More Proof Peter Kassig Beheading Was A Hoax

There's yet another twist in the story about Indianapolis native Peter Kassig going to Syria to do charitable work, converting to Islam, getting captured by the very soldiers our own government covertly trained, armed and funded to depose the Syrian government now deemed enemy combatants before later being executed by beheading after being held hostage for more than a year after his capture. The video supposedly released by ISIS to the public claiming Kassig was executed, along with more than a dozen other captured Syrian soldiers, was obviously a staged production using actors brought to you by your own government, which wants to scare you into believing that ISIS requires as much attention as their last terrorist creation, Al Qaeda, to justify their never-ending war on terror.

A recent news story by the Daily Mail acknowledged the possibility that Kassig had not been killed by ISIS; rather, he was killed by friendly fire after U.S. officials admitted the supposed beheading video may have been staged. The leader of an anti-ISIS group claimed Kassig was killed during a U.S.-led airstrike in Syria against ISIS forces on November 5. Now the Daily Mail is reporting that medical experts who have viewed the beheading video have concluded Kassig was likely already dead when the film was produced, and that the video had been digitally altered to make it appear that Jihadi John was standing over Kassig's head. Unlike the other victims, the video did not show the terrorists with knives in hand preparing to behead Kassig. The latest from the Daily Mail:

Extraordinary new research has emerged suggesting Peter Kassig's beheading was faked by ISIS, and that the U.S. aid worker was killed by a gunshot, not decapitated by Jihadi John as implied. 

Medical experts examining an ISIS propaganda video in which Mr Kassig's severed head is seen at the feet of ISIS' British executioner in chief, have concluded that he is likely to have been shot dead. The claims add further weight to speculation over why Mr Kassig's full body was not shown in the video. 

Unlike ISIS' previous sickening filmed murders, he did not speak directly to camera before being killed and his body was not shown after the murder. A popular theory is that Mr Kassig was killed before the video was shot because he did not cooperate with the jihadists - either refusing to give a final speech on camera or possibly even fighting back while the murder was taking place. 

His initial assessment was that a contusion above Mr Kassig's left eye was a gunshot wound. 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,' he added. 

Digital analysis of the film also suggests that Jihadi John may have been superimposed in the frame where he is seen standing over Mr Kassig's severed head. The raises the question of whether Mr Kassig was murdered in an entirely different location to the Syrian soldiers . . . 

The only additional information the Indianapolis Star provided to this story beyond what we were hearing from national news reports was to tell us that the reputed parents of Peter Kassig, Ed Kassig, a retired school teacher, and his wife Paula, a nurse for refugees, were actually his adopted parents. Kassig's biological mother, Rhonda Schwindt, an assistant professor of nursing at Indiana University's School of Nursing, complained to the Star about how the government refused to communicate with her and her children about her son. According to Schwindt, Kassig had sought out his biological family when he turned 18 and developed an ongoing relationship with them that continued up to the time he left the country for Syria. Schwindt complained the government kept them in the dark about the disappearance of Peter for many months after reaching out to the Kassigs and offering grief assistance to them but not his biological family.

When the public first became aware Peter was being held captive more than a year after he went missing, I found it odd that the website for his charity had only been created and uploaded to the Internet a couple of months before his disappearance. There was little information available about who was funding his charity. There had been no local reports about his work in Syria despite CNN having profiled his work in a high-profile piece more than two years ago, which made no mention of his conversion to Islam. In that news report, Kassig was shown applying fake bandages to supposed victims of the American-fueled civil war in Syria in an otherwise scripted interview. Blogger Max Malone's video below analyzes the video Kassig's alleged ISIS captors produced, which is too sophisticated and Hollywood-like in its production to have been filmed by a rag tag group of terrorists.