No way, say medical experts: “American businessman Nicholas Berg’s body was found on May 8 near a Baghdad overpass; a video of his supposed decapitation death by knife appeared on an alleged al-Qaeda-linked website (www.al-ansar.biz) on May 11. But according to what both a leading surgical authority and a noted forensic death expert separately told Asia Times Online, the video depicting the decapitation appears to have been staged.” (Asia Times)

A compiled list of doubts raised by dubious webloggers did the rounds several weeks ago; now these medical experts echo many of the same suspicions.