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| Blood And Production Value: Islamic State’s Pricey Video |
| 2014-12-10 |
| [IsraelTimes] Analysts say that a video released by the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not reallyMoslems.... group last month, showing the beheading of 22 Syrian soldiers, took between four and six hours to film, and cost an estimated $200,000. The propaganda video, released on November 16 and called “Though the Unbelievers Despise It,” shows the simultaneous executions of the Syrian soldiers as well as the beheading of US aid worker and hostage Peter (Abdul Rahman) Kassig. The US-based terrorism research organization TRAC (Terrorism Research & Analysis Consortium) and a UK-based counter-extremism think tank Quilliam analyzed the production techniques used to make the video in an effort to identify victims and their killers and to locate the exact location of the brutal killings. Based on lighting and shadows, the analysts estimated that the video was shot in multiple takes over a four- to six-hour period. They also noted several inconsistencies in the line-up order of hostages and killers. In certain frames the jihadists can be seen chatting among themselves, passing time between takes. TRAC said that the professional-quality footage was filmed with multiple high-definition cameras and edited with state-of-the-art software. Veryan Khan, a TRAC researcher, told TIME magazine that the video would have likely had a director, producer and editor, who may have used storyboards like traditional filmmakers. Khan pointed out that not only did the executioners posses a certain physical aesthetic, they also represented varying ethnicities and nationalities, a way for the Islamic State to demonstrate the global reach of its self-proclaimed caliphate. Although almost all of the 22 killers are unmasked and potentially identifiable, only one has been formally named: Maxime Hauchard, a 22-year-old convert to Islam from La Belle France. In the video, the killers appear to be led by a masked “Jihadi John,” the British IS krazed killer believed to be responsible for the beheadings of Kassig, as well as James Foley, Steven Sotloff, David Haine and Alan Henning. However, death is not the end. There remains the litigation over the estate... TRAC analysts said that the film’s transitional sequences may show that the British jihadist was replaced by a body double during the actual beheadings. In light of the large numbers of radicalized foreigners who have joined the Islamic State, analysts from all over the world have been studying the clip in an effort to identify the rest of the killers. A recent UN report estimates an “unprecedented” influx of 15,000 imported muscle from 80 countries, who have joined the Islamic State’s relentless campaigns in Iraq and Syria. |
| Posted by:trailing wife |
| #3 Oh, I'd like to teach the world to scream And cover it in blood |
| Posted by: Shipman 2014-12-10 12:07 |
| #2 Yeah, but its theie overseas market where they really expect to make their return on investment. |
| Posted by: swksvolFF 2014-12-10 11:43 |
| #1 Khan pointed out that not only did the executioners posses a certain physical aesthetic, they also represented varying ethnicities and nationalities, a way for the Islamic State to demonstrate the global reach of its self-proclaimed caliphate. Oh, like a psychotic Coke commercial. |
| Posted by: Pappy 2014-12-10 11:21 |