Amaq Archives - Jean-Jacques Cornish https://jjcornish.com/tag/amaq/ The low down on African affairs Thu, 26 Dec 2019 22:00:00 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.5 https://i0.wp.com/jjcornish.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/cropped-Fountain_Pen_favicon-812.png?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 Amaq Archives - Jean-Jacques Cornish https://jjcornish.com/tag/amaq/ 32 32 ISIS shows beheading of 11 Christian captives at Christmas https://jjcornish.com/2019/12/isis-shows-beheading-of-11-christian-captives-at-christmas/ Thu, 26 Dec 2019 22:00:00 +0000 https://jjcornish.com/2019/12/isis-shows-beheading-of-11-christian-captives-at-christmas/ The terror group calling itself Islamic State has released footage of 11 captures Christians being beheaded. The groups is calling this revenge for the October killing in Syria of its leader and spokesperson . The 56-second piece of footage released by the so-called ISIS news agency Amaq does not give the names of the 11 […]

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]]> The terror group calling itself Islamic State has released footage of 11 captures Christians being beheaded.

The groups is calling this revenge for the October killing in Syria of its leader and spokesperson .

The 56-second piece of footage released by the so-called ISIS news agency Amaq does not give the names of the 11 victims.

They are believed to be men captured in  Nigeria’s north-eastern Borno State in recent weeks.

The timing coincides with Christmas the most important Christian festival.

The Nigerian government has not been able to contain the Islamist terrorist group Boko Haram operating in the north east of the country which has substantial ties with other jihadi extremist militant groups like ISIS.

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