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| US urges Pakistan to probe execution video |
| 2010-10-02 |
| [Dawn] The United States is urging Pakistain to investigate video clips on the Internet that appear to show Pak soldiers summarily executing six blindfolded young men. "We have raised this issue with ... the Pak government," State Department front man Philip Crowley said in a briefing Thursday. "We ... have encouraged them to investigate it fully," he said. "We take all allegations of human rights violations... very seriously. Human rights and the issue of extrajudicial killings has been a part of our ongoing conversation... with Pakistain," Crowley said. "It's been recorded in our previous human rights reports, and we are awaiting further information from Pakistain," he said. One video clip on the Site Intelligence Group website showed men carrying rifles and wearing military uniforms and helmets line up six blindfolded men in long robes, hands apparently bound behind their backs. The men in uniform stepped back from the young men and opened fire on them. After they dropped to the ground, one of the uniformed men fired shots into their crumpled bodies. The second video just showed the apparent execution. Site said the "two clips showing what a jihadist described as Pak soldiers firing upon innocent Mohammedans in Swat, a district in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, formerly NWFP, aka Terrorism Central province of Pakistain, has sparked outrage amongst jihadists. "The two clips, which seem to have been recorded with two mobile phones, were distributed on jihadist forums on September 23, 2010," it added. The jihadist who posted the clips wrote in a message posting: Is Mohammedan blood cheap or amusing. To all the agents of America, may Allah curse you for your monstrous actions in what you call the war on terror in Swat. "Allah, such actions are truly terrorism, and those shedding the blood of Mohammedans are biggest traitors to the Islamic Ummah,'" Site said. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #4 There was a time that we did not have to "urge" another nation into the action of doing the right thing...... |
| Posted by: Uncle Phester 2010-10-02 16:10 |
| #3 Maybe they were captured non-uniformed combatants? Summary field executions of such used to be allowed. |
| Posted by: Glenmore 2010-10-02 08:33 |
| #2 I'd be more concern with executions happening right now just across our own border to the south. Or for that matter, in the 'hood back here by their agents. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2010-10-02 08:21 |
| #1 Al-Jazeera tape from HuffPost. |
| Posted by: tipper 2010-10-02 07:10 |