The boys were taught to dismantle, clean and reassemble rifles, pistols and machine guns and are allowed to fire live ammunition. The children underwent a Mau Mau-like hardening course in which each boy was required to '''tear apart a live chicken''' to develop a "lust for killing."<ref>John Laffin, "Fedayeen; the Arab-Israeli Dilemma." Free Press, 1973. [https://books.google.com/books?id=VrsLAAAAIAAJ&focus=searchwithinvolume&q=Chicken pp. 96-97]</ref><ref>Arms Control and Disarmament: A Quarterly Bibliography with Abstracts and Annotations, Volume 6. Library of Congress. Arms Control and Disarmament Bibliography. 1969, [https://books.google.com/books?id=BDS27BqMWdgC&focus=searchwithinvolume&q=%22tear%C2%A0live%C2%A0chickens%22 p. 420] | The boys were taught to dismantle, clean and reassemble rifles, pistols and machine guns and are allowed to fire live ammunition. The children underwent a Mau Mau-like hardening course in which each boy was required to '''tear apart a live chicken''' to develop a "lust for killing."<ref>John Laffin, "Fedayeen; the Arab-Israeli Dilemma." Free Press, 1973. [https://books.google.com/books?id=VrsLAAAAIAAJ&focus=searchwithinvolume&q=Chicken pp. 96-97]</ref><ref>Arms Control and Disarmament: A Quarterly Bibliography with Abstracts and Annotations, Volume 6. Library of Congress. Arms Control and Disarmament Bibliography. 1969, [https://books.google.com/books?id=BDS27BqMWdgC&focus=searchwithinvolume&q=%22tear%C2%A0live%C2%A0chickens%22 p. 420] |