article_snippet: Saleh, who worked as a translator, also revealed that ISIS routinely subjected hostages to mock executions so that when their beheading did finally come their beheading were not expecting to die.
article_snippet: Saleh said the prisoners would be given Arabic names to make it appear like the prisoners were with friends and continually reassured that the prisoners would not be killed.
article_snippet: Saleh said: 'Saleh would say to Saleh "say to the prisoners, no problem, only video, we don't kill you, we want from your government [to] stop attacking Syria.
article_snippet: Saleh said Saleh explained to the hostages that they were safe, but always knew they would be killed.
article_snippet: Saleh comments explain why so many of the prisoners appear so calm in the executions videos right up to the point where the knife is placed against the prisoners throat.
article_snippet: Saleh Saleh revealed how hostages were given Arabic names to give hostages the impression hostages were among friends .
article_snippet: And hostages were routinely subjected to mock executions, with hostages captors telling their captors their captors would not be killed as it was a show for the camera, according to Saleh.
highlights_snippet: Staged fake executions while reassuring fake executions fake executions would not be murdered .
  
highlights_snippet: Captives were given Arabic names to lure fake executions into false sense of security .
  
highlights_snippet: Explains why hostages appear calm right to when knife is placed on throat .