LAGOS (Reuters) - A Nigerian Islamist group that killed seven foreign hostages it had been holding since February has posted a video of their bodies on the Internet.
Italian and Greek authorities confirmed on Sunday that a British, an Italian, a Greek and four Lebanese construction workers abducted in northern Nigeria's Bauchi state last month had been killed by their captors.
British Foreign Secretary William Hague said it was "very likely" they were dead, calling it "an act of cold blooded murder". Nigerian authorities have thus far not commented.
The national police spokesman and a spokesman for police forces in Bauchi state both said on Monday they could not yet confirm or deny the killings.
The silent video published by the al-Qaeda linked group, Ansaru, and dated March 9 shows a gunman standing next to a pile of bodies, then a series of close-ups of their faces lit up by a torch.
It carries the Arabic title "The killing of the seven Christian hostages in Nigeria" although the religion of the captives was not clear.
A caption underneath says in Arabic and in English: "In the name of Allah Most Beneficent Most Merciful".
The workers were seized from the premises of the Lebanese firm Setraco in the remote town of Jama'are in Bauchi state.
donklass at 11-03-2013 10:47 PM (12 years ago) (m)
surelly this religous begots will creat hell in the north,sooner or later the repercusion of this madness will tral notherners for many years to come,my heart bleeds for the future of these country ... may the soul of this innocent worker rest in perfect peace.
Posted: at 11-03-2013 10:47 PM (12 years ago) | Upcoming
odprince at 11-03-2013 11:43 PM (12 years ago) (m)
Nigeria need to be divide to stop what is happening now,,,during the Nigerian and Biafra war....Britain was the peoples who kill Igbos ..so now make boko haram kill them as they kill Biafrans............my concern is for Biafra to be free..whatever that happens,we will bear it,,,,,,anyway,,,am sorry for those family that lost their love ones....Hausa politicians are the killers
Posted: at 11-03-2013 11:43 PM (12 years ago) | Gistmaniac
THIS IS JUST TOO INHUMANE AND VERY UNGODLY. HOW CAN THIS TERRORISTS KILL INNOCENT PEOPLE? THIS WHOLE THING IS OUT OF HAND. WHY CAN'T THE NIGERIAN GOVERNMENT SEEK FOR THE SUPPORT OF FOREIGN SOLDIERS TO HELP IN FIGHTING THESE EVIL AND DEVILISH PEOPLE? MALI AS A COUNTRY ASKED FOR THE HELP OF THE FRENCH TROOPS AND THAT HELPED IN FIGHTING TERRORISTS AND EXTREMISTS AND THEY FLED AT LEAST. WHY CAN'T THE NIGERIAN GOVERNMENT DO THE SAME? HOW CAN OUR GOVERNMENT TURN A BLIND EYE TO SUCH AN EVIL ACT? AND THESE PEOPLE ARE BEING SPONSORED BY SOME TOP POLITICIANS IN GOVERNMENT.
Posted: at 12-03-2013 12:25 AM (12 years ago) | Gistmaniac
morgrawl231 at 12-03-2013 12:40 AM (12 years ago) (m)
AFTER KILLING,,BOKO HARAM WILL SAY "In the name of Allah Most Beneficent Most Merciful".........IS THIS WHAT UR ALLAH SENT U TO BE DOING?? I FEAR FOR THE RELIGION SEF!!!
Posted: at 12-03-2013 12:40 AM (12 years ago) | Hero
I am a muslim and even i must say this is just barbaric and nowhere should dis be allowed to go on without punishment in this world and the after life.
Posted: at 12-03-2013 12:54 AM (12 years ago) | Upcoming
Mobbysmartins at 12-03-2013 02:21 AM (12 years ago) (m)
God have mercy on your children.Look at what my country have descended to.Those that makes peaceful co-existence in Nigeria impossible should realize they are also making the violent break up of Nigeria inevitable.What kind of animals treats fellow human beings like this all in the name of religion?I am ashamed to be a Nigerian.Then I think about the deafening silence of the Northern elders over these issues.How can a group of elders decide to be silent when their children are on rampage leaving behind sorrow,tears and blood wherever they go??.To all the Northerners who are above 50 years of age and who have chosen to be silent in the face of these mayhem because the mayhem is being perpetrated by your children.I want to tell you about a man called Pastor Niemoller (German) and what he had to say about the Nazi after several years of being silent
First they came for the Jews and I did not speak out because I was not a Jew. Then they came for the Communists and I did not speak out because I was not a Communist. Then they came for the trade unionists and I did not speak out because I was not a trade unionist. Then they came for me and there was no one left to speak out for me.
The implosion that is going to happen in the North of Nigeria will consume all of you for this conniving silence in the face of evil.For failing to call your children to order,the sins of your children shall be visited on you people.A generation backward and four generation forward shall the sins of your children be visited on you and your children's,children's,children's,children.Yes,to the fourth generation it shall be taken upon you.
Posted: at 12-03-2013 02:21 AM (12 years ago) | Gistmaniac
Hmmm may GOD help us 
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