Posted on 08/31/2021 10:27:07 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
A video which has been claimed to show a condemned man being hanged from a helicopter seized by the Taliban appears to have been misleadingly captioned.
The 11-second clip - which has over 2m views and has been shared thousands of times on Twitter - is blurred and doesn’t give a clear indication of what is going on.
Further footage and still photographs seen by the BBC show that the man flying over the city of Kandahar is very much alive. These images show him wearing the Blackhawk helicopter’s diver’s winch and waving the Taliban flag.
Several Afghanistan experts, quoting Taliban sources, have told the BBC that the flight yesterday was an attempt to fix a flag over a public building using their newly-captured US-built equipment.
The helicopter appears to be the aircraft which was seen taxiing at Kandahar several days ago after it was seized by the Taliban from the Afghanistan Air Force. One defence analyst suggests the aircrew probably defected to the Taliban with their aircraft.
US-trained helicopter winch operators wear the loop at the back, which could easily be mistaken for a noose in poor quality video footage. British RAF, Royal Navy and HM Coastguard divers, on the other hand, wear the loop to their front.
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Good call....
at this point, does it really matter?
its not hanging hanging, just regular hanging .
They left it for the Afghan army to use. Unfortunately that army ceased to exist rather quickly.
The man is clearly “hanging”. But was he “executed”? Regardless, none of this would have been possible, if it were not for the “Executive action” of the POTUS, or should I say POS?
What better way to intimidate the populace into submission.
Bad optics no matter which way you swing it.
5.56mm
BBC News, Shayan Sardarizadeh and Alistair Coleman
Partisan Media Shills alert.
Ooooh! I like it!
bbc on the side of the taliban? bbc hoping to be the propaganda arm of the taliban? Hmmmm! Money!
The resolution isn’t good enough to see if there’s a rope around his neck. Seeing how kind, loving and caring the taliban is, I doubt this is just a publicity stunt.
Hey bbc crew, if the taliban is so nice, go there and surrender to them and you’ll see just how nice they are.
Whew...i feel better now...
NOT TO WORRY. The Biden lickspittles have assured us all the equipment was left inoperable. We did not see what we saw...
Just as I said in the previous thread on this. Being dropped from that height with a rope around your neck would decapitate you, not strangle you.
“Yeah. I was pretty sure that was a stretch.”
Doesn’t matter, I’ll blame Biden for this man being hanged. Either we learn to play by THEIR RULES, or we end up in camps - there is no middle ground, not anymore.
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