Cute kids with guns

The Sun (UK) has an expose of how Al Qaeda affiliates poses babies and small children with real weapons to make recruitment videos:

A TINY girl aged barely two sucks her fingers in childish innocence - while grasping an AK-47 assault rifle almost as big as her.

The tot, in full Muslim dress, was made to pose with the weapon dubbed the "Widowmaker" as part of a sickening propaganda stunt staged by extremists of the Islamic Jihad Union, linked to al-Qaeda.

The group - who target British and US troops from lairs on the Afghan border with Pakistan - also pictured the girl and five other toddlers with heavy weapons in front of a black Islamic flag.

The Sun had a similar expose four years ago, that time from Iraq.

Even so, you have to give credit to Palestinian Arabs for being the trendsetters in this arena. Even though it is commonplace nowadays to see pictures such as this one of a Palestinian Arab kid hanging out with a gun and his mentors,

they have been inculcating their kids with a love of violence for decades. Just check out this LIFE magazine cover from June, 1970: