In a TV interview, Swedish-Algerian journalist Yahya Abu Zakariya said that the first to slaughter humans were the Americans. "They were the ones who taught the world how to slit throats," he said in the interview, which aired on August 22, 2014 on the Lebanese NBN TV channel. "They would scrape out the skull, scoop out the brain, and turn the skull into a drinking cup," said Abu Zakariya, a TV host on the Lebanese Mayadeen TV channel.