Islamic State terrorists kill 11 Christian (and a Muslim) captives on Christmas Day

From the Nigerian Guardian, the Daily Mail and Nigerian blogger Almad Sakida

The Islamic State West Africa Province have executed 11 captives, mostly Christians, weeks after it killed aid workers.

Ahmad Salkida, a conflict journalist renowned for his monitoring of terrorist activities in Nigeria’s northeast, said ISWAP the captives were executed  “as a revenge for the killings of our leaders, including Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi and Abul-Hasan Al-Muhajir in Iraq and Syria.”

A video released on Wednesday showed 13 hostages, 10 believed to be Christian and three Muslim. ISWAP claimed they spared the lives of two of the Muslims. The deaths came after an earlier video saw the hostages plead with the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) to negotiate their release. 

But conflict journalists and researchers, including Jacob Zenn, said “it is possible IS ordered ISWAP to kill them.” as it had intervened in other hostage situations.”

He, however, debunked claims by the terrorist group that all victims are Christians.

Ahmad Sakida ascertained the names of the hostages last week. 

The killing comes few hours after Boko Haram jihadists killed seven people on Christmas Eve in a raid on a Christian village near the town of Chibok in northeast Nigeria’s Borno state.

Dozens of fighters driving trucks and motorcycles stormed into Kwarangulum late Tuesday, shooting fleeing residents and burning homes after looting food supplies.