In the longer video, the man waves his hands and moves his legs as he is lowered to the top of a building. A closer look at the footage shows the man appears to be strapped into a harness, not hanging from a noose.
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However, the video does not show a public execution – another angle of the incident shows the man is alive. Several mediaand fact-checking organizationshave reported the clip shows a Taliban fighter trying to hoist a flag on a building in the city of Kandahar.
The clip originated from Tabasum Radio, whose name is written across the video. The Afghan radio station posted the video Aug. 30 on Telegram, an encrypted messaging platform.
"One of the Taliban government's bodyguards tried to tie the flag to the 100-meter-high antenna by helicopter but was unable to do so," the station wrote in an emailed statement to USA TODAY.
Sadiqullah Afghan, head of the radio station, gave a similar account to Fact Crescendo, another Indian fact-checking organization. He told the outlet he shot the video Aug. 30 on his phone.
"Afghan pilot flying this is someone I have known over the years," Sarwary wrote on Twitter. "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."
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Shortly before it posted the video, Tabasum Radio posted another image of a helicopter at the Kandahar governor's office. Later that day, the radio station posted again, saying the "provincial administration has called on the people to hoist flags on shops and businesses in the city in protest of the withdrawal of US and international forces," according to Google Translate.
Tabasum Radio, Aug. 31, Email exchange with USA TODAY
In a video and screenshots seen by millions of people in just over a day, a helicopter is seen trailing a rope with a blurry figure attached.
Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid, at center holding shawl, arrives accompanied by officials to address a media conference at the airport in Kabul on Aug. 31, 2021. The Taliban joyously fired guns into the air and offered words of reconciliation as they celebrated defeating the United States and returning to power after two decades of war that devastated Afghanistan.
In an email to USA TODAY, Tabasum Radio confirmed the video showed someone trying to hoist a flag.
Contributing: Miriam Fauzia
The clip, originally tweeted by a counterterrorism expert who said he wasn't sure what it depicted, racked up more than 2.6 million views in just over a one day. From there, the claim that the Taliban used a U.S.-supplied helicopter to hang someone spread across social media.
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Based on our research, we rate FALSE the claim that a video shows the Taliban hanging someone from a helicopter. Another angle of the incident shows the man in the video was alive. Multiple news outlets and fact-checking organizations, as well as Afghan media outlets, have reported the man was a Taliban fighter trying to hoist a flag on a building in Kandahar. A local radio station that recorded video of the incident confirmed the footage shows a man trying to hang a flag, not being hanged.
Alt News, an independent fact-checking organization in India, reported the man is a Taliban fighter. According to multiple Afghan news outlets with reporters on the ground, he was trying to hoist a flag on the governor's office in Kandahar.
"A helicopter has been spotted at the Kandahar governor's office with one person hanging, officials have not yet commented," the radio station wrote in Pashto, according to Google Translate.
The full 12-second clip shows a helicopter in Afghanistan hovering over buildings. Then, the video zooms in to show what appears to be a person hanging from the helicopter by a rope.
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