A video showing fifteen Pakistani soldiers being lined up and shot dead by a firing squad has been released by the Taliban.
The paramilitary troops were abducted on December 23 in what the terror group described as an operation to avenge the deaths of insurgents in Pakistan.
The release of the horrific video is intended to serve as a warning to Pakistan's 600,000-member army, which has failed to break the back of the insurgents despite superior firepower and a series of offensives against their strongholds in mountain regions.
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Disturbing footage: The paramilitary troops were abducted by Pakistan's Taliban on December 23 and in the video, they are shown to be handcuffed, blindfolded and lined up, before being shot at point-blank range
The men are standing quietly until fighters stepped up and took turns pumping bullets into the men, some of which were wearing green military uniforms
Each time a soldier collapses, the man standing next to him is pulled in that direction by the handcuffs
In the video Taliban chanting can be heard: 'We will cross all limits to avenge your blood,' it said, referring to fighters killed by Pakistani security forces
The abducted soldiers were stood blindfolded, handcuffed to each other on a barren hilltop as one of their bearded Taliban captors held an AK-47 rifle and spoke with fury about revenge.
'Twelve of our comrades were besieged and mercilessly martyred in the Khyber Agency (area),' said the militant.
'Our pious women were also targeted. To avenge those comrades, we will kill these men. We warn the government of Pakistan that if the killing of our friends is not halted, this will be the fate of you all.'
Before death, one of the men described how dozens of Taliban fighters stormed their fort in the northwestern Tank district and kidnapped the soldiers.
'They attacked us with rockets, killed a sentry. One ran away. The Taliban entered the fort and captured us with our weapons,' he said, sitting in rows with other soldiers with their arms folded and legs crossed in front of Taliban banners.
'They tied our hands, put us in a Datsun and took us away.'
Before death, one of the men described how dozens of Taliban fighters stormed their fort in the northwestern Tank district and kidnapped the soldiers
The video shows one of the men shoving a clip into his assault rifle and fires a few rounds into the back of the heads of a few of the soldiers. while the chant 'God is greatest,' is heard in the background
Warning: The release of the video showing the soldiers is intended to serve as a warning to Pakistan's 600,000-member army
The video then shows the men standing quietly. Taliban chanting can be heard. 'We will cross all limits to avenge your blood,' it said, referring to fighters killed by Pakistani security forces.
One of the men shoves a clip into his assault rifle and fires a few rounds into the back of the heads of a few of the soldiers. 'God is greatest,' the Taliban yell.
Other fighters step up and take turns pumping bullets into the men, some wearing green military uniforms. Each time a soldier collapses, the man standing next to him is pulled in that direction by the handcuffs.
The Taliban and Pakistan's military, one of the largest in the world, have entered exploratory peace talks that raised hopes that their conflict, which has killed thousands of people, could ease, or even end one day.
But the talks have faltered, a senior Pakistani security official told Reuters, and the video - copied to compact discs and distributed in street markets in areas near the porous border with Afghanistan - is likely to enrage the army.
Formed in 2007, the TTP is an umbrella group of Pakistani militant factions operating in Pakistan's tribal areas.
Allied with the Afghan Taliban and al Qaeda, it pledged to overthrow the Pakistani government after the military started operations against militant groups.
It is blamed for many of the suicide bombings across the country and has carried out audacious attacks, including one on army headquarters near the capital Islamabad in 2009.
After the shooting ends in the video, the Taliban militants stare at the bodies slumped over on the earth.
'If the killing of our friends is not stopped, this will be the fate of all infidel armies, God willing,' says one militant.
Majeed Marwat, a commander of the Frontier Corps said morale among his men would always remain high despite such videos.
'Our soldiers enlist because they want to sacrifice for the country. We are taking care of the families of the martyred soldiers,' he told Reuters.
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January 22 2012, 3:52 PM
Pakistan was the only country on Earth with maybe 2 Persian Gulf countries to recognize the Taliban-rules in Afghanistan.
Pakistan sleeps with the devil when it accepted money from the Oil Sheik in exchange of the establishment of more terror-incubator islamic Madrassa on its soil.
Now the same islamist fanaticals, that Pakistan supported years ago, are turning agaisnt its former master/ally. You will reap what you sow.
RIP for the innocent pakistani troopers.
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January 22 2012, 3:57 PM
I don't know who to root for the good Taliban or the good Pakistani army.
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January 22 2012, 4:09 PM
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January 22 2012, 4:23 PM
How many "prisoners" that the Taliban take are actually released ? I get the impression that they are killing almost everyone they capture, the few Western troops they can get their hands on, normal civilians, Police, aidworkers, Afghan or Pakistani military or whatever alike and at the same time calling everyone not radically crazy like them evil crusader facists. And some People are even in this forum here arguing that these crazy whores are doing the right thing.
RIP to the murdered soldiers.
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January 22 2012, 5:51 PM
These animal has few more breath left,,,once Afghan problem is resolve then they are dead. Right now they are taking revenge of the death of their comrades. Poor FC is local police militia. They are not hardcore warrior. But US trainer will resume their training soon. May be mid of this year. These FC guys really need good training and good equipment. With motorola radio and kalashankov is not good enough..
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January 22 2012, 6:03 PM
Haider, I am afraid you are falling for another empty promise of tackling the Islamist threat in Pakistan. Remember a couple of years ago when ISI agents got killed by a bomb, every Pakistani here was saying "Now they are gonna get it, it's game over for them". Yet we now know that Pakistan has kept these islamists alive and has supported them in their attacks in A'stan. There are also serious suspicious, to put in mildly, about (elements in) the Pakistani government or ISI to support OBL.
Things will not change in Pakistan unless the people start hating those islamists, unless these elements in the government and ISI who keep supporting these Islamists to have a trump card in A'stan and against India are removed from power. But that is very unlikely to happen. So the conclusion is that nothing will change and Pakistan will keep falling deeper and deeper in hell which ultimately will have disastrous consequences for the country. A civil war or a war with India is not excluded. Heck, I wouldn't even exclude Pakistan using its nuclear arsenal in the near future.
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January 22 2012, 6:27 PM
No Eric lot has been changed,,,now they are confined to North Wazirstan. After many sacrifice and i would say Pakistan media played vital role in killing wahabi ideology. Its not war killing human being its war of ideology. Once ideology is killed rest easily disperse....plus Pakistan really need sincere govt not corrupts like PPP. Its another game of employment....
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January 23 2012, 1:49 AM
\\I dont know why the paakistani people are still tolerating this inept goverment. \\
There is as such no govt in Pakistan. The army which is pretty much a rogue army calls the shots.A third of the army is 100% Islamist and supports the terrorists for Islamic Jihad sake.The other third of the Army is semi-Islamist but does not mind using the more Islamist faction both within the Army and outside to bleed India and America for strategic gains.The remaining part of the Army is throughly corrupt and uses both the above factions as bargaining ships in getting more money as aid from the Americans which they will loot for themselves.
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January 23 2012, 4:19 AM
Actually a good job by taliban. They can't take prisoner of war and house and feed them. So they gave a clean death to the enemy. These paki soldiers are the victim of paki elite's duplicity. Pakis kill their own citizens and others in worse ways, including journalists that expose ISI. Any execution video is "horrific". Why blame taliban for it?
In a few years, West will be talking to good taliban for forming afghan govt. So go easy on these talibans, at least in this case.
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January 23 2012, 1:57 PM
RIP to those soldiers....
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January 24 2012, 12:57 AM
"These animal has few more breath left,,,once Afghan problem is resolve then they are dead."
What Afghan problem? You believe that when the homicidal manics (such as the executioners in the video) in Afghanistan have no more westerners or Afghan government troops to shoot at that they are just going to give up? You don't think they will look at their "victory" and then look at the weak and inept government in Pakistan and say to themselves, "hey we could probably get a slice of the action in Pakistan too." ...is that what you think? I am sorry but psychopaths and sociopaths always need to push the bounds to see what they can get away with.
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January 24 2012, 1:34 AM
"What Afghan problem? You believe that when the homicidal manics (such as the executioners in the video) in Afghanistan have no more westerners or Afghan government troops to shoot at that they are just going to give up? You don't think they will look at their "victory" and then look at the weak and inept government in Pakistan and say to themselves, "hey we could probably get a slice of the action in Pakistan too." ...is that what you think? I am sorry but psychopaths and sociopaths always need to push the bounds to see what they can get away with."
Problem with this argument is that they were just fine when they were doing our dirty work. Yes sir that is right, I can still remember in disgust when I picked up a Soldier of Fortune mag with a picture of a Taliban on the front with the words Freedom Fighter. Feckistan loved these guys, they were good for them now they are bad? Feckistan made a great deal of money and got political dividends from these animals! But now they are animals? Only now? The US loved these guys when they were killing Russians, this was not a problem then but now it is?.
Maybe next time we need to make better friends! But for now do we really have to pretend that they just turned bad now? Like in the last 5 minutes?
Would Abraham Lincoln make friends with people like these? Hmm inquiring minds want to know, as one spook type once said "Give them the guns, let God sort it out"
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January 25 2012, 3:18 AM
Feel Bad for poor soldiers who are a victim of their army and govt top brass policies of harboring and nurturing Islamic terrorists"""""""""""""""""""""""""""""
taliban kills just for the sake of killing.
they blow up bombs in croweded places regardless of the fact that 80% of the people they are killing are either pro talibans or women and children.
it dosnt matter to them if all those men were infact pro taliban.
majority of population in nwfp is pro al-quida and pro taliban.
rest of pakifvckistan is same. terrorists are no ones brothers, pakistan will learn that the hard way ,maybe some day
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January 25 2012, 5:27 AM
And may the animals who murdered them die soon, and painfully, so they can then burn in hell.
What a hypocrite!!
You wish a painful death for the taliban for killing phuckistanis, but when a bunch of marines urinate on dead taliban for killing their comrades you call them inhumane?
British PM David Cameron: There will be lots of questions about what support system bin Laden had in Pakistan, and we need those questions answered
White House counterterrorism chief John Brennan: Certainly his location there outside of the capital raises questions. We are talking to the Pakistanis about this. It's inconceivable that bin Laden did not have a support system in the country that allowed him to remain there for an extended period of time
Our government is in fiscal distress. To make contributions to a country that isn't going to be fully supportive is a problem for many, said US senate intelligence committee chair Dianne Feinstein
German chancellor Angela Merkel: The al-Qaida leader's death has exposed some gaps in antiterrorism campaign
French foreign minister Alain Juppe: I find it a little difficult to imagine that the presence of someone like bin Laden ... in a relatively small town could go completely unnoticed. Pakistans position lacks clarity in our view
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January 25 2012, 6:16 AM
For few retard Indians and a one retard turk....this North Wazirstan area is always a trouble zone since last 100 years. This zone is right between Pakistan and Afghanistan, its partially independent Tribal region which has FCR Act 1942, British establish this law after retreat from this particular zone.
A good read from British writer...
To my surprise, Roe in his book on Waziristan notes that the British in the 1930s had their own debate, similar to the one inside our military now, about whether they were too focused on small wars. As one officer wrote in 1932,
Surely no one wants an army trained on North-West Frontier lines only... Any tendency towards specialization for mountain warfare operations on the North-West Frontier must be resisted. These are a very small part of the Army's possible commitments, and specialization means a waste of part of our already very small army.
British operation in North Waziristan
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January 25 2012, 4:34 PM
wow! RIP to those brave soldiers who fight for freedom and justice!! It really thouched me! Those facking asslickers call themself Freedom fighters while they murder these innocent brave soldiers! Some of those soldiers have children and wives for god sake what are they going to do!!!!! BARBARIANS THOSE INSECTS!!!
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