It looks like Hollywood is not the only film—making place in trouble these days. Following the death of Zarqawi there has also been a noticeable decline in the quality of the cinematographic output by the Iraqi insurgents. Their trademark beheading videos — so artfully staged not so long ago — are now marred by low production standards and embarrassing ineptness of the protagonists. Unfocused and badly put together, they are what can only be called amateur stuff. The latest one features a hapless jihadist struggling to hack off the head of his victim with what looks like a poorly—sharpened knife. Having clumsily completed his gruesome task, he then repeatedly attempts to stand the severed part on the back of the lifeless body. When it becomes clear that he will not succeed, the ever—resourceful cameraman tries to escape the embarrassment by filming the walls of the ramshackle room which served as the setting for this pitiful performance. The whole fiasco...(Read Full Post)