I ask because if you couldn't understand the Arabic, are you sure it was Al Jazeera and not another Arabic language channel?
If it was a year ago, and your recollection is so hazy, can you be certain? You haven't actually provided any confirmation, just relayed more unsubstantiated rumour. Given the time lapse and your hazy recollection, it's possible that you saw these images elsewhere and have confused the source.
If there is a link out there to the actual footage of this, I'd very much like to see it, to confirm for myself.
Again, to my knowledge and understanding, Al Jazeera has not broadcast a beheading and you have provided no proof to confirm to the contrary.
Anyway, no disrespect is intended, but surely you can understand why I cannot simply accept your assertion as 'confirmation'? You have not provided any firm details as to the name of the person concerned, what date it was broadcast, details which would be checkable. And to me, you're an unknown source, you're an anonymous person on a website forum and I have no way of knowing whether what you say is credible or not.
Again, no disrespect is intended by saying that. I mean, personally speaking, I can say I have watched one of the beheading incidents over the internet (NOT on Al Jazeera). There are very many sources out there where you can watch that kind of thing, should you choose to do so.
I thought very long and hard before I decided to watch the footage. It wasn't something I did lightly. But having an interest in news and current affairs and also broadcasting, I found it incredibly hard to hold and express any opinion on something I had not personally seen (a debate was raging in the UK at the time about the footage being 'out there' and there were arguments for and against its broadcast).
I might be telling you the truth by saying that I have watched the footage, or I might not be. But you don't know me. So you cannot know for sure, you cannot really take my word for it.
Serendipity
P.S. I enjoy a good (and good-natured) debate too! :)
Are you sure you saw that on Al Jazeera?
I ask because if you couldn't understand the Arabic, are you sure it was Al Jazeera and not another Arabic language channel?
If it was a year ago, and your recollection is so hazy, can you be certain? You haven't actually provided any confirmation, just relayed more unsubstantiated rumour. Given the time lapse and your hazy recollection, it's possible that you saw these images elsewhere and have confused the source.
If there is a link out there to the actual footage of this, I'd very much like to see it, to confirm for myself.
Again, to my knowledge and understanding, Al Jazeera has not broadcast a beheading and you have provided no proof to confirm to the contrary.
Anyway, no disrespect is intended, but surely you can understand why I cannot simply accept your assertion as 'confirmation'? You have not provided any firm details as to the name of the person concerned, what date it was broadcast, details which would be checkable. And to me, you're an unknown source, you're an anonymous person on a website forum and I have no way of knowing whether what you say is credible or not.
Again, no disrespect is intended by saying that. I mean, personally speaking, I can say I have watched one of the beheading incidents over the internet (NOT on Al Jazeera). There are very many sources out there where you can watch that kind of thing, should you choose to do so.
I thought very long and hard before I decided to watch the footage. It wasn't something I did lightly. But having an interest in news and current affairs and also broadcasting, I found it incredibly hard to hold and express any opinion on something I had not personally seen (a debate was raging in the UK at the time about the footage being 'out there' and there were arguments for and against its broadcast).
I might be telling you the truth by saying that I have watched the footage, or I might not be. But you don't know me. So you cannot know for sure, you cannot really take my word for it.
Serendipity
P.S. I enjoy a good (and good-natured) debate too! :)