Today, 18 year old Abdul Wahab spends his days inside a high security detention center in Kabul.<br/> <br />Until a few months ago, he worked in a fruit market in Pakistan. Then one day, the teen, who walks with a limp, was approached by a member of the Taliban.<br/> <br />(SOUNDBITE)(Pashto) ABDUL WAHAB, DISABLED WOULD-BE SUICIDE BOMBER, SAYING:<br/> <br />"I was approached by a member of the Taliban who asked me to carry out a suicide attack. He knew me from before and said: 'Your parents are very old, you are not able to marry because you are disabled, you cant take care of yourself and a wife, it's good for you to carry out a suicide attack.' I asked him, 'Why don't you do it?' He said, 'Because I have a responsibility to prepare all Muslims for this mission."<br/> <br />Abdul is one of many prisoners at the National Directorate Security detention center in Kabul who are undergoing a deradicalisation process... education to help pry them away from the grips of the Taliban.<br/> <br />Lutfullah Mashal is the spokesperson for the center and says the Taliban tend to target poor, uneducated young boys.<br/> <br />(SOUNDBITE) (English) LUTFULLAH MASHAL, SPOKESMAN FOR NATIONAL DIRECTOR OF SECURITY (NDS) SAYING:<br/> <br />"They isolate them from the rest of the students, they train them and in most cases they hypnotize them. They work with them psychologically and they give them a wrong picture of Afghanistan."<br/> <br />While reading verses from the Koran, a cleric tells prisoners that suicide is forbidden in Islam. In fact, suicide attacks account for the second highest number of deaths after roadside bombs.<br/> <br />And with the 2014 troop withdrawal fast approaching, security officials hope to takle the problem sooner rather than later.<br/> <br />Julie Noce, Reuters
