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offline Jedy from dublin (Ireland) on 2004-05-14 05:41 [#01187718]
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Funny thing the day before this video came out, I mentioned
to someone that the US needs to show some atrocities
committed by the Iraqis on Americans and then keeping
showing these over and over again. I was pretty sure there
was enough anger amongst the Iraqs that something would
happen, but if it didn't I suggested it would be staged
anyhow.

The objective would be to confuse the sequence of events in
people's minds so that after several weeks the desired
effect would be achieved. [If you don't believe me, try from
memory to remember the sequence of events after 9/11, the
'Anthrax attacks', invasion of Afghanistan & introduction of
the USA Patriot Act]. Thus the confusion would be as to what
came first -the 'new' atrocities or the prison torture. By
replaying one or two scenes endlessly, the corporate media
could plant the idea that many many American soldiers were
being brutally killed, if fact just as many or more as they
were torturing and thus at that point, we would then have
elements from the right-wing voicing their opinion in the
press that the torture was justifed and deserved.

Well I didn't have to wait long. Next thing this gruesome
video appears and so I looked at it. It's pretty disgusting,
but what struck me immediately was that there was very
little blood. I would have expected the place to be
splattered and it struck me as being rather odd. Not only
that, already right-wing commentators have publicly stated
that the Iraqis deserve what they get.


continue....


 

offline Jedy from dublin (Ireland) on 2004-05-14 05:43 [#01187719]
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For an example of statements from such apologists, see:
... at a Senate Armed Services Committee hearing, Republican
Senator James Inhofe was on the counterattack: "As I watch
this outrage -- this outrage everyone seems to have about
the treatment of these prisoners -- I have to say ... I'm
probably not the only one up at this table that is more
outraged by the outrage than we are by the treatment. ...
I'm also outraged by the press and the politicians and the
political agendas that are being served by this. ... I am
also outraged that we have so many humanitarian do-gooders
right now crawling all over these prisons looking for human
rights violations while our troops, our heroes, are fighting
and dying."
From: http://www.commondreams.org/views04/0512-05.htm

And so today, I see the headline:
Berg Decapitation Video Declared A Fraud By Doctor
... who basically raises the same points about the blood.

And another report: "CIA did it to take the heat off the
Pentagon"--NBC reporter
http://disc.server.com/discussion.cgi?disc=149495;article=5
(from 4893;title=APFN)

Here's the text of the first report (from related URL)

Nick Berg decapitation video declared "a fraud" by medical
doctor

The first casualty of war is the truth and this one has been
no exception. La Voz de Aztlan obtained a copy of the video
showing the beheading of American Nick Berg of Philadelphia
and immediately something very odd was readily apparent. Not
only were the purported screams of Nick Berg not in
synchrony with the decapitation but their was also a total
lack of blood spurting out as his jugular and other veins
and arteries were being cut.


continue...


 

offline Jedy from dublin (Ireland) on 2004-05-14 05:44 [#01187721]
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We forwarded the video to Doctor Raul Castro Guevara, a
surgeon and forensic expert in Mexico City for his expert
opinion. He wrote back and commented, "No hay manera que el
individuo en el video estaba vivo y su corazon funcionando
cuando le estaban cortando la cabeza. En estos casos, el
corazon impela sangre con gran presion, y se corta las
arterias del cuello, hay una gran cantidad de sangre que
salpica por todos lados. En mi opinion el video es un
fraude."

Doctor Raul Castro Guevara is saying that there is no way
that the individual in the video was alive and his heart
pumping while his neck was being cut. The doctor adds that
in these cases, while the heart is pumping, cutting a
person's artery in the neck, would cause copious amounts of
blood to spurt all over the immediate environment. He says
that in his opinion the video is a fraud.

If you are able to view the video, please pay close
attention to the five so called Al queda terrorists making
the political statement. Look at their height, weight, skin
color and their mannerisms. Do you think these people are
Arabs or Iraqis?

http://www.aztlan.net/fake_video.htm

More doubters of the beheading video. Berg on right-wing
Enemy list
by Terry Friday, May 14 2004, 12:22am

Found more links which indicate many people find the whole
timing suspicious and who also noticed many odd features
about the video.

See: Bloggers doubt Berg execution video
http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/4FFA61A3-9C33-4597-A
8D9-8079E91F2784.htm

See also: Berg's Father and Firm Were On A Right-Wing
'Enemies' List
http://www.breakfornews.com/NickBergEnemiesList.htm

Summary: The family firm of beheaded American Nick Berg, was
named by a conservative website in a list of 'enemies' of
the Iraq occupation. That could explain his arrest by Iraqi
police --a detention which fatally delayed his planned
return from Iraq and may have led directly to his death.

--------------------------
This is more and more looking like another crude fake
video.
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offline earthleakage from tell the world you're winning on 2004-05-14 05:44 [#01187722]
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can you count to 40?


 

offline Jedy from dublin (Ireland) on 2004-05-14 05:44 [#01187723]
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We forwarded the video to Doctor Raul Castro Guevara, a
surgeon and forensic expert in Mexico City for his expert
opinion. He wrote back and commented, "No hay manera que el
individuo en el video estaba vivo y su corazon funcionando
cuando le estaban cortando la cabeza. En estos casos, el
corazon impela sangre con gran presion, y se corta las
arterias del cuello, hay una gran cantidad de sangre que
salpica por todos lados. En mi opinion el video es un
fraude."

Doctor Raul Castro Guevara is saying that there is no way
that the individual in the video was alive and his heart
pumping while his neck was being cut. The doctor adds that
in these cases, while the heart is pumping, cutting a
person's artery in the neck, would cause copious amounts of
blood to spurt all over the immediate environment. He says
that in his opinion the video is a fraud.

If you are able to view the video, please pay close
attention to the five so called Al queda terrorists making
the political statement. Look at their height, weight, skin
color and their mannerisms. Do you think these people are
Arabs or Iraqis?

http://www.aztlan.net/fake_video.htm

More doubters of the beheading video. Berg on right-wing
Enemy list
by Terry Friday, May 14 2004, 12:22am

Found more links which indicate many people find the whole
timing suspicious and who also noticed many odd features
about the video.

See: Bloggers doubt Berg execution video
http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/4FFA61A3-9C33-4597-A
8D9-8079E91F2784.htm

See also: Berg's Father and Firm Were On A Right-Wing
'Enemies' List
http://www.breakfornews.com/NickBergEnemiesList.htm

Summary: The family firm of beheaded American Nick Berg, was
named by a conservative website in a list of 'enemies' of
the Iraq occupation. That could explain his arrest by Iraqi
police --a detention which fatally delayed his planned
return from Iraq and may have led directly to his death.

--------------------------
This is more and more looking like another crude fake
video.



 

offline Jedy from dublin (Ireland) on 2004-05-14 05:45 [#01187725]
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what's you point?


 

offline Jedy from dublin (Ireland) on 2004-05-14 05:49 [#01187726]
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oh sorry for the double post


 

offline nacmat on 2004-05-14 05:51 [#01187729]
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interesting


 

offline AlbertoBalsalm from Reykjavík (Iceland) on 2004-05-14 05:58 [#01187736]
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you could've posted this in the other thread.


 

offline Jedy from dublin (Ireland) on 2004-05-14 06:24 [#01187756]
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i can never found anything in this board:P


 

offline JAroen from the pineal gland on 2004-05-14 06:29 [#01187763]
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if it is a fake why doesnt the entire towel-wearing
community complain - or at least the alqaida chiefs?


 

offline AlbertoBalsalm from Reykjavík (Iceland) on 2004-05-14 06:31 [#01187767]
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well, since they found his body i think it's genuine


 

offline Jedy from dublin (Ireland) on 2004-05-14 06:36 [#01187778]
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entire towel-wearing
community


i really don't know what to say about this statement

i didn't know racism was taken so lightly in this board


 

offline goDel from ɐpʎǝx (Seychelles) on 2004-05-14 06:37 [#01187783]
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"very little blood" ... some people took kill bill too
seriously


 

offline Jedy from dublin (Ireland) on 2004-05-14 06:42 [#01187794]
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sorry godel but the blood should come out very fast and in
big quantities cos is pumped straight from the heart


 

offline epohs from )C: on 2004-05-14 06:45 [#01187809]
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some people will go as far out of their way as possible to
doubt the word of anyone siding with america. they'll go
equally far out of their way to take as fact anything that
anyone opposing america says.

i wouldn't be completely taken by surprise if this was
faked, but i pretty strongly doubt it. in the higher-res
version you could see a lot of blood.

i'd say if america wanted to stage something, surely they
would've placed some WMD. i think that would've been far
more effective. but, i guess it doesn't really matter
because 75% of the world would think it was staged even if
they were legitimately found.



 

offline goDel from ɐpʎǝx (Seychelles) on 2004-05-14 06:48 [#01187820]
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sorry jedy, but if the heart doesnt work anymore there's no
fountain anymore either


 

offline goDel from ɐpʎǝx (Seychelles) on 2004-05-14 06:49 [#01187825]
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and as epohs said, there actually was a lot of blood visible
in the hi-res version.


 

offline Jedy from dublin (Ireland) on 2004-05-14 06:52 [#01187833]
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so that means that he was killed before this cut his throat

do you have a link to the hi-re version?


 

offline VLetr from London (United Kingdom) on 2004-05-14 06:54 [#01187837]
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true but the heart would still be working. they severed the
arteries before they got to the nerves which carry the
messages from the basal stem in the brain to the heart and
keep it beating.

I think it's plausible that it could have been faked, but
let's not forget it could have been faked by the Iraqis as
well. Maybe he just died wherever they were holding him and
they thought, well, let's pretend we executed him in this
brutal manner, to have maximum impact.

>if it is a fake why doesnt the entire towel-wearing
>community complain - or at least the alqaida chiefs?

KAroen - towel-wearing community? - get the fuck off this
thread

As if the kind of extremists that would commit such an
execution are in any way part of the broader Muslim
community. They may not even be connected to Al Qaeda for
all we know.


 

offline Laserbeak from Netherlands, The on 2004-05-14 06:57 [#01187849]
Points: 2670 Status: Lurker



I think if it was faked by the CIA then surely they would
have done it more convincing with lots of blood squirting
out of the neck...


 

offline epohs from )C: on 2004-05-14 06:58 [#01187852]
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the highres version i saw was on homelandsecurityus.com ,
but they've taken it down because their servers melted.


 

offline goDel from ɐpʎǝx (Seychelles) on 2004-05-14 07:04 [#01187865]
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well, i thought the version perry posted was hi-res enough.
no spraying blood or anything, but there was quite enough on
the floor. i've seen the video only once and can remember
thinking the same (where's all the blood?) until i saw the
amount of blood on the floor increasing quickly.

vletr, you got some good points (perhaps already being made
in the other thread which i havent seen). are you a
med-student?


 

offline VLetr from London (United Kingdom) on 2004-05-14 07:06 [#01187867]
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no, psych/neuro

i'll be a grad entry med student from september tho!


 

offline Jedy from dublin (Ireland) on 2004-05-14 07:07 [#01187869]
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did the blood squirted?

cos it should

i have a friend that cutted his vein on the wrist by
accident and his blood was squirting link in a movie so if
you actually cut the Carotid artery


 

offline Jarworski from The Grove (United Kingdom) on 2004-05-14 07:09 [#01187874]
Points: 10836 Status: Lurker



HAHAHA


 

offline goDel from ɐpʎǝx (Seychelles) on 2004-05-14 07:10 [#01187875]
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dunno
should/could it be visible from the direction it was shot?


 

offline Jedy from dublin (Ireland) on 2004-05-14 07:11 [#01187880]
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yes it should

Jarworski what's so funny


 

offline VLetr from London (United Kingdom) on 2004-05-14 07:12 [#01187881]
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yeah it should have.

Personally I think it unlikely the CIA would have faked it,
cos they would have done a better job making it look real.
They've instigated enough bloodshed for real to know what it
looks like.

If it is a fake, I think it was probably done by his
captors.


 

offline Jedy from dublin (Ireland) on 2004-05-14 07:15 [#01187887]
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i'm not saying the body is a dummy i'm saying he was dead
before and then why should they fake the decapitation of an
innocent guy? that doesn't benefit the iraquis at all


 

offline VLetr from London (United Kingdom) on 2004-05-14 07:19 [#01187905]
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Well actions like this are never gonna benefit the iraqis,
but it's not like all the 30 million people in Iraq had a
big meeting and decided this was what should be done. We're
talking extremist fringe elements here (as I'm sure you
appreciate, even if JAroen doesn't).

Well they'd already kidnapped him. Maybe they intended to
make an execution video but then he just died, from
exhaustion or torture wounds or something, and they had to
improvise, lest they lose face amongst their extremist
peers.



 

offline Jedy from dublin (Ireland) on 2004-05-14 07:31 [#01187952]
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i really don't understand or get the point of a faked video
done by the iraqis

if is real i could still believe that was them

i'm sure they have other people in their prisions so why get
stuck witha dead body ?


 

offline VLetr from London (United Kingdom) on 2004-05-14 07:41 [#01187994]
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They don't have prisons, they're outlaw renegades! The
comparison with the American torture victims is entirely
fallacious, because the American torture was perpetrated as
part of a systemised and supposedly accountable
organisation, i.e. the US Army.

The people who supposedly performed the execution kidnapped
an American contractor. I'm sure those foreign contractors
are pretty damn jumpy at the moment, things being as they
are, so I doubt they're much in abundance. An american
captive is quite a prize.

They tried to exchange the captive with some prisoners in
the American jail at the heart of the torture scandal and
the Americans declined. Why would the CIA add that to the
video? Just makes it harsher on the family.

I reckon something blatantly went wrong, he died in
captivity or one of the kidnappers went crazy when the
others weren't there and shot him without taping it or
something.



 

offline Jedy from dublin (Ireland) on 2004-05-14 07:46 [#01188011]
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i don't know
the only thing is that all this shit is reinforcing my hate
to the american goverment


 

offline VLetr from London (United Kingdom) on 2004-05-14 07:54 [#01188025]
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Don't think my opinion of the american gov't could really
get much lower to be honest, short of Bush and his cabinet
all flying to Iraq and riding around Baghdad on horses,
wearing cowboy gear and sheriffs hats, shootin' up some
Iiiiiraqis.


 

offline goDel from ɐpʎǝx (Seychelles) on 2004-05-14 08:31 [#01188100]
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they -bush&co- should actually do that. it would allow the
iraqi people to deal with their own foe...and everyone
else's foe


 

offline VLetr from London (United Kingdom) on 2004-05-14 08:43 [#01188131]
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lord knows he's had enough practice on his ranch in Texas.
200 days worth in 2003, apparently.


 

offline roygbivcore from Joyrex.com, of course! on 2004-05-14 08:48 [#01188147]
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i don't have time to read this shit

i've got a business to run


 

offline VLetr from London (United Kingdom) on 2004-05-14 08:53 [#01188164]
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LOL
how's the weather today in foreskin>appendix?


 

offline roygbivcore from Joyrex.com, of course! on 2004-05-14 09:02 [#01188194]
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MOIST


 

offline clint from Silencio... (United Kingdom) on 2004-05-14 11:59 [#01188409]
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Hmm this is an interesting thread... I like conspiracy
theories. But my instinct would say that it is unfortunately
genuine. I can't remember exactly - I deleted the vid after
1 viewing - but I thought the camera didn't cut at all from
when he was alive and moving to when his head was held up?
Hmm.

I also noticed the lack of blood... it wasn't exactly kill
bill stuff. But I fail to see how this could have been faked
otherwise.


 

offline Cheffe1979 from fuck (Austria) on 2004-05-14 13:05 [#01188462]
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there was a lake of blood on the floor, it appears only
black in the low res version


 

offline epohs from )C: on 2004-05-14 13:11 [#01188468]
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i don't think it was fake. i just think he was scared
shitless and probably sitting still to try and not upset his
captors. he squirms around quite a bit once they grab him,
but he is handcuffed and being held by two men and a belt
around his neck. you could see his body go limp when they
cut sufficiently through his neck.


 

offline bogala from NYC (United States) on 2004-05-14 13:24 [#01188488]
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I hear they faked the twin towers collapsing, too. Sub
contracted out from hollywood. Boy, those guys will do
anything to get oil!


 

offline bogala from NYC (United States) on 2004-05-14 13:27 [#01188490]
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Why is it hard to believe that it could be a reaction to the
treatment of the Iraqi prisoners? That's some cause and
effect.


 

offline mappatazee from ¨y¨z¨| (Burkina Faso) on 2004-05-14 13:53 [#01188548]
Points: 14294 Status: Lurker



Already been addressed

They found his headless body anyways, this argument is
stupid.


 

offline godataloss from Cleveland (United States) on 2004-05-14 14:00 [#01188553]
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I didnt think it was faked until the CIA comes out and says
the maked Guy was Mossoui from Alqueada (think I could spell
it as often as its been in the papers). I suppose they
could just be using the event to their own advantage, but if
it is indeed true, its the first evidence of Alqueada
having anything to do with Iraq.


 

offline brokephones from Londontario on 2004-05-14 14:01 [#01188555]
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Mossoui is not affiliated with the 'queada.


 

offline Anus_Presley on 2004-05-14 14:04 [#01188559]
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therre is not a lack of blood in 'rreal life' when a perrson
has theirr head cut off, therre is a ton of blood.


 

offline brokephones from Londontario on 2004-05-14 14:06 [#01188564]
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Anyone who watches samurai movies will tell you that.

Slash!
*dramatic pause and pose*
.....
SPLURRRRRRRRT!


 


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