Revelation 6:3-4 NCV When the Lamb opened the second seal, I heard the second living creature say, "Come!" Then another horse came out, a red one. Its rider was given power to take away peace (prosperity, rest) from the earth and to make people kill each other (butcher, slaughter, to maim violently, in streets), and he was given a big sword (assassins sword, terrorist, loud, mighty, sore afraid).
Boko Haram, the Nigerian branch of Al-Qaeda, has escalated their attacks by abducting a French engineer in their first kidnapping of a foreign national according to French President Francois Hollande.
Boko Haram has been terrorizing northern Nigeria in an attempt to force extreme Sharia Law on the nation. The group has connections to Al-Qaeda terror cells in neighboring Niger and Mali which routinely have abducted foreign nationals.
Two security guards were killed and a police officer wounded during the kidnapping.
The kidnapping comes on the heels of the United Nations approving a military assault against Al-Qaeda related groups that have taken control of northern Mali.
Earlier this year, Al-Qaeda terrorists killed a German engineer during a rescue attempt. British and Nigeria troops killed a British and Italian hostage in a similar rescue attempt.
