I guess he was beaten down and broken ove a long period prior to this.
He can’t be forced to say anything.
I suspect they did multiple mock executions until he got it right, maybe over a period of months. If he had known it was real, he would more likely have said, "Barack Hussein Obama, I hold you and your limp wrist moral relativist followers entirely responsible for my execution. There is a difference between western values and this 7th century death cult as practiced by its terrorists and their innumerable supporters, and it's the difference between good and evil. Pretending there is no difference empowers the enemies of civilization." Unfortunately, however many times he said that, I'm certain they would not have broadcast his words when he spoke the truth.
He can’t be forced to say anything.
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The victim spoke the truth, but not in the way the Brits want to hear it. The Brit is now dead because of the pathetic, misguided appeasement that the Brits continue to practice toward Islam. They have shot themselves in the foot over political correctness regarding Islam and it is too late to turn back now. The Brits deny this truth by simply concluding the victim was forced to say what he said and there is no other meaning to assign to his statement.
I don’t know if he was beaten down over a long time or not, just can’t imagine someone calming kneeling there and reading a statement, then having their head cut off short of being shown pictures of his family and told ‘either you do this, or we kill them all.’
I’d hope that law enforcement is closely looking at images of people who hung out in the area of the murdered victim’s families as I bet that near each of them is a terrorist cell ready to launch an attack.
Easy to armchair quarterback when one wasn't on this particular "chopping block".
No sane person would question why he made the statements or try to figure out a reason for it.