Was told to blow myself up': ISIS teen suicide bomber reveals chilling torment

Kirkuk: An ISIS child suicide bomber who was stripped off his explosive vest and detained by Iraqi officials, moments before it was detonated, has spoken up for the first time -- 3 months after the incident.

Identified as Mohammed Ahmed Ismail, the 15-year-old boy was arrested in August. It was only recently that he revealed some chilling details about the training he received by the terror group ISIS to carry out the suicide mission.

When he was caught by Iraqi officials, Ismail was wearing a Barcelona football shirt with Lionel Messi's name written on it. He was also carrying a suicide belt on his waist when he was stopped from entering a football stadium by security forces.

Ismail revealed that he was among many children who were a part of Islamic State's 'Cubs of Caliphate' group. This group of young children and teenagers are often asked to undergo intensive training for suicide bombing and other violent missions.

In his testimony, Ismail told police that he his cousin Ala, were a part of this group. Ala, along with one more, set of their devices in Kirkuk, in northern Iraq, the same day Ismail was send to execute his mission. However, intelligence officials grew suspicious of Ismail confronted him and tore of the explosive belt tied around his waist.

Ismail told The Times, ‘I was hesitating. Dureed kept urging "just walk into the middle of them and blow yourself up", but there was something inside me that was resisting. I couldn't do it.’ Dureed was an older teenager from the group who encouraged him to carry out the stadium attack. He said, he didn’t volunteer for this mission but accepted it. After he was stopped by the security to carry out his mission, Ismail said to The Times, 'I felt a bit relieved, but also confused. I didn't know what to do any more.'

The arrest of Ismail was an hour after a suicide bomber targeted the Shiite mosque, and 24 hours earlier another teenage bomber had killed 51 guests at a Kurdish wedding in the Turkish city of Gaziantep.

Earlier, when he was arrested he told the authorities that he 'had been kidnapped by masked men who put the explosives on him and sent him to the area'. But the truth has finally turned out. Ismail ’s father, who was a lorry driver, joined ISIS earlier this year, sends his son to train under ISIS to Mosul. The boy was later rechristened as Abu Musad and was subjected to months of rigorous brainwashing about the jihadist cause. He was smuggled into Kirkuk in a lorry loaded with sand the day before the planned attack.

Colonel Azer Ismail Juamarm, the custody in charge, told the The Times, 'I am absolutely sure he would go back to Daesh the moment he was released. As soon as he got here, he started to gather all of the other children together to give them lectures on Islam and lead them in prayer, just as he had learnt in Daesh.' 'You put something as a cute as Daesh indoctrination in a child's mind and it does not come out very easily' he added.

Earlier this year, it was revealed that ISIS launched an app which teaches Arabic alphabets to its ‘Cubs of the Caliphate’ using cartoon images of weaponry, like tanks, ammunition and swords. In response to military setbacks in Iraq and Syria, ISIS have increased the number of suicide attacks by the ‘Cubs of Caliphate’.