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TEDTalks: Sharmeen Obaid Chinoy: Inside a School for Suicide Bombers

By grrlscientist on May 28, 2010.

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Filmmaker Sharmeen Obaid Chinoy takes on a terrifying question: How does the Taliban convince children to become suicide bombers? Propaganda footage from a training camp is intercut with interviews of young camp graduates. A shocking vision.

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