Twenty-one Egyptian Christians in Libya were brought to the seaside near Tripoli recently where they were simultaneously beheaded by ISIS murderers for a video spectacle.
Their names should be remembered.
The White House refuses to refer in any way to the men's Christian identity, even while the ISIS video makes it explicit that they were killed solely because they were Christians.
The question is begged:
Not to the Obama administration.
Update: Video technologists and special effects say that the video of the beheadings is substantially faked, although no one thinks that the Egyptian Christians are still alive. One giveaway is this frame (photolink may perishable) that seems to show dwarf Egyptians and giant Islamists, towering two feet over their victims:
But several anomalies in the video, which was posted online Feb. 15, indicated to trained eyes that at least some of the production was done on "green screen" with background added later, perhaps to disguise the real location of the atrocity. A day after the clip went viral, Egyptian warplanes struck hard at an eastern port city near Tripoli, where the video appeared to have been shot.But the Christian men are still dead. Link.
“The Islamic State’s manipulation of their high-production videos has become commonplace,” said Veryan Khan, editorial director of the Florida-based Terrorism Research & Analysis Consortium. The murders likely took place in a studio, and the background image shown was likely from another location, the Bay in Sirte, a part of the Mediterranean Sea on the northern coast of Libya, according to Khan. There are several technical mistakes in the video that show it was manipulated, she said.
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