Shakirullah is fourteen and facing twenty years in prison for his involvement in a failed suicide attack. He was meant to die along with many victims but disturbingly thought he wouldn't be killed. He spent the months leading up to the attack at a Madrassah in Southern Pakistan where he was beaten into believing that his duty was to kill infidels. The mullahs were deaf to his pleas not to go: 'I didn't agree, they forced me to.' According to NATO observers, Shakirullah is a typical recruit for suicide bombings. The Taliban target impressionable and ill-educated boys and lie to them about their mission: 'they are force-fed a lot of rubbish in the Madrassahs.' Asked about whether he would still go now, Shakirullah replies that he'd rather stay at home with his family: 'I know now I would die-I don't want to die(...). Why should anyone else die?' Kabul's security will soon be handed over to Afghan forces. They're reputedly better at spotting strangers and suspicious behaviour but being lightly armed they are regularly targeted by suicide bombers. Attacks are on the increase as more boys like Shakirullah provide fodder for the Taliban's war machine.