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      Indian Media Falsely Claim Man Suspended From Helicopter Was Executed By Taliban

      Other videos and photos of the incident showed that the man was alive and wearing a harness.

      By - BOOM FACT Check Team | 1 Sep 2021 7:39 AM GMT
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    • Indian Media Falsely Claim Man Suspended From Helicopter Was Executed By Taliban

      An undated video showing a man dangling from a helicopter in Afghanistan's Kandahar city, went viral on Tuesday with a false claim that it showed a barbaric execution of a 'US interpreter' by the Taliban.

      However, other videos and photos of the incident proved the claim to be false as they showed that the man was alive and wearing a harness.

      The video is being shared in the backdrop of the United States withdrawing troops from Afghanistan on August 30, 2021, marking the end of the longest US war which spanned nearly two decades. The Taliban are reported to have recovered abandoned US military equipment that was left behind by the Afghan army

      including aircraft
      .


      The viral video was tweeted by Zee News Editor-in-chief Sudhir Choudhary with the caption, "Another landmark picture taking the world in a new era of terror. Taliban hang a person, presumed to be an American interpreter, from a U.S. Blackhawk helicopter. The left over US helicopters will now be used in #Afganistan like this."

      Another landmark picture taking the world in a new era of terror.
      Taliban hang a person, presumed to be an American interpreter, from a U.S. Blackhawk helicopter.
      The left over US helicopters will now be used in #Afganistan like this. pic.twitter.com/8q6C5bo4IB

      — Sudhir Chaudhary (@sudhirchaudhary) August 31, 2021

      Click here to view an archive

      The same video was aired by Arnab Goswami-led Republic TV, which ran a whole debate on the video claiming that it showed Taliban hanging a man from a US Black Hawk chopper.

      Click here to view

      Several other Indian news outlets including Aaj Tak, News 24, News 18, WION News, Navbharat Times, Dainik Bhaskar, Amar Ujala, Zee Hindustan, ABP News and right-leaning website OpIndia misreported the video too.


      Also Read: Indian News Channels Run Old Photos, Videos As Kabul Airport Terror Attack

      FACT-CHECK

      Origins of the video

      The viral video was initially tweeted on August 30, 2021, by the Twitter account Talib Times with the caption, "Our Air Force! At this time, the Islamic Emirate's air force helicopters are flying over Kandahar city and patrolling the city".


      Click here to view an archive

      BOOM also found that the same clip was earlier posted on Telegram by Tabasum Radio, an Afghan radio station, whose watermark can be seen in the video. However, there was no claim that it showed a man being hanged by the Taliban.


      Different angles from the incident show the man wearing a harness and waving

      We also found several other videos and photos that showed that the man spotted in the viral clip, could be seen wearing a harness and waving his hand, which established that he is alive and that a harness was mistaken for a noose around the man's neck.

      On searching with keywords such as 'Kandahar', 'helicopter', we found a video posted on Facebook shot from a different angle which showed the man moving his hands at the beginning of the clip. The video was posted by the user Khan Mohammad Ayan, with the caption when translated stated that the Taliban had tried to hoist their flag at the governor's office using a helicopter in Kandahar.

      The man's hand can be seen moving in the image below

      We also found another video, shot from near the governor's office building which shows the same helicopter, and the flag poles seen from below while the helicopter is hovering above it

      The video was posted by a local reporter in Kandahar - Arghand Abdulmanan with the caption when translated reads, "The plane arrived at the Kandahar governor's office to hoist the flag, One of the soldiers was also hoisted on a plane to raise the flag, but did not fly."

      This states that the man seen in the video is a Taliban soldier who was trying to hoist a Taliaban flag.

      Additionally, we also found photographs tweeted by the account Jahid Jalal (@A_Jahid_Jalal). Jalal had also posted a video shot from a different angle than the viral video.

      زموږ هوايي ځواک!
      همدا شيبه د اسلامي امارت د هوايي ځواک هليکوپترې د کندهار ښار په فضا باندې الوتنې کوي. @A_Jahid_Jalal pic.twitter.com/GW4QWu1z8M

      — Jahid Jalal -جاهد جلال (@A_Jahid_Jalal) August 30, 2021

      On zooming in the photo, we can see that the man has raised his hand

      Mohammed Zubair, co-founder of fact-checking site Alt News also found a video that showed the man moving his hands.

      کندهار تازه صورت حال pic.twitter.com/HM2CP2aZHg

      — احمد صاحب (@haji52292547) August 30, 2021

      Afghan reporter states that the man seen in the viral video was trying to hoist a Taliban flag

      Afghan journalist Bilal Sarwary quote tweeted a tweet with the false claim stating that the Afghan pilot flying the helicopter is known to him and stated that the man seen in the viral video is a Taliban fighter who was trying to install a Taliban flag from the air but that it didn't work.

      Afghan pilot flying this is someone I have known over the years. He was trained in the US and UAE, he confirmed to me that he flew the Blackhawk helicopter. Taliban fighter seen here was trying to install Taliban flag from air but it didn't work in the end. https://t.co/wnF8ep1zEl

      — BILAL SARWARY (@bsarwary) August 31, 2021

      Additionally, the BBC reporting on the viral video quoted that several Afghanistan experts, quoting Taliban sources, had told the BBC that the flight was an attempt to fix a flag over a public building using their newly-captured US-built equipment.

      BOOM was not able to independently verified who the helicopter belonged to.

      BOOM has been debunking viral misinformation and disinformation since the Taliban's takeover of Afghanistan. You can view our fact-check articles in the thread below.

      #Thread🚨: Post the takeover of #Kabul city and #Afghanistan by the #Taliban, @boomlive_in has debunked misinformation around the conflict with old and unrelated photos and videos being shared online. (1/n) 👇 #FakeNews #BOOMFactCheck

      — BOOM Live (@boomlive_in) August 17, 2021


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      Claim :   Video shows Taliban hang a person from a US Blackhawk helicopter
      Claimed By :  Republic TV, Zee News, Wion,
      Fact Check :  False
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