Beheading OK – it was only a Yank!
This item from News.com talks of a video released today on an Islamic militant website . It appeared to show US businessman Nick Berg being beheaded.
That’s BEHEADED. Not stripped naked and photographed, not threatened by dogs, not leashed naked like a dog, not even photographed with a pretty westerner laughing and pointing at your genitals – but beheaded.
Pictured: Berg’s family on hearing of his death.
Compare this with the pictures of Arabs dancing in the streets on Sept 11.
Update: I was wrong. The Age/SMH has carried the story here
After reading a statement, the men were seen pulling the man to his side and putting a large knife to his neck. A scream sounded as the men cut his head off, shouting “Allahu Akbar!” – “God is great.” They then held the head out before the camera.Don’t bother looking up any headlines of main stream media. Not a mention. If Private John Doe, the most insignificant US soldier in Iraq had even muttered the word ..prisoner beheaded in his sleep there would be questions in the House. Bush would be called upon to fall on his sword, Bob Brown would be calling for a Senate Inquiry. and the Arab world would be enraged. Sure, it could be a set up but it’s pretty hard to fake slicing a knife through a man’s neck. Even if the IT disadvantaged Arabs had managed to fake it can you imagine the media feeding frenzy if CNN showed a video of US soldiers supposedly decapitating an Iraqi. Fake or not it seems to me a case of I see your torture and raise you a beheading Puts it all in perspective. Doesn’t it?
Pictured: Berg’s family on hearing of his death.
Compare this with the pictures of Arabs dancing in the streets on Sept 11.
Update: I was wrong. The Age/SMH has carried the story here
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It took ’em a while though. Also…bugger all mention of the goat-rooting, rag-heads vandalising Light Horse graves in Gaza City, in response to that fat, lying, flatulent twat, Piers Morgan and co. publishing fake photos of squaddies torturing Iraqis.
If you take a look at that video again with a more critical eye you will see some very perplexing things. For example, after the “reader” grabs “Nick” by the hair and pulls him down, there is some very jerky camera motion and the timestamp on the images jumps ahead eleven hours. Then during the closeups of the cutting scene, there are other jump edits, lost seconds, at least eight seconds lost after some blurring like loss of focus. Then, the biggest and most obvious continuity blunder, Reader is wearing a black ski mask and cutting at the neck. We see him standing next to White Scarf as he makes the final cut, then as he stands there is another jump cut and we see White Scarf holding both head and knife.
Please examine this video, I know it is repugnant but a critical analysis reveals these things I have just identified. Here is a summary:
mark – timestamp
4:36 – 2:44:10 (Reader taking down)
4:38 – 13:45:48 (Reader cutting closeup)
4:43 – 13:45:52 (blurring – eight seconds after lost)
4:44 – 13:46:00 (Reader cutting – White Scarf holding)
5:16 – 13:46:32 (head, knife, Reader final cut – fifteen seconds after lost)
5:18 – 13:47:47 (head, knife, pan up to White Scarf not Reader)
And I suppose the body is made of plastic. FU! Plapuss
Plautus. Fine. Lack of continuity but what is your take on it?
Kev, The parents are anti-GW2 and Democrats so they are hardly going to be part of a conspiracy that helps Bush. If I gather enough strength I will watch the clip but when is the limit reached to be civil to conspiracy loons?. This link has a snapshot of them carrying Berg`s Head.
http://right-thinking.com/comments.php?id=P4775_0_1_0
Note that the “head” there has not a drop of blood on it. Have you ever seen a man decapitated with a knife? Have you heard of arterial spray? I have no idea if those masked men are wrestling with a corpse or a mannequin but clearly they are not wrestling with a live person. How do you explain the obvious overdubbing of the sound track, complete with horrific screaming that starts before the cutting starts, before Reader even pulls the knife you hear the screaming start. I know it’s horrible to watch, but it’s even more horrific that people would FAKE this kind of thing, and fake it so POORLY.
By the way, the captured image you posted the link to, Gary, is right at one of the continuity breaks, where they appear to have had White Scarf switch places with Reader just as the head is lifted, they even give the knife to White Scarf so he can hold it in the same hand.
What’s my take? The video is a fake.
I will not watch the video.
However, I did catch the first reports – with sequential stills – at Drudge. My first thought was that it looked unreal.
Not a judgment, mind you, you just an immediate impression.
I watched the video, I am in shock. It is certainly not fake. it really to perspectice the rot about some U.S. soldoeirs’ treatment of iraqi prisoners – given that thos eprisoners happen to be fEDAYEEN AND OTHER SCUMBAGS.
aS FOR THE MURDERERS OF BERG STICK OF GELAGNITE RAMMED DOWN THEIR UGLY THROATS, WITH A LONG SLOW BURNING FUSE WOULD NOT BE INAPPROPRIATE.
aND fUCK MUSLIMS.
Oy “D” I understand your anger but some respect for Kev`s site please,mate.
Apologies, wrote that shortly after having watched it, and any pretence it is faked is roping matter. I can say, I nearly stuck to my incliniation not to view it, that is wise, too shocking, the cruelty, the savagery .. and this is the sort of horrors Israelis repeatedly witness in their streets, , what the B5ritish endured from the IRA led by the likes of that cold blooded murderer Gerry Admas.
Can’t say anymore, just too overwhelmed by it.
Plautus Satire,
Go get fucked you fucking raghead buttfucker
Further analysis of this video has revealed that the obviously overdubbed soundtrack features unwarranted screams that begin just before the editing as indicated by the jumping timestamps on the images. Obviously the intention was for the screams to distract and to horrify and draw attention away from the obvious editing and the obvious continuity flaws I outlined above.
Now we have the CIA pumping the story into every local news outlet that will listen that Abu Mussab al-Zarqawi is responsible for Nick Berg’s death. Islamic militant groups state that Abu Mussab al-Zarqawi is dead, and has been for many months. And the only “evidence” that he is alive is the claim that he called his mother, which prompted wiretaps which revealed no more such hypothetical calls.
We also have the absence of Nick Berg’s company as a registered business in Pennsylvania, and just one small radio station claiming they wanted Nick to build a tower on some swampland for them.
We also have the fact that Nick Berg was carrying around a basket of currency, including Iranain currency and Jordanian.
We also have the fact that the FBI was investigating Berg, because he was connected to a “911 terrorist” via his college email address. And he was also under investigation and in custody in Iraq for carrying around electronic communications equipment, and a handy excuse for climbing very tall towers (great views from up there I gather, and what better way to eavesdrop than at the source of the broadcasts).
This Nick Berg’s story is looking fishier and fishier every day. I have to say, as horrified as I was initially, I am now even more horrified at the prospect that this entire pile of hogwash was put together so that a suspected Mossad spy could be “vanished,” so the Feds will stop looking for him. I haven’t seen the Pearl beheading, but if it’s anything like this mess, it’s probably a fake as well. Pearl and Berg were probably both working for the Mossad and had used up their usefulness and have been essentially taken off active duty. There’s no telling if they’re alive or dead or what they are doing now or where they are.
The video has been sharply abbreviated at the above site, I can personally get people copies if they want to email me I can arrange to get copies to people. If I get enough requests I could even run a dedicated webserver to serve just that file.