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| David Haines beheading video: clues could hint at timing and location | David Haines beheading video: clues could hint at timing and location |
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| A video of the beheading of the British aid worker David Haines offers further clues to the location of his Isis killers, and references within the video seem to indicate that the video was shot recently. | |
| The masked militant featured in the video, who appears to be the same man featured in previous videos and has become known as Jihadi John, makes reference to the recent bombing of the Haditha Dam in early September. While that would appear to prove that the video was made recently, the militant wears a mask throughout the video and it is possible that the audio was added later. | |
| Haines speaks to camera at the beginning of the video, reading from a script denouncing David Cameron, before the militant gives a speech to the camera. The film then cuts away before showing what seems to be the aid worker's body | Haines speaks to camera at the beginning of the video, reading from a script denouncing David Cameron, before the militant gives a speech to the camera. The film then cuts away before showing what seems to be the aid worker's body |
| Elliot Higgins, a citizen journalist who runs the site Bellingcat, said after the first two videos that geographical clues indicated that they seemed to have been taken in the hills around Raqqa in Syria. The new video appears to take place in a different location, though Higgins said that it likely took place in a similar area. | Elliot Higgins, a citizen journalist who runs the site Bellingcat, said after the first two videos that geographical clues indicated that they seemed to have been taken in the hills around Raqqa in Syria. The new video appears to take place in a different location, though Higgins said that it likely took place in a similar area. |
| Like previous videos, the newly released clip begins with news films, this time of David Cameron. The Foley and Sotloff films had used similar images of President Obama. | |
| While the first two videos had explicitly address Obama and his policies, this one turns to Cameron, criticising him for “playing the role of the obedient lapdog”. | While the first two videos had explicitly address Obama and his policies, this one turns to Cameron, criticising him for “playing the role of the obedient lapdog”. |
| A frame from the video Isis released of its killing of American journalist Steven Sotloff, in a film called A Second Message To America They are each edited together with brief moments of video static, and interlacing effects on the images that give a similar appearance to when videos are shown within films. | |
| All of the films are in English, with Arabic subtitles, and similar title cards. The video begins with a card calling the video “a message to the allies of America”, closely mirroring the titles of previous films. | All of the films are in English, with Arabic subtitles, and similar title cards. The video begins with a card calling the video “a message to the allies of America”, closely mirroring the titles of previous films. |
| The video closes with the militant showing another British hostage. Haines had appeared at the end of the video of the murder of Steven Sotloff, who had himself appeared in the James Foley one. | The video closes with the militant showing another British hostage. Haines had appeared at the end of the video of the murder of Steven Sotloff, who had himself appeared in the James Foley one. |