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James Foley Beheading Likely Fake, Staged Experts Say
News.com.au ^ | August 25, 2014 | News.com.au

Posted on 08/24/2014 7:28:24 PM PDT by VitacoreVision

DRUDGE REPORT:

PAPER: Foley video with Briton was staged, experts say...

London hip-hop artist Abdel-Majed Abdel Bary key suspect in hunt for killer of American journalist James Foley

News.com.au
August 25, 2014

http://www.news.com.au/world/london-hiphop-artist-abdelmajed-abdel-bary-key-suspect-in-hunt-for-killer-of-american-journalist-james-foley/story-fndir2ev-1227034541900

THE beheading of American journalist, James Foley, at the hands of ISIS militants shocked the world but forensic experts have revealed the video was probably staged, with the murder happening off camera.

The UK Times reported that an international forensic science company, which has worked for police forces across Britain, said there is no question Foley was beheaded but that camera trickery and post-production techniques look to have been used.

“I think it has been staged,” said one expert in visual forensics, after he was commissioned by The UK Times to examine the footage.

“My feeling is that the execution may have happened after the camera was stopped.”

Aymenn al-Tamimi, a fellow at the Middle East Forum think-tank, said over the years ISIS militants have improved the production quality of their videos.

The analysis by experts has highlighted a number of inconsistencies that could suggest that the beheading of Foley, which was seen on the video, was not his actual death.
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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: antiwardotcom; beheading; isis; jamesfoley; pitchforkpat; putinsbuttboys; randsconcerntrolls; retarded
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To: Dallas59

Looks pretty real to me.


21 posted on 08/24/2014 7:56:58 PM PDT by POWERSBOOTHEFAN (IT'S GREAT TO BE STRAIGHT!)
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To: terycarl

Oops... Can I still call the ones right behind them “the senior’s tees”?


22 posted on 08/24/2014 7:57:39 PM PDT by kjam22 (my music video "If My People" at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=74b20RjILy4)
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To: Bullish

“Experts”. Pfft!


23 posted on 08/24/2014 7:58:35 PM PDT by BunnySlippers (I LOVE BULL MARKETS . . .)
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To: kjam22

He is not counting all his strokes.


24 posted on 08/24/2014 7:58:50 PM PDT by 353FMG
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To: VitacoreVision

I refuse to watch it, ever since Nick Bergs beheading I have had little stomach for Islam.


25 posted on 08/24/2014 8:01:40 PM PDT by aft_lizard
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To: POWERSBOOTHEFAN

Yep. Islamic barbarianism is real. I can show hundreds of similar videos scattered all over the net. American leftists and the Media have suppressed this year after year... and Now when the Islamic monsters have started to kill their own does it become some kind of disaster. Even the Saudis, Iran and other Islamic countries are feeling fear....This is not supposed to happen to them! Only to non believers and western countries!


26 posted on 08/24/2014 8:02:49 PM PDT by Dallas59
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To: aft_lizard

I’m increasingly in the “nuke em’ and let God sort em’ out” crowd.


27 posted on 08/24/2014 8:03:29 PM PDT by kjam22 (my music video "If My People" at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=74b20RjILy4)
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To: VitacoreVision

I believe this when they prove that Neil Armstrong’s step on the Moon was staged.


28 posted on 08/24/2014 8:22:19 PM PDT by jonrick46 (The opium of Communists: other people's money.)
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To: jocon307

We need to start feeding their corpses to pigs.

We might feed them alive to pigs, but that would not be civilized, so we kill them first then let the pigs have at it.

I’m quite, quite serious.

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The hogs appreciate a single pass through the wood chipper to reduce stringiness .......


29 posted on 08/24/2014 8:26:36 PM PDT by S.O.S121.500 (Had ENOUGH Yet ? ........................ Enforce the Bill of Rights ......... It's the LAW !!!)
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To: jocon307

I suggest just capturing as many as can be, alive, and simply tying them up and putting them in a pen with a number of hogs. The hogs know what to do...


30 posted on 08/24/2014 8:30:10 PM PDT by Quickgun (I got here kicking,screaming and covered in someone else's blood. I can go out that way if I have to)
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To: Quickgun

Then make sure none of those hogs are consumed for some time,to avoid “mad muslim disease”.....


31 posted on 08/24/2014 8:33:52 PM PDT by Quickgun (I got here kicking,screaming and covered in someone else's blood. I can go out that way if I have to)
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To: jocon307

I like good ol’ Saddam’s feet first into the wood chipper myself. These goat humpers seem to like sawing some helpless guys’s neck, so let’s see how it feels to them to be sawed up!


32 posted on 08/24/2014 8:38:22 PM PDT by doorgunner69
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To: Dallas59

I saw the first part of it in which the knife was against his neck. Then it quickly cut to the graphic photo, so the entire decapitation wasn’t seen.

I still say it was real even though the entire beheading wasn’t shown. I don’t see how that could have been staged.


33 posted on 08/24/2014 8:42:27 PM PDT by POWERSBOOTHEFAN (IT'S GREAT TO BE STRAIGHT!)
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To: VitacoreVision

Didn’t see the beheading so can’t comment on that but the phrasing in the letter doesn’t sound American. Maybe the Danish guy didn’t memorize it word for word or Foley was trying to get a secret message out.


34 posted on 08/24/2014 8:54:43 PM PDT by bgill
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To: BeadCounter

I didn’t watch it either because I got better things to do, but a comment on youtube was very informative:
1) Foley showed no sign of any expected negative emotion: fear, apprehension, nervousness, regret, sadness, panic, etc. as he was prepared for execution

2) He did not flinch when the knife was pressed against his neck. How is that possible without the certain knowledge that nothing was going to happen??

3) The video ended prematurely - before his head was decapitated. Why? Because they didn’t want to offend our sensibilities? C’mon. And anyway, that never stopped the terrorists before.


35 posted on 08/24/2014 9:06:48 PM PDT by expat1000 ("If you're explaining, you're losing." Ronald Reagan)
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To: expat1000

I think Foley is still alive. He was an Islamist symp. According to sources, he last statement was an anti US screed. If he knew he was going to dive anyway, why the hate speech? Or, he is dead but didn’t think his friends were actually going to kill him - that’s why he’s so calm before the “execution”


36 posted on 08/24/2014 9:40:35 PM PDT by atc23 (The Confederacy was the single greatest conservative resistance to federal authority ever)
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To: VitacoreVision

I’m sure it was very important to Foley that people know exactly when he was beheaded, at the time of the video or not.

Dead is dead.

And Jim, he’s dead.

Jihadists did it. End of interest for me. Just kill the bastards and be done with it.


37 posted on 08/24/2014 9:47:07 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (We'll know when he's really hit bottom. They'll start referring to him as White.)
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To: DoughtyOne

More News Articles...

Foley murder video ‘may have been staged’
Analysts believe the British jihadi in the video may not have been James Foley’s killer, although it is accepted that the journalist was murdered
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/journalists/bill-gardner/11054488/Foley-murder-video-may-have-been-staged.html

Report: Foley Execution Video May Have Been Staged
http://dailycaller.com/2014/08/24/report-foley-execution-video-may-have-been-staged/

Paper: Foley’s video beheading staged
http://www.wnd.com/2014/08/paper-foleys-video-beheading-staged/?cat_orig=world

James Foley Beheading Video Has Play-Acting Portions – Video Experts Say
http://au.ibtimes.com/articles/563629/20140822/james-foley-beheading-video.htm


38 posted on 08/24/2014 9:59:58 PM PDT by VitacoreVision
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To: VitacoreVision

Thank you for the links. I’m pretty sure you were providing it to the readers of the thread, and I appreciate the service.


39 posted on 08/24/2014 10:03:54 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (We'll know when he's really hit bottom. They'll start referring to him as White.)
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To: atc23
Or, he is dead but didn’t think his friends were actually going to kill him - that’s why he’s so calm before the “execution”

Yeah, I had the same thought. Why it would have gone down that way I don't know, but there's a lot of possibilities. These people are not exactly rational.

40 posted on 08/24/2014 10:07:31 PM PDT by expat1000 ("If you're explaining, you're losing." Ronald Reagan)
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