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By Daily Mail Reporter

Baby-faced children aim AK-47 rifles as they train for war on British troops. They are being taught about combat even if they can barely hold the lethal weapons.

Shocking video shows toddlers as young as five being trained as 'martyrs' at a secret al-Qaeda camp. They are learning how to blow up buildings and mount roadside bomb attacks.

British commanders in Afghanistan say Taliban fighters are increasingly using children as suicide bombers and as human shields during battles.

Deadly game: Young boys videoed at a secret camp training to kill British forces

Teaching terror: A chilling picture of a youngster learning how to fire an AK-47 rifle

Footage shows children cheering as a toy police car is blown to pieces by a bomb after a youngster presses a button on a mobile phone.

The anxious youngsters - some dressed in camouflage uniform - are made to stand in line before being handed the rifles.

Militants are training hundreds of them to become killers in the camp based in North Waziristan before being sent across the border to face western troops.

The children come from families within the Turkic ethnic group of Uyghur people - Chinese Muslims who have fled and settled in Pakistan Afghanistan and Kazakhstan.

Terrorism expert Neil Doyle told the Sunday Mirror that the video which appears on an underground website, was released as part of a Jihad recruitment drive.

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