Man Fakes Own Beheading Video

[The Sushi Bandit]

http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-video8aug08,1,2978984.story

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San Francisco resident posted the tape on the Web and an Arab TV station aired it. FBI says a probe is pending.
By Cara Mia DiMassa and Robert Hollis
Special to The Times

August 8, 2004

SAN FRANCISCO - A one-time county supervisorial candidate said Saturday that he made a video faking his own beheading and posted it on a website to draw attention to his erstwhile campaign and to demonstrate how easily such videos could be produced.

The video came to light after Associated Press reported that it had aired Saturday on Al-Arabiya television.

Sitting on the bedroom floor of the one-bedroom apartment he shares with three roommates in San Francisco's Western Addition neighborhood, Ben Vanderford said he made the video months ago using a digital hand-held camera and homemade fake blood.

"It was not intended to be a mockumentary or a hoax," said Vanderford, 22, who said he is a video-game designer.

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He's getting his 15 minutes