On November 1, 2019, Al-Arabiya Network (Saudi Arabia) aired a report about orphaned children of ISIS fighters. The report showed a video of an elderly ISIS man explaining to young boys that they must learn how to drive in case they want to become “martyrdom-seekers” and blow themselves up among the Islamic State’s infidel enemies (see MEMRI TV Clip No. 6194, “80-Year-Old ISIS Activist Mentors Young Orphaned Sons of Foreign Fighters, Calls for Attacks in the U.S., Russia, China”). The reporter said that this is how ISIS used to indoctrinate children and that there are many such children in the refugee camps that take in the families of ISIS members. He said that many of the children constitute security, humanitarian, and legal problems because some of them are trained fighters who were raised on ISIS ideology, because they are victims of their upbringing, and because as children, they cannot be punished for any crimes they may have committed and must instead be rehabilitated and re-educated. In an interview, a nine-year-old boy introduced as Adam Al-Dagestani told the reporter that he had been taught how to shoot a Kalashnikov rifle, that his step-father was a fighter who was killed in Al-Raqqa, and that his mother was killed in Al-Baghouz.
