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] The mid-air explosion of a Nigerian military jet shown in a video released by Boko Haram
... not to be confused with Procol Harum, Harum Scarum, possibly to be confused with Helter Skelter. The Nigerian version of al-Qaeda and the Taliban rolled together and flavored with a smigeon of distinctly Subsaharan ignorance and brutality...was faked, according to a CNN analysis.
Conflicting reports had emerged in Nigeria over the video of a downed plane, after the country's air force disputed claims from Boko Haram that its holy warriors shot down a jet.
Boko Haram released a seven-minute video Friday, showing the Nigerian Alpha jet flying above its fighters. Then there is a mid-air explosion.
When analyzed closely, however, the earth-shattering kaboom includes a thin smoke trail immediately above the plane -- at odds with its trajectory. The smoke trail and the shape and color of the fireball are identical to a mid-air explosion of a helicopter over the Syrian city of Ma'arrat al-Nu'man, near Idlib, in 2012.