An Afghan soldier salutes and reports during a security transition ceremony on Camp Sayar in Farah City, Afghanistan, Dec. 12, 2012. U.S. Navy photo by Lt. j.g. Matthew Stroup
Video Shown of Apparent Execution of Afghan Soldier -- New York Times
KABUL, Afghanistan — Mohammad Jan’s killers did not even do him the decency of looking him in the eye.
In a distressing video aired on national television stations here on Thursday night, the Afghan National Army soldier first has his army identity card stuck in his mouth and is then ordered to say his name out loud, but can only mumble unintelligibly because of the card.
The scene cuts and one of the killers stands behind him and shoots him in the head with a pistol, five times. Another man stands off to the side, out of his victim’s view, and fires three bursts from his AK-47 rifle into his torso, which convulses at each round.
It was yet another example of a terrible truth, one that has been a commonplace for so long that it is seldom commented upon: insurgents in Afghanistan rarely take any prisoners
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My Comment: Airing this video on Afghan TV is only going to tell the Afghan soldiers that surrender is not an option .... that they must fight to the death. On the flip side .... I will not be surprised if we start hearing numerous reports of the Afghan Army executing Taliban prisoners. With U.S./NATO forces withdrawing, it will only be a matter of time before there will no longer be any ISAF supervision of prisoners captured, and Afghans will start to mete out justice the Afghan way.
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