Al Jazeera Removes Story Claiming Foley, Sotloff Executions Were Staged

An Al Jazeera story claiming that the video executions of freelance American journalists James Foley and Steven Sotloff were faked has been removed from the news outlet’s website.

The piece alleged that the masked executioner(s) seen in both videos resembled a Hollywood actor, that the cutting was suspicious, and that slo-mo revealed the knives cutting into the journalists’ throat drew no blood.

RELATED: ISIS Reportedly Released Sotloff Execution Video ‘By Mistake’

The page where the post had been now features a broken link error.

“In respect to families of the victims and as we share their grief, Al Jazeera Arabic’s website decided to retract an inaccurate article that questioned the legitimacy of Foley and Sotloff’s beheading videos after a theory surfaced on a number of American social media sites claiming they were produced as a pretext ahead of a U.S. invasion of Syria,” Al Jazeera wrote Sunday, before reiterating its condemnation of ISIS over the deaths of the two American journalists.

[h/t Al Arabiya]

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