usual story for kids forced into killing around the world, whether it be for gang affiliation, religious beliefs, or terrorist groups wanting to mold the next generation into committing crimes against humanity.

"At age four, I (Gacci) lost both my parents to the HIV epidemic in Kenya. Most of the adults in my Masai tribal village were lost to this epidemic and had no surviving adult relatives to care for the remaining children. My two siblings were under age 12 with no means to provide for my care. A recruiter from a newly established Wahhabi orphanage came to my village and offered to care for me and other village orphans. The recruiter, Muhammad, seemed like a kind man who cared for the orphans of his village, so I accepted the offer to move to this Wahhabi Orphanage nearby.

I soon found life at this orphanage was harsh. Meals offered limited poor quality foods, sleeping was on a mat on the floor in a crowded dorm with other orphans. Schooling was every day with all instruction being the memorization and reciting of the entire Quran and Sharia Law. We would all sit on the floor with legs crossed and were required to rock back-and-forth during class. We had a few short breaks, a brief lunch, and two hours of paramilitary training after. At days end we had lectures on why we needed to train to become jihadists for the Sunni Islamist Wahhabi cause of eliminating all non-Wahhabi from earth to facilitate the return to earth of our 12th Imam. This Imam, Muhammad al-Mahdi, was to rule over aIl nations and peoples under the Flag-of-Islam with governance by Sharia Law.

Jihadists operating out of this orphanage would periodically capture a few other tribal villagers as prisoners, and we would be required to participate in their horrific decapitation. Several times we were all required to lie in an open grave site for an extended period, and recite why we wanted to become jihadists. We had to say how we would enjoy all the great rewards of lslamic Paradise after we offered our lives to help in achieving Wahhabi's goal of elimination from the earth of all non- Wahhabi. As noted above, this was so the 12th Imam could return to earth to rule over all. As we became teenagers, we would participate in armed raids where all would engage in the torture, rape, decapitations and assorted killings of those targeted. This was my life with the Wahhabi."