The extremist Islamist group Boko Haram has released a video that shows the charred wreckage of a plane and the beheading of a man identified as a pilot of a missing Nigerian Air Force jet, bolstering the group’s claims that it shot down a fighter plane. Two pilots and a jet have been missing since Sept. 11 when the jet left the northeastern town of Yola on a bombing mission against Boko Haram. The video shows a man in a camouflage vest kneeling and a man standing over him with an ax, which is later used in the beheading.
Speaking in English, the victim identifies himself as a wing commander in the Nigerian Air Force and says he was on a mission in Borno State. The video also shows a man who identifies himself as Boko Haram’s leader, Abubakar Shekau. The military has twice claimed that it had killed Mr. Shekau, and two weeks ago it said its troops had killed a Shekau look-alike who had posed in the group’s videos. “Here I am, alive,” the man says in the Hausa language. Nigeria’s Defense Headquarters suggested in a blog that the insurgents had manipulated images and cloned “another Shekau.”
Source- New-York Times
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