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   LAGOS, Nigeria —   
   Boko Haram, the extremist Islamic group In Nigeria, has   
   published a video that shows charred plane wreckage 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.   
      
   The video also allegedly features Boko Haram leader Abubakar   
   Shekau, a man Nigeria's military twice has claimed to kill --   
   first in 2009 and again last year. Two weeks ago the military   
   said they had killed 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   
   Quran."   
      
   The United States still has a $7 million bounty on Shekau's head.   
      
   The video was made available to The Associated Press through the   
   same channels used previously and seems to show the same man.   
   Nigeria's Defense Headquarters suggested in a blog that the   
   insurgents had manipulated images and cloned "another Shekau."   
      
   In the video, the man identified as Shekau says Boko Haram is   
   implementing strict Shariah law in areas of northeast Nigeria   
   under its control. Examples are shown, including the stoning   
   death of a man apparently accused of adultery; the amputation of   
   the hand of a young man accused of theft; the lashings of a man   
   and what appears to be a girl covered in a hijab.   
      
   The video ends with a show of burnt-out plane parts in rugged   
   bush. Two pilots and an Alpha jet have been missing since Sept.   
   11 when it left the northeastern town of Yola on a bombing   
   mission against Boko Haram.   
      
   The video shows a kneeling man in a camouflage vest with his   
   right hand in a sling, with a fighter hovering 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 undertaking   
   a mission in Kauri area of northeast Borno state.   
      
   "We were shot down and our aircraft crashed," he says. "To this   
   day I don't know the whereabouts of my second pilot."   
      
   The insurgents have stolen military hardware from Nigerian   
   forces, probably including anti-aircraft weapons.   
      
   http://seattletimes.com/html/nationworld/2024689960_apxnigeriavi   
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