Last Saturday, Al-Jazeera and Al-Arabia satellite channels admitted that they were hoaxed by an American computer expert. Benjamin Vanderford, 22, from San Francisco, confessed that he videotaped his staged beheading at a friend’s house using fake blood. In the footage, Vanderford sits on a chair in a dark room, his hands behind his back as he trembles and rocks back and forth. “We need to leave this country alone. We need to stop this occupation,” Vanderford is heard saying. The video was titled “Abu Musab al-Zarqawi Slaughters an American.”