Taliban Execute 15 Pakistani Troops (Graphic) Raw Footage

Taliban Execute 15 Pakistani Troops (Graphic) Raw Footage

 Part of channel(s): Afghanistan (current event)

(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.

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