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A masked jihadist may not have actually beheaded American journalist James Foley in the barbaric video released by Islamic terrorists last week, a forensics expert said.
Though there was no doubt that Foley was beheaded, it was possible the jihadists killed Foley off camera and then staged to video to make it look like an execution, an expert told the Times of London.
"I think it has been staged," the visual forensics expert, who was not identified, told The Times after scrutinizing the four-minute, 40-second film.
"My feeling is that the execution may have happened after the camera was stopped."
The analyst pointed to several pieces of evidence that suggested the video was a chilling bit of propaganda, but not an actual decapitation.
First, although the masked jihadist can be seen repeatedly drawing the knife across the 40-year-old war reporter's neck, no actual incisions were visible, the analyst said.
Similarly, there didn't appear to be any blood spilling from Foley's throat, and the sounds he made at the moment of his death didn't appear sound right.
The analyst also found a slight blip in the scripted remarks Foley made in the video, suggesting he may have had to repeat a line, which was spliced into the final version, The Times reported.
In the video, as the beheading occurs, the screen suddenly fades to black.
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/james-foley-killed-off-camera-expert-article-1.1915845
http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/news/uk/article4186089.ece
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