Ghulam Nabi was a Pakistani militant involved with the

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and had fought against the pro-American

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during the US-led

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. A video obtained by the

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on 20 April 2007 shows a young boy, looking to be around 12 years of age, beheading a man identified as Nabi. According to the AP report, "A continuous 2½-minute shot then shows the victim lying on his side on a patch of rubble-strewn ground. A man holds Nabi by his beard while the boy, wearing a camouflage military jacket and oversized white sneakers, cuts into the throat. Other men and boys call out "Allahu akbar!" — "God is great!" — as blood spurts from the wound. The film, overlain with

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, then shows the boy hacking and slashing at the man's neck until the head is severed." The beheading was condemned and called a "new low" by Sam Zarifi of

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, and also condemned by the

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''Video in Pakistan shows youngster beheading man for alleged betrayal of Taliban leader''
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