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The video, which was somewhat blurry, showed a man dangling from a rope attached to a helicopter. The "comedian" inaccurately captioned the video: "Taliban hanging someone from a helicopter in Kandahar. Cruz added his own assertion above the comedian's tweet, tweeting : "This horrifying image encapsulates Joe Biden's Afghanistan catastrophe: The Taliban hanging a man from an American Blackhawk helicopter.

Some popular Twitter accounts went so far as to make declarations about the identity of the person supposedly being executed. Indian journalist Sudhir Chaudhary, who has more than 6 million Twitter followers, wrote , "Taliban hang a person, presumed to be an American interpreter, from a U.

Blackhawk helicopter. Facts First : Nobody was executed on the Kandahar helicopter flight depicted in the viral videos. Other footage shows that the man dangling from the helicopter was wearing a harness around his body, not a noose around his neck, and that he was moving freely -- even appearing to wave.

Read More. CNN could not immediately confirm what exactly the man in the harness was doing. The image in the Instagram post suggests the Anchorage Daily News reported the story, but the purported author and two editors from the newspaper have debunked the claim. Thank you for supporting our journalism. You can subscribe to our print edition, ad-free app or electronic newspaper replica here. Facebook Twitter Email. Fact check: Headline about man arrested for Minecraft military bases is altered.

What appears to be a zoomed in version of a viral video of a man dangling from a helicopter in Afghanistan shows him moving and waving. This closer-up video, along with other photos that show a similar helicopter and a similar harness, dispel the popular narrative circulating online that the scene shows a man hanged by the Taliban. The American President will never be forgiven for this!!

A tweet with 2. Joe Biden is responsible. Reuters was not definitively able to source the video.