This is just really weird

and that's coming from a film student who does this type of shit for a living (or at least hopes to one day).

The American soldier supposedly taken hostage is actually an action doll...something like GI joe, I guess. It's so unbelievably stupid, that I can't imagine someone making this up. Also in the article is a reference to a 22 year old SF man who faked his own beheading and sent it to news networks last year.

Jim Morrison was right, people are strange.