Experts Conclude Something Remarkable About ISIS Beheading of Former Army Ranger
The Islamic States wants the world to believe that nobody dares to resist them.
An American captive of the terrorist regime may have died proving them wrong.
New evidence strongly suggests that an Army Ranger recently beheaded by ISIS didn’t give in to the terrorists, but may have fought to the death.
Peter Kassig was captured in Syria a year ago. At that time, he was providing humanitarian aid to civilian refugees.
However, Kassig was not always a civilian. He was also a veteran of the Iraq war, where he served as an Army Ranger.
After being held captive for many months, ISIS announced in October 2014 that the former Ranger would be beheaded.
It’s not known exactly when they carried out that threat. However, in November, the Islamic State released a propaganda video that showed a terrorist figure known as “Jihadi John” with a severed human head.
U.S. intelligence agencies confirmed that the beheaded man was Peter Kassig.
There were strange anomalies in the video that were immediately investigated.
The actual beheading was not shown in the video, and the man’s body did not appear in the footage until after he had been decapitated.
Now, researchers believe that the military veteran refused to cooperate with the terrorists, and was killed while resisting.
Certain shadows on the figure of “Jihadi John” led experts to suspect that the entire video was altered, and the terrorist may have been digitally added to the frame.
“The analyst categorically believes that the shadows were added, and added poorly,” said digital video expert Charlie Winter. [H/T: Mad World News]
Analysts do not dispute that Peter Kassig was actually beheaded — but they allege that it happened after death occurred.
One of the clues that led them to that conclusion is a prominent wound that was visible on the head of the slain man.
“We have had a senior face and neck surgeon independently look at some of the screenshots we took. His initial assessment was that a contusion (a bruise) above Mr. Kassig’s left eye was a gunshot wound,” Winter stated to The Telegraph.
“Closer analysis of the wound reinforced that initial assessment, leading him to believe that the wound was probably the cause of death, rather than beheading,” continued the expert.
If Peter Kassig was killed from a gunshot, it is completely possible that he resisted his captors. This would mean that he died not as a helpless victim, but as a man fighting even to his last breath.
That act of resistance would completely undermine the propaganda of helpless captives pushed by the Islamic State.
It could even be the very reason that ISIS refused to show the beheading on video.
As a trained Army Ranger, Kassig would have had a much different mentality than other civilian captives.
In fact, part of the Ranger Creed — which soldiers take extremely seriously — deals with situations just like the one that Kassig found himself in:
“Energetically will I meet the enemies of my country. I shall defeat them on the field of battle for I am better trained and will fight with all my might. Surrender is not a Ranger word. I will never leave a fallen comrade to fall into the hands of the enemy and under no circumstances will I ever embarrass my country.
“Readily will I display the intestinal fortitude required to fight on to the Ranger objective and complete the mission though I be the lone survivor.”
The exact details surrounding Peter Kassig’s death will probably never be known. However, he deserves to be remembered as a hero.
Source: Conservative Tribune
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