Another reason to oppose Al Qaeda

Al Qaeda's latest beheading video shows a boy "barely 12" as the executioner, according to the Associated Press, which obtained a copy of the video in Peshawar, Pakistan.

According to the AP, the video records the "grisly death of Ghulam Nabi, a Pakistani militant accused of betraying a top Taliban official who was killed in a December airstrike."

"He is an American spy. Those who do this kind of thing will get this kind of fate," the boy can be heard saying.

Even human rights monitors are expressing outrage:

Sam Zarifi, Asia research director for Human Rights Watch, said the use of a child to commit such an act constituted a war crime and was a "new low" in the conflict in Afghanistan.

He noted the Taliban had teenage combatants but they were not recruited on a large scale because of the availability of adult fighters. He said he had seen children in the background of some jihadist videos but none in which they were directly involved in violence.

"I don't know why they would do this," Zarifi said. "The Taliban have to some extent tried to play to the public in Afghanistan and have not engaged in the complete sowing of mayhem that we have seen in Iraq. But this kind of act is really egregious. It's off the charts."