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The manipulated beheading video your talking about is of Daniel Pearl not Nick Berg. When slitting his throat a technical error occured, causing them to not capture it on film. After fixing the problem they filmed someone cutting his head off, of course he was already dead by then. The man responsible for Pearl's kidnapping/murder is Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, chief of military operations for al Qaeda at the time, not Zarqawi
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No it isn't - it's the Nick Berg footage I am talking about.
Since you brought it up, the Pearl and other murders also show signs of manipulation.
This leads to the logical conclusion that none of these death films are authentic. Not one of them is a straightforward single take, and the argument that each video has a legitimate reason to be broken up at a significant point but is still genuine does not stand up.
In the case of the Berg footage, there is a leap forward of several hours in the video clock from 'attack' to 'decapitation', a deliberately awkward zoom/refocus allowing the disguised editing of the material (i.e. body swapping and/or special effects) and of course the medical logic that a living head could not be swiftly sawn off with such a small knife and produce so little blood.
Interestingly, some who shout that the victims should be 'left to rest in peace' and try to shame anyone for investigating the videos for themselves remain convinced the footage is all genuine - that it just has to be, that the blatantly obvious tampering is not relevant and can be explained away... as if the horror of imagining what might have happened to these people means there can be no question of complicating things any further, even faced with intriguing unanswered questions.
So far as the closing of the other thread goes, it seems very strange to do this because something offensive
might be posted (I wouldn't condone a link to any of the videos on this site- do your homework if you want to see), and that the subject has brought out the worst in certain members in the past.