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Old 06-11-2006, 07:11 AM
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The point is the videos are not the authentic acts of decapitation they are widely perceived to be. If this is put to you, you can either agree, say 'so what?' or offer your own explaination of why the films have been cut.

Nick Berg, Daniel Pearl, Eugene Armstrong and Jack Hensley are enough examples. They are all justifiably open to speculation since each of these films has been edited to allow plenty of opportunity to apply deception.

The militants learned enough from the Berg production to make sure their on-screen clock was turned off in future, but that did not deter their manipulation of sound (that any screams and protests heard must irrefutably be coming from the victims is hardly the case) nor persistence of jarring zooms and refocus utilised in every single one of these films between the points of attack and decapitation. There is no logical reason for a filmmaker to want to stop the action and make a cut at the most significant moment of the entire event other than for fabrication purposes.

There are live hostages in the scenes, there are dead bodies and there are severed heads. Because you may have sawn off a deer's head with a hunting knife does not override the factors I have laid out above.

The abductors and killers want to appear as ruthless and efficient as they possibly can - that is their motive, that is their propoganda.
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