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December 28, 2005
Afghanistan: Islamist Decapitation Video Hints At Handiwork Of Al-Zarqawi
Today's AKI states that a video of an Afghan man being decapitated bears the hallmarks of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi's group, Al Qaeda in Iraq.
Taken on September 12, the video has only recently appeared on internet sites. The video has a title - "Death Sentence" and it has a label "Labbaik", the logo of a video company which is used by militant groups in Afghanistan, which recently filmed the four individuals who escaped from a US military jail in Afghanistan.
The hostage (pictured), talking in Pashtu, says in the video: "My name is Sayd Allah Khan and I am from the Khost province. I work as a spy for the Americans along with four other people. My job is to blow up Islamic schools in Waziristan. The group receives 45,000 dollars and my share is 7,000 dollars."
Waziristan is in Pakistan on the porous border with Afghanistan, and as we reported earlier, it is a home for both Taliban and al-Qaeda militants. It is currently home to a large contingent of the Pakistani military.
The video follows all the conventions set in previous snuff films produced by al-Zarqawi. The victim is forced to confess, then after images of the US President and troops, and the narrated words "al-Zarqawi", the victim is shown being held down by seven individuals while his throat is slit and his head sawn off, while his murderers shout "Allahu Aqbar," urging in Pashtu tongue for jihad. Finally, Sayd Allah Khan's head is shown placed upon his prone back.
AKI notes that the al-Qaeda leadership had formerly resisted decapitations, but now the practice has reached Afghanistan, perhaps a sign of the elevation of al-Zarqawi within the al-Qaeda leadership.
Posted by Giraldus Cambrensis at December 28, 2005 11:09 AM
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