SAN FRANCISCO - A video aired Saturday that purportedly showed an American being decapitated in Iraq was a hoax.
The man shown in the video, reached by The Associated Press in San Francisco, said he videotaped the staged beheading at his friend's house using fake blood.
Benjamin Vanderford, 22, said he began distributing the video on the Internet months ago in hopes of drawing attention to his one-time campaign for city supervisor. When his political aspirations waned, he thought the video would serve as social commentary.
Well god damn, and i thougth I had no life
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