Corporate Media Says Islamic State Ransom Video Studio Produced

‘The latest video attributed to the Islamic State was produced in a studio with a green screen backdrop and not shot at an outdoor location, according to the Associated Press.

The video, supposed produced by the Islamic State’s al-Furqan media arm shows two Japanese men, Kenji Goto, a journalist, and Haruna Yukawa, who runs a security company, kneeling beside a black-clad “Jihad John” who demands the Japanese government pay a $200 million ransom for the release of the men.
The deadline for the ransom passed on Friday without incident.
Veryan Khan, editorial director for the Terrorism Research and Analysis Consortium, said a number of things reveal that the video is fake.’

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