Authorities made Usaid Barho, 14, reenact his surrender in a show aired on state television Iraqiya.

BAGHDAD : A 14-year-old Syrian boy, clad in a vest lined with explosives, turned himself in to Iraqi authorities as he defected from the Islamic State terrorist group.

According to an NYT report, Usaid Barho walked up to a Shiite mosque in Baghdad’s neighborhood of Baiya that he had been ordered to target in a suicide attack.

“I opened up my jacket and said, ‘I have a suicide vest, but I don’t want to blow myself up,’” he said in an interview with the NYT at a secret Iraqi intelligence site.

As chaos erupted, plainclothes security officials removed the vest off of him as other officers scrambled to keep people at bay.

Barho was recruited by IS in a mosque in his war-torn hometown of Manbij, near Aleppo, which was overrun by the militant group.

“They seduced us to join the caliphate,” he said as he explained.

“They planted the idea in me that Shiites are infidels and we had to kill them.” If he did not fight, he was told, Shiites would come and rape his mother.

He was then taken to Iraq where time spent among the militants changed his view of the group.

“I noticed things I saw that were different from Islam.”

He spoke of the group’s imposition of severe punishment against those who were caught smoking when he saw fighters in training camps light cigarettes.

Barho said his discontent with the group grew by “the way they are killing innocent people.”

By the end of his training, he was taken to Iraq where he was given the choice between becoming a fighter or a suicide bomber.

“I raised my hand to be a suicide bomber,” he said, as he believed it would aid his plans of defecting.

Before war convulsed his hometown in Syria, Barho played soccer, loved Jackie Chan movies and adored Lebanese pop singer Nancy Ajram. He dreamed of attending college and becoming a doctor.

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