Video shows beheading of Pakistani by boy, 12
A VIDEO showing a boy of 12 beheading a militant has been circulating in Pakistan.
In a high-pitched voice, the youth denounces the bound, blindfolded man as an American spy. Then he appears to behead the captive, to cries of “God is great!”
The alleged victim is Ghulam Nabi, a Pakistani militant accused of betraying a top Taleban official who was killed in an air-strike in Afghanistan in December.
The video, obtained by a news agency in the border city of Peshawar, appears authentic and is unprecedented in jihadist propaganda because of the youth of the executioner.
Captions mention Mullah Dadullah, the Taleban’s top commander in southern Afghanistan, though he does not appear in the video. The soundtrack features songs praising the Taleban’s supreme leader, Mullah Omar, and “Sheikh Osama” - an apparent reference to Osama bin Laden, who is suspected to be hiding along the Afghan-Pakistan border.
