Taliban Execute 15 Pakistani Troops (January 2012)

[TN2IC]

(January 2012) This video was posted in a news clip but this is the RAW footage, no commentary. Not sure if the raw footage had been posted on liveleak of this recent execution. Graphic warning.

Looking at other vids and images on various news networks including the link below to the New York post, this video is legitimate. (See image in first link of Ny post).

Taliban militants have released a video showing the execution of 15 Pakistani soldiers whose bodies were found earlier this month after they were kidnapped in northwestern Pakistan.

The Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan had claimed responsibility for the killings. The 15 FC (Frontier Constabulary) personnel were kidnapped late last month after a night-time raid on a checkpoint in the northwestern town of Tank. Pakistan's seven tribal districts near the Afghan border, including North Waziristan, are rife with home-grown insurgents and are strongholds of Taliban and al-Qaeda
operatives. The video, a copy of which was obtained by AFP, was released over the weekend and shows the blindfolded soldiers sitting in three rows on a hillside.

The soldiers had their hands tied behind their backs and were flanked by two masked gunmen.

http://www.nypost.com/p/news/international/taliban_snuff_vid_xPRxIXH5obBvGvY2TBepQJ

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/pakistan/9030873/Taliban-video-shows-execution-of-Pakistani-soldiers.html

 

[Jarnhamar]

I hope Pakistani soldiers fight back twice as hard and don't take prisoners.

 

[Chalupas]

Couldn't have said it better

 

[Edward Campbell]

Rather than start a new thread I thought I would just add this story, which is reproduced under the Fair Dealing provisions of the Copyright Act from the Globe and Mail, here:

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/world/taliban-behead-17-afghan-civilians-for-taking-part-in-music-event/article4500518/

Taliban behead 17 Afghan civilians for taking part in music event

MIRWAIS KHAN
Kandahar — The Associated Press

Published Monday, Aug. 27 2012

Afghan officials say Taliban insurgents have beheaded 17 Afghan civilians for taking part in a music event in a Taliban-controlled area of southern Afghanistan.

The Interior Ministry says the attack happened Sunday in Helmand province and that gunfire was also involved.

Helmand provincial government spokesman Daoud Ahmadi says the attack happened in Musa Qala district. Mr. Ahmadi says all of the victims had their heads chopped off. He says it was not clear if they were shot first.

The Musa Qala government chief says the people had gathered for a celebration and were playing music and dancing and the insurgents wanted to stop the event. Neyamatullah Khan says the area where the slaughter took place is completely in Taliban control and so he does not have more details yet.

Some years ago I was told, by a fellow with many, many years of experience in the Middle East and West Asia, that these sorts of things - women being fully covered in burqas, no music or dancing, etc - have nothing much to do with Islam, per se, but are, rather, reflections of the cultural values in the region: people are property, the strong can do as they will with the weak, and so on.

 

[jollyjacktar]

Not that they'll (Taliban for sure and perhaps the sycophants too) care about public opinion, it will perhaps show some of the apologists here in the West just what kind of animals the Taliban are.  Not the "brave resistance fighters etc etc etc." that the whingers like to tout.  :boke:

 

[Bass ackwards]

Why do we read the comments on CBC ?
We all know better.
And still we read them -like the proverbial train wreck you can't look away from.
...sigh

:brickwall: