ISLAMABAD , Pakistan ( CNN ) -- A top Taliban leader in Pakistan is buying and selling children for suicide bombings , Pakistani and U.S. officials said . Children are shown at a training camp in this video footage shot by the Taliban . Taliban leader Baitullah Mehsud has been increasingly using the children in attacks , the officials said . A video released by Pakistan 's military shows the children training for the task . In the video of a training camp , children can be seen going through exercises . Mehsud has been selling the children , once trained , to other Taliban officials for $ 6,000 to $ 12,000 , Pakistani military officials said . Watch more about the child bombers » . Some of the children are as young as 11 , the officials said . `` He has been admitting he holds a training center for young boys , for preparing them for suicide bombing . So he is on record saying all this , accepting these crimes , '' said Major General Akhtar Abbas , spokesman for the Pakistani army . The young suicide bombers may be able to reach targets unnoticed , the military said . `` If he is approaching on foot , there is a possibility he will bypass security , '' Abbas said . `` In certain areas , there is a possibility in the population centers everyone can not be checked physically , so he can create havoc there . '' Pakistan has launched an offensive against the Taliban , started in the Swat region of the North West Frontier Province . The Taliban have countered with a spate of suicide bombings , including a July 2 attack in Rawalpindi , in which a suicide bomber on a motorcycle struck a Pakistani Defense Ministry bus . At least one person was killed and 29 others were wounded . Pakistan 's army said it is hunting Mehsud in the hopes that the supply of suicide bombers will dry up after the Taliban leader is captured . Meanwhile , a suspected U.S. drone attack killed at least 12 people and wounded five others in northwest Pakistan Tuesday , Pakistani officials said . The missile strikes in South Waziristan targeted a suspected Taliban hideout at a madrassa , or Muslim school , in Zangarah , according to intelligence officials . The attack near the border with Afghanistan involved a pair of missiles shot from an unmanned drone , local resident Janbaz Mehsud told CNN . He said all the dead and wounded were Taliban . A local government official , who asked not to be named , said the madrassa was a training center for the Taliban and belongs to Baitullah Mehsud . That official put the death toll at 14 , but said the number of dead could rise . The U.S. military routinely offers no comment on reported drone attacks . However , the United States is the only country operating in the region known to have the ability to launch missiles from drones , which are controlled remotely .
Official : CNN increasingly using the children in attacks . Video of a training camp shows children going through exercises . Some of the children are at least 12 , the officials say . Suspected Pakistan drone attack kills as young as 11 people in northwest U.S. .