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Benjamin Vanderford is a video game designer, musician for Record Label Records, and San Francisco resident who created a faked video beheading and propagated it on the internet. The video was posted on an militant Islamist website, and depicted Vanderford as a hostage, pleading that the United States immediately leave Iraq. The introductory title claimed it was Abu Musab al-Zarqawi "killing an American." FBI special agent LaRae Quy said the FBI "will pursue any and all legal avenues for prosecution. At this point the matter is still under investigation."Vanderford is heard saying on the video "if we don't [leave Iraq], everyone is gonna be killed in this way ... I have been offered for exchange for prisoners here in Iraq," [1]
The video was initially released on the Kazaa and Soulseek filesharing networks with titles like "new iraqi execution", the very day that the Nick Berg execution tape was released. People searching for the Nick Berg video on Kazaa might come across the Vanderford video and it would spread in this method. One of the reasons Vanderford stated for creating the video was to test how effective this distribution system would be. It was an anonymous file sharer, not Benjamin Vanderford, who apparently sent it to the Islamist website where it gained mainstream coverage. This technique, of releasing a video simultaneously as a major media event on a peer to peer network, is predicted to become widespread for use by political agitators, and advertisements. When Siegfried and Roy had their unfortunate tiger incident many porn websites tried to capitilize on the event by posting video advertisements on Kazaa under the guise of a "Siegfried and Roy tiger attack!"
Vanderford is the creator of the video game Good Vs. Bad 2, and is half of the experimental music group fluorescent grey. He also has an experimental rap musical project called the great white hype.
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