Kano , Nigeria ( CNN ) Boko Haram , the Islamist extremist group already blamed for numerous horrific attacks in West Africa , posted a graphic video online Monday showing the apparent beheadings of two men who the group said were suspected spies . The six-minute video shows two men with their arms tied to their backs . They are made to face the camera on their knees , with another man towering over one of them brandishing a knife . The knife-wielding man reaches toward the throat of one of the kneeling men , then the video switches scenes to show what appear to be the bloody severed heads of the two men placed on their headless bodies . The SITE Intelligence group , which monitors extremist activities , released a translated transcript from the video , including what SITE called an `` interrogation '' of one of the two men . The man identifies himself as a farmer from the Nigerian town of Baga . He says he was told by a policeman that if he provided information about `` the residents who live in here ... I will become rich and never go back to be a farmer again . '' The apparent beheadings then follow on the video . SITE said the video , which included Arabic , English and French subtitles , was posted online via Twitter and `` borrows certain elements from productions '' of beheadings by ISIS . The video was posted by the media division of Boko Haram , SITE said . Although this is the first purported beheading video Boko Haram posted online.‎ the group has previously issued more detailed and extremely violent beheading videos directly to journalists through intermediaries . Unlike the video posted Monday , previous ones have shown the actual decapitations . ‎In October 2014 , Boko Haram handed out a 10-minute video showing the decapitation of a Nigerian military pilot the group said it had seized a month earlier after shooting down his fighter jet during a mission against Boko Haram in northeast Nigeria . ‎In April 2014 , the Islamist group released 16-minute video showing what it said was the beheading of a soldier its fighters captured in a battle in Sambisa forest‎ , the group 's main enclave . In February 2014 , another video showing the beheading of an alleged informant who led the military to a Boko Haram camp in Sambisa forest during an offensive was issued by the group . And in February 2010 , Boko Haram released a 12-minute video in which two policemen were beheaded in an undisclosed location . Those videos all ended with a speech from an `` executioner '' warning that the group would carry out similar punishment for anyone it captures supporting the Nigerian government against it . ‎Observers of Boko Haram , which has inflicted years of terror on northern Nigeria , note that its actions in the past six months have frequently mimicked those of ISIS -- from punishments such as stoning and beheading of its victims to taking territory and an increasingly sophisticated use of social media that 's very much in the ISIS `` style . '' Jacob Zenn , who follows Boko Haram 's operations and propaganda closely , recently told CNN , `` It 's clear Boko Haram is leaning toward ISIS in terms of doctrine , ideology and an emphasis on holding territory after operations . '' In terms of ideology , Boko Haram 's leader , Abubakar Shekau , has said that kidnappings and hostage-taking are approved in the Quran , a claim ISIS also makes . `` Our hostages are Christians or corrupted Muslims who follow the Christian way , '' he said last year , referring to schoolgirls kidnapped in Chibok , Nigeria , most of whom remain missing . ISIS later referred to the Chibok abductions in its kidnapping of hundreds of Yazidi women and girls . Zenn and other analysts point out that recent Boko Haram videos have resembled the polished media productions of ISIS . Zenn notes they `` have the same choreography and lens angles as ISIS . '' Boko Haram has begun using ISIS symbolism in its media productions and operations . The Nigerian press noted with alarm last July that Boko Haram militants had been seen raising ISIS ' rayat al-uqab flag along the Nigerian-Cameroon border . Recent videos have featured the same flag . CNN 's Tim Lister contributed to this report .
A video posted by Boko Haram shows the apparent beheading of two men . The video is similar in style and content to beheading videos posted by ISIS . Comment: Boko Haram is leaning toward ISIS , '' says an expert who monitors Boko Haram .