Apparantly, it is. And the AP fell for it. HAA-HA!!!!
The AP fell for it, because they wanted too. AP is a bunch of "Chicken littles".
You are right.
American fakes own decapitation in tape
BREAKING NEWS
The Associated Press
Updated: 8:16 a.m. ET Aug. 7, 2004SAN FRANCISCO - A video aired Saturday that purportedly showed an American being decapitated was a hoax. The man, reached by The Associated Press in San Francisco, said he videotaped the staged beheading at his friend’s house using fake blood.
On the tape, Benjamin Vanderford, 22, sat on a chair in a dark room, his hands behind his back, trembling and rocking back and forth. The tape showed a hand with a knife cutting at the motionless man’s neck, but did not show any militants.
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