A sick way to run for public office

CBC News: Beheading video was a hoax

SAN FRANCISCO - A 22-year-old American from San Francisco has admitted to faking his own decapitation for a video that went unnoticed for months until it came to the media's attention on Saturday.
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The video shows him urging the United States to pull out of Iraq, before what looks like a beheading. It shows a hand with a knife cutting at the man's neck, but it doesn't show his head actually removed from the body.
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He said he began distributing the video on the Internet months ago in hopes of drawing attention to his one-time campaign for city supervisor.