Suicide bomber child

One morning at an Afghanistan checkpoint, a child's crying was heard.  There was a girl a little way into the desert crying - and she was wearing a suicide vest.

She had been sent by her brother to the checkpoint to detonate the vest.  She is nine years old.  Read her story here as reported by BBC News.

She says that she was not allowed to go to school and that her brother told her, "You're here in this world and you will die. You are not here to learn or to do other things or to expect that your word will carry any weight. You are here just to die and do your duty."