Alleged Execution Caught on Tape

Video showing Pakistani soldiers allegedly executing a group of six blindfolded and bound individuals has surfaced on the internet:

Those being executed are apparently Pakistani insurgents, and jihadists have been using the video as propaganda.

That video has not been authenticated, and according to the New York Times the Pakistani military claims it was faked by militants.

But American officials who the Times showed the video to say the video appears real. Including one who remarked, “There are things you can fake, and things you can’t fake. You can’t fake this.”

The Times reports that CIA director Leon E. Panetta, already in Pakistan on a previously scheduled trip, was expected to raise the issue with Pakistani officials.