Suicide bombing has been a tactics deployed by many terrorist organizations world wide and was mastered by LTTE, but now there is a change in the way it is done. Recent reports and details release by US army officials indicate that Pakistan based Taliban chief Baitullah Mehsud has moved a step ahead by using children as suicide bombers. In a video released by Pakistani Military it is quite evident that this is a reality as it shows children being trained to be suicide bombers. The video also shows children killing without hesitation. Some of these children are as young as 11 years. Baitullah Mehsud is actually selling these trained children to other Taliban outfits for as much as US $ 6000 to 12000.

The key shift in the Taliban strategy is due to the fact that a suicide bomber of this age can be easily be mixed into the local population and also are easy to bypass security cordons. Pakistan army is raging a war in Swat region and has been engaged in a fierce battle against the Taliban Militia. The fallout of the war has been that the Taliban have increased the number of suicide attacks in the major cities of Pakistan.

US has been trying to track Mehsud and have done several drone attacks including some at local madrassa’s which have been suspected of being training these suicide attacker.