Here’s my thought: ISIS is sophisticated. They want a “clean message,” so they film parts in the studio. If the victim acts up, or they screw up the message... TAKE TWO! If the victim refuses to cooperate, they stop filming for the day, torture the guy, threaten his family, and then try again. Rinse, repeat until they get a video showing they are “in control.”
Then, once they got the vid they want, they do the messy stuff off camera.
However, there are lots of raw videos of atrocities where they haven’t bothered to stage it much. They just set the guy on fire and film away.
Where do you think they learned how to be so sophisticated?
Remember the Nick Berg video?
The Nick Berg video was a completely staged event that was coordinated with the CBS news story on Abu Graib prison.
As Charles Barron said it symbolized the plight of the black man in Americas prisons.
Nick Berg wasn’t supposed to be killed.
The Nick Berg video was supposed to be a democrat propaganda video.
Nick Berg actually being killed ruined the propaganda value of the video.