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  • 2021-08-24 (xsd:date)
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  • Video Doesn't Show America's Afghan Allies Being Executed by Taliban (en)
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  • On Aug. 24, 2021, Jarome Bell, a Republican politician running for a congressional seat in Virginia, shared a disturbing video on Twitter, along with the claim that it showed a group of Afghanistan soldiers who aided the United States being executed by the Taliban. Bell wrote: These men assisted our troops and were left behind with over 15000 Americans. This will be Joe Biden’s legacy and the democrats and some of you approve of this message. As the video Bell posted features a genuine execution, we won't post it here. Instead, here's a screenshot of Bell's tweet. But this video is not recent, and it was not taken in Afghanistan. It was posted to Liveleak back in the spring of 2014, and supposedly shows an incident from a few months prior in Syria. The Liveleak video is no longer available (the site was dissolved in May 2021) but a contemporaneous Blogger post stated that the video showed Syrian soldiers who had been guarding a hospital in Aleppo. While we can't verify the specifics of the video, the Organization for Democracy and Freedom in Syria did release a statement in March 2014 after the video originally went viral: In short, this video is real but it is not related to the United States' withdrawal from Afghanistan in August 2021. This video is from 2013, and appears to show an execution in Syria. (en)
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