A new Boko
Haram video shows the beheading of a man identified as the pilot of a
missing Nigerian Air Force jet and burnt out parts of a plane — the
first indication that the Islamic extremist group has the capability to
bring down aircraft.
It also
allegedly features Boko Haram leader Abubakar Shekau, a man the military
has claimed to have killed last year. Two weeks ago, the military said
they had killed in battle a Shekau lookalike who had posed in the
group’s videos.
“Here I
am, alive and I will remain alive until the day Allah takes away my
breath,” the man says in the Hausa language. “Even if you kill me … it
will not stop us imposing Islamic rule … We are still in our Islamic
state, reigning and teaching the Koran.”
The United States still has a $7m ransom on Shekau’s head, despite the death claims.
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