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Is it not possible that Foley was killed in the failed US attempt to rescue him and that the resultant vid is just a means of deflecting blame and capitalising on the situation to whip up support for air strikes/re-invasion? I don't see why that is so far fetched given all the shenanigans the UK and US were prepared to engage in to go to war in the first place.
Shrill voiced refusal to consider that it could have been faked doesn't explain away quite basic anomalies like lack of blood and the video (which I don't have any intention of watching) fading out during the beheading, and with so much at stake both politically and commercially you'd be stupid to ignore the role that counter intelligence and pr-stunts have always had in international conflict, with many famous instances in WW2 of intelligence services capitalising on deaths and disappearances to get the upper hand on their adversary.
If the rebels in Ukraine hadn't shot down a commercial jet you can be guaranteed Putin would be doing photo calls in Donetsk just now, but was prevented by a tide of public revulsion making it toxic to be seen to be associated or in support of the perpetrators of an international civilian atrocity. Conspiracy theories there centered on the AIDS scientists being on the plane and Russia's hatred of gays, but if it goes against their own interests in annexing east ukraine and retaining military bases there why the fuck would the sanction it?