Al-Qaeda uses Children to execute other Sunni/Shiite Muslims

[K e r b e r o s]

April 21. 2007 1:00PM

Jihadist Video Shows Boy Beheading Man
By ABDUL SATTAR
Associated Press Writer

The boy with the knife looks barely 12. In a high-pitched voice, he denounces the bound, blindfolded man before him as an American spy. Then he hacks off the captive's head to cries of "God is great!" and hoists it in triumph by the hair.

A video circulating in Pakistan records the grisly death of Ghulam Nabi, a Pakistani militant accused of betraying a top Taliban official who was killed in a December airstrike in Afghanistan.

An Associated Press reporter confirmed Nabi's identity by visiting his family in Kili Faqiran, their remote village in southwestern Pakistan.

The video, which was obtained by AP Television News in the border city of Peshawar on Tuesday, appears authentic and is unprecedented in jihadist propaganda because of the youth of the executioner.

Captions mention Mullah Dadullah, the Taliban's current top commander in southern Afghanistan, although he does not appear in the video. The soundtrack features songs praising Taliban supreme leader Mullah Omar and "Sheikh Osama" - an apparent reference to Osama bin Laden, who is suspected of hiding along the Afghan-Pakistan border.

The footage shows Nabi making what is described as a confession, being blindfolded with a checkered scarf.

"He is an American spy. Those who do this kind of thing will get this kind of fate," says his baby-faced executioner, who is not identified.

A continuous 2 1/2-minute shot then shows the victim lying on his side on a patch of rubble-strewn ground. A man holds Nabi by his beard while the boy, wearing a camouflage military jacket and oversized white sneakers, cuts into the throat. Other men and boys call out "Allahu akbar!" - "God is great!" - as blood spurts from the wound.

The film, overlain with jihadi songs, then shows the boy hacking and slashing at the man's neck until the head is severed.

A Pashto-language voiceover in the video identifies Nabi and his home village of Kili Faqiran in Baluchistan province, which lies about two hours' drive from the Afghan border.

A reporter went to the village, and Nabi's distraught and angry father, Ghulam Sakhi, confirmed his son's identity from a still picture that AP made from the footage. He said neighbors had told him the video is available at the village bazaar, but he had no wish to see it.

Sakhi said his son had been a loyal Taliban member who fought in Afghanistan and sheltered the hard-line Afghan group's leaders in the family's mud-walled compound.

He blames the Taliban and wants to avenge his son's death.

"The Taliban are not mujahedeen. They are not fighting for the cause of Islam," the 70-year-old said. "If I got my hands on them I would kill them and even tear their flesh with my own teeth."

Qari Yousaf Ahmadi, who claims to speak for the Taliban, told AP he had no information about Nabi or the video. None of the group's commanders he contacted could confirm the execution, he said.

The method of Nabi's death was not unusual for Pakistan's lawless tribal regions. Suspected informers are regularly found beheaded and dumped along the side of the road in the lawless, mountainous regions along the Afghan-Pakistani border where al-Qaida and Taliban militants find sanctuary.

But such al-Qaida-style killings are rarely featured in the Taliban's increasingly frequent propaganda videos. The use of a child to conduct the beheading stands out even among those filmed by militants in Iraq.

"This is outright barbarism," Iqbal Haider, secretary-general of the independent Human Rights Commission of Pakistan, said after viewing the video. "Whosoever has committed this, whether they are Taliban or anybody else or any Afghan or al-Qaida or anybody, they are enemy No. 1 of the Muslims."

The video accuses Nabi of responsibility for a U.S. airstrike that killed Mullah Akhtar Mohammad Osmani, who was regarded as one of the top three associates of Omar, the Taliban supreme leader. He was hit while traveling by car in Afghanistan's Helmand province Dec. 19.

Osmani was the highest-ranking Taliban leader to die since the U.S.-led invasion of Afghanistan that ousted the hard-line regime in late 2001 for refusing to hand over bin Laden following the Sept. 11 terror attack on the United States.

The U.S. military said at the time that Osmani's death was a serious blow to militant operations, and NATO commanders said this week that a feared spring offensive had yet to materialize.

Sakhi, a retired mosque preacher with a long gray beard, spoke unashamedly of his son's Taliban affiliation and wept twice during an interview in his simple home at the foot of a mountain valley in Baluchistan province.

He said Nabi fought against the anti-Taliban Northern Alliance that helped U.S. forces to victory in Afghanistan.

After returning to Pakistan, Nabi ran a religious school in the Baluchistan capital of Quetta and had regularly sheltered both Osmani and Dadullah at the family compound, the father said.

He said Nabi also bought weapons for Taliban fighters and organized medical treatment for those injured during fighting in Afghanistan.

Some days after Osmani's death, Nabi went to Peshawar and then to Wana, a tribal town considered a militant stronghold, to collect money from Taliban officials to buy guns and food for militants in Afghanistan, Sakhi said.

He said his son called at the end of January to reveal that a tribal council had sentenced him to death on charges of tipping off U.S. forces about Osmani's movements, despite his denials.

His son passed the phone to Dadullah, but the militant leader ignored his pleas for clemency, Sakhi said.

"I talked to him and said you visited us and my son was a close friend so why are you going to hang him? He just said, 'How are you?', and switched off the phone," Sakhi said.

"They are the enemies of Islam," he said of the Taliban. "They are behaving like savages."

Sam Zarifi, Asia research director for Human Rights Watch, said the use of a child to commit such an act constituted a war crime and was a "new low" in the conflict in Afghanistan.

He noted the Taliban had teenage combatants but they were not recruited on a large scale because of the availability of adult fighters. He said he had seen children in the background of some jihadist videos but none in which they were directly involved in violence.

"I don't know why they would do this," Zarifi said. "The Taliban have to some extent tried to play to the public in Afghanistan and have not engaged in the complete sowing of mayhem that we have seen in Iraq. But this kind of act is really egregious. It's off the charts."

This is not suprising considering the extent Al-Qaeda and other religious extremist groups have gone to indoctrinate whats being identified now as a young, "Warrior" Generation. Children without fear of war, death, and above all, without a sense of morality and in these cases, they're own religion.

I expect news like this won't be appreciated very much but for what its worth, I'd just like to add how upsetting this killing is, not just because of its brutality, but because the cowardly men around this act forced someone as much as 20 to 30 youngers then them to commit this attrocity of war.

I guess a question for all of you to start the debate -- is anyone else noticing the almost slanted change in the Al-Qaeda belief system? In under four years its gone from being devout Muslim to an almost unidentified and butchered appreciation for the belief system, where members are now so torn with a sense of emotional or psychological defeat because of the war and they're strategical losses, that in they're own military frusterations, they're turning on they're own people and encouraging it; without distinction, pitty, hestitation, or remorse.

And at its root, its still fact that its barbarism knows no limit -- but above all, the fact Al-Qaeda in Afghanistan is now perpetraiting these attrocities on the same scale Zarqwai did before his fall in Iraq.

 

[pvtbones]

absolutely disgusting.

no other words can even attempt to describe it.

although I do wonder how much play it'll get in the media.

*EDIT* a link would a good idea, for verification purposes.

 

[Atomic_Piggy]

Sick. Good to know sane muslisms aren't standing for it.

 

[Jintor]

Oh, great...

 

[Sulkdodds]

The real tragedy here is the propogation of pure brutality into new generations.

 

[CptStern]

pretty horrible but this is expected ..how else would they convince someone to strap themselves full of explosives and commit acts of terorism ...desparate times calls for desparate measures. However there is just as much indoctrination in the enemy. The tactics are nowhere near as brutal however the effect is the same: keep them blind to the reality around them and they'll become willing pawns eager to sacrifice themselves for some false goal

 

[Absinthe]

Muslims act violent.

The world is shocked.

 

[Tyguy]

http://www.halflife2.net/forums/showthread.php?t=113333&highlight=rosie+comment

reminded me of this

 

[CptStern]

oh there's plenty of examples of krazy kristians killing people ...Jim Jones, David Koresh, in nigeria, abortion clinic bombers, and even this guy:

'God told me to strike at al Qaida and I struck them, and then he instructed me to strike at Saddam, which I did.." - George W Bush





even the jews are not free of murderous extremism ..same goes for Hindus and pretty much every ethnic/religious group out there ....dont be pointing fingers when your side is just as capable ..bottom line extremist groups suck

 

[Tyguy]

im not pointing fingers, all sides have their extremists....yet it seems pretty obvious that some sides are more so

 

[CptStern]

context ..what's more extreme? beading someone or launching a war that has cost the lives of hundreds of thousands of innocents based entirely on lies?

 

[Sidewinder]

aye,I have seen the Video it is truly sickening,but like stern said the US isn't shooting wit sugar caynes either.

 

[Tyguy]

I dont see the war religion based, however if he did in fact go to war just because god told him to, then you have a point

 

[Absinthe]

Rarely are atrocities confined to one single faith. Christianity may be more "civilized" in its conduct, but its method of perpetuating violence and misery is certainly more insidious and subversive than Islam's today.

But there is no denying that it is Islam - and Islam alone for the most part in this era - that revels in its utterly grotesque displays. Whether or not that's intrinsic to the faith or due to some other cultural factor doesn't mean too much. Either way, it's only teaching people that Islam is becoming increasingly invalid and unable to co-exist with modern ideals.

It shocks me that anybody can think that these acts are beneficial to any Muslim cause of any sort. Sure, they do a good job of demoralizing and freaking out your enemies. But surely somebody over there has the foresight of recognizing that sawing heads off on television is just a stepping stone on the path to their self-destruction. Something's gotta give. Somewhere down the line, people are going to refuse to put up with this shit and the results will be disastrous for Islam. Christianity can probably afford a longer lifespan than Islam simply because vulgar displays of power have dropped out of its common practice. Out of sight, out of mind.

*Edited because I realized Stern was not talking to me. :O

 

[CptStern]

yes but prior to the war on terror it was mostly localized terror and nowhere near in this wide a scope. I often wonder how christian radicals would react if the US was taken over by some occupying force ..or any fringe group for that matter ..how soon would we see atrocities commited in the name of whatever god/ideology ..it's the seige mentality: "desparate times calls for desparate measures" and all that

 

[Absinthe]

You'd probably get quite a few Christians who would resort to such measures. I'd argue you'd probably have far less than Muslims though, mainly due to the temperment of modern life and ideals in the United States. There's generally a less gung-ho attitude towards public decapitation and all that... We don't have years and years of being brought up in backward societies.

But we can't really test that theory out at the moment. As unfair as it may seem, Islam is under the spotlight for now precisely because of acts detailed in the topic post. It appears there are too few people over there that see these things as quite bad in the long run.

Or maybe I'm mistaken. In a world where people have tolerated religious atrocities for thousands of years, maybe I'm the one not being sane.

 

[CptStern]

I can see a power play happening between the various factions in the US ..I mean there's already militia groups that are prepared for this sort of thing ...but the US being predominately christian, naturally extremist groups from other religions would most likely not have a chance to flourish ..they'd probably even be targeted ...."strange fruit" mentality wouldnt be confined to just the deep south

 

[Sulkdodds]

I think violent crazyhouse would be less likely in the USA because there is a very well-developed middle-class with holdings of their own. They are not going to join resistance organisations or endanger their assets because they have something to lose.

 

[Beerdude26]

Retarded batshit insane "things" act violent.

Muslims are shocked.

fixed lol

 

[K e r b e r o s]

Rarely are atrocities confined to one single faith. Christianity may be more "civilized" in its conduct, but its method of perpetuating violence and misery is certainly more insidious and subversive than Islam's today.

Though it exists, militant Islam is far more insidious, organized, broadcast, and subversive than Christian Extremism.

www.pmw.org.il

 

[Sulkdodds]

Not all Shiites are Muslims, but all Muslims are shite.

 

[simonjedi]

he'll be killing ducks soon i bet he will.

OT: that's increadibly horrible