ISIS / IS / ISIL / The Islamic State

I apologose for the tone of my first response, Kevin.

Though it leaves little to the imagination, the deeply disturbing film does not show the actual moment of Foley’s decapitation. This marks it out from other, less sophisticated predecessors.
‘Some previous Islamist videos, such as the one showing the killing of U.S. hostage Nick Berg in 2004, didn’t get widely shared because people regarded them as too graphic,’ says Hussain.
‘This one, however, has been edited to make it less like a snuff movie, and therefore far more useful as a piece of propaganda.’ says Ghaffar Hussain, the managing director of the anti-extremist Quilliam Foundation.

Hussain also goes into the intended targets of the propaganda film in this article:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2730354/Five-minutes-savagery-video-slick-sickening.html

And yes, it is a Mail article, but I still believe what Hussein says.