Afghan president says Taliban used child bomber
President Hamid Karzai is accusing the Taliban of using a 12-year-old as a suicide bomber and sending him to carry out an attack on Sunday that killed a local council member and three other civilians in eastern Afghanistan.
Karzai says the bombing targeted civilians and that the use of children and youths in terrorist attacks is inhumane and un-Islamic. The attack took place in Paktika province, 160 miles (260 kilometers) south of the capital. It comes one day after the Taliban announced the beginning of its spring offensive. (AP)
