Monday, May 08, 2006

Update on Atwar Bahjat Beheading Video

The video reported to be of Atwar Bahjat's beheading is a hoax.

From The Jawa Report:

A gruesome beheading video delivered to the Sunday Times purporting to be of slain journalist Atwar Bahjat is a hoax. On Sunday, May 7th, the Times reported that they had received a low-quality video of Atwar Bahjat being slowly beheaded. That video is now being circulated on the internet as the "Atwar Bahjat" beheading video.

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The Jawa Report can reveal that the Times and Halal Jabar, the author of the article, are victims of a hoax. The video actually shows the gruesome murder of a Nepalese man by the Army of Ansar al-Sunna in Iraq from August of 2004.



Much more information and background can be found here.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Well I know it has been desribed as a 'hoax', however the way in which it was described in The Sunday Times is an exact blow by blow account of this horrific execution. The only problem is that it wasn't Atwar Bahjats. However there's some poor fuckers who may been the familty of friend of this Nepalese man.

The brutality of Islamism is self-evident.