Screen shot of child taking target practice. Photo: Youtube.

A video making the rounds on the internet shows children as young as five shooting weapons at an Al-Qaeda training camp.

The boys stand, sit and lie in rows while taking target practice. The weapons of choice appear to be AK-47s, pistols and, ironically, Israeli-made Negev machine guns.

According to the UK’s Daily Mail, many of the kids are the children of “martyrs,” now being trained in the family business.

The terrifying footage was taken from an Al Qaeda terror camp in north Waziristan, near the Pakistan-Afghanistan border.

The video was initially posted on an underground al Qaeda website and is believed to have been issued by the Turkistan Islamic Party, which trains insurgents to fight alongside the Taliban in Afghanistan.

Watch video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=N6OnNz07L-w