Kyrgyz police thwart attempt to recruit high school students for Syria war
OSH. Oct 31 (Interfax) - Kyrgyz law enforcement agencies thwarted an attempt to recruit three high school students to fight in Syria on the side of opposition forces, a spokesman for the police department for Osh and the Osh region told Interfax on Friday.
"In the city of Osh, police officers suppressed an attempt to recruit teenagers to fight in Syria on the side of the insurgents," he said.
"The students were recruited by a boy of the same age, who once lived in Osh. The school students said that he had contacted them through social networking websites, had sent them a photograph and a video with jihad calls," he said.
The police spokesman refused to disclose details of the investigation.
"The whereabouts of this former classmate who recruited them are being established. He may be in Turkey now," the spokesman said.
"Recruiters use new technologies. That is why it is very difficult to track how they manage to recruit an ever-growing number of people to join the hostilities in Syria," he said.