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ISIS May Not Have Beheaded James Foley Oncamera, Despite What Video Shows: by Nobody: 12:24pm On Aug 27, 2014 |
Video showing a suspected British jihadist beheading an American journalist in Syria may have been staged, according to forensic analysis. An international forensic science group — which often works for British police services — suggested the footage likely does not show James Foley’s actual killing at the hands of a masked man from the Islamic State of Iraq and Al-Sham. The Times of London commissioned the company to analyze the video. After making enhancements, it found no evidence of blood even when the masked man draws the knife across Mr. Foley’s neck six times. There was also no incision visible on his neck, analysts said. The sounds Foley apparently makes aren’t consistent with “what may be expected,” the report says. But the analysis did not dispute that the beheading took place at some point. “I think it has been staged,” one analyst told the Times. “My feeling is that the execution may have happened after the camera was stopped.” The video was shot with two cameras, the analysis found. A “blip” during Mr. Foley’s statement near the start of the video suggests that he might have needed to repeat a line. The company referred to in the Times report was anonymous and did not reach a “definitive answer.” Meanwhile, Eliot Higgins, a Leicester-based video and photo analyst who specializes in Syria, has methodically analyzed the five- minute video in an attempt to pinpoint where it happened. He has concluded that Mr. Foley was most likely killed in a spot in the hills south of the Syrian city of Raqqa, whose precise coordinates he has calculated. If correct, his finding could provide a crucial clue in the search for the hooded jihadi with a British accent who appeared to be the murderer in the video. A former hostage identified the masked man as “John,” who leads a band of British jihadists dubbed “The Beatles.” Locating the site of the murder would make it easier to link jihadists known to be operating in the area with his death, by comparing it with other US and British intelligence data. To work out the location, Mr. Higgins first blacked out the figures in the footage to analyze the landscape behind them. It is a hilly, featureless terrain, but in the distance it is possible to make out a green plain. Mr. Higgins compared this with a satellite image of Raqqa in northern Syria – the ISIS fighters’ “capital” — where the city can be seen surrounded by green plains. Having analyzed all areas under ISIS control, he found no other locations that fitted the geography. Mr. Higgins, who uses the pseudonym Brown Moses online, then looked at the position of the shadows, which he says suggests the video was filmed in a morning, the camera pointing northwards. This led him to examine the hills to the south of Raqqa, and noted an area of raised ground. He then noted the visible edge of a track that leads to a break in the rocks — both key features. Focusing on the tracks, he compared the landscape with satellite images of the hills. He identified a spot where a track appeared to enter the area, and on the satellite map identified a rock outcrop that would partly obscure the entry point, as one does in the video. He compared the configurations of trees in the video with the satellite image and pinpointed the likeliest location of Mr. Foley’s murder — an isolated spot with the coordinates 35.88219, 39.03617. www.nationalpost.com/m/wp/blog.html?b=news.nationalpost.com/2014/08/25/isis-may-not-have-beheaded-james-foley-on-camera-despite-what-video-shows-report
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Re: ISIS May Not Have Beheaded James Foley Oncamera, Despite What Video Shows: by desirewhet(m): 12:53pm On Aug 27, 2014 |
Wow, c men dat cn decode, analyze, pinpoint, depicts, suggest,even predicts jst frm a simple video dat was recorded!! #proudtobeanengineer |
Re: ISIS May Not Have Beheaded James Foley Oncamera, Despite What Video Shows: by Nobody: 11:19am On Aug 28, 2014 |
lol good |
Re: ISIS May Not Have Beheaded James Foley Oncamera, Despite What Video Shows: by Crixina(f): 4:06pm On Sep 04, 2014 |
See technology,when will naija get here? |
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