“I was surprised how young these [KH recruits] were. They didn’t know how to load a magazine or shoot their gun. I asked and they told me they were born in 1997 and 1998 [16- and 17-year-olds].”Maggie Fick, “Underage fighters drawn into Iraq sectarian war,” Reuters, July 11, 2014, http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/07/11/us-iraq-security-teenagers-insight-idUSKBN0FG1UG20140711.