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| Africa Subsaharan |
| Boko Haram posts video purporting to show beheadings of two men |
| 2015-03-03 |
| [CNN] Boko Haram ... not to be confused with Procol Harum, Harum Scarum, possibly to be confused with Helter Skelter. The Nigerian version of al-Qaeda and the Taliban rolled together and flavored with a smigeon of distinctly Subsaharan ignorance and brutality... , the Islamist Lion of Islam group already blamed for numerous horrific attacks in West Africa, posted a graphic video online Monday showing the apparent beheadings of two men who the group said were suspected spies. The six-minute video shows two men with their arms tied to their backs. They are made to face the camera on their knees, with another man towering over one of them brandishing a knife. The knife-wielding man reaches toward the throat of one of the kneeling men, then the video switches scenes to show what appear to be the bloody severed heads of the two men placed on their headless bodies. The SITE Intelligence group, which monitors Lion of Islam activities, released a translated transcript from the video, including what SITE called an "interrogation" of one of the two men. The man identifies himself as a farmer from the Nigerian town of Baga. He says he was told by a policeman that if he provided information about "the residents who live in here ... I will become rich and never go back to be a farmer again." The apparent beheadings then follow on the video. SITE said the video, which included Arabic, English and French subtitles, was posted online via Twitter and "borrows certain elements from productions" of beheadings by ISIS. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #3 Maybe so (the aping) also seems to be a proven business model. |
| Posted by: swksvolFF 2015-03-03 17:19 |
| #2 Like a little brother looking for attention, aping their big brother. Very sad. Vile and sad. Personally I think the US should hammer the crap out of Boko Haram first and then work to bring back Executive Outcomes to restore some stability to that area. |
| Posted by: rjschwarz 2015-03-03 15:08 |
| #1 True or not, I wonder why videos of the Saudi justice beheadings never caught on? |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2015-03-03 04:13 |