Child Seen Pledging To Wage War on "Worshippers of The Cross" In New AQIM Video
The video was released to pay tribute to a group of operatives who carried out suicide attacks in Algeria over the past year.
The one-hour and a half video is entitled "Lovers of the Hoors II" and includes the final statements of a number of suicide bombers. One of them is Mohammed Abu Sajda, an Algerian suicide bomber in his twenties, who had blown his car bomb into a military outpost in Boumerdes last August. Abu Sajda is seen addressing a group of would-be-suicide bombers, explaining to them the strategy of how not to chicken out and turn their attack into a successful suicide mission.
"You are on your way to do a (big) job. From here I shall go on with my martyrdom operation and shall blow up my truck, and you too, you shall kill them so don't be afraid," he is seen saying.
The video also showed excerpts from the final wills of Abu Uthman and Abdul Rahman Abu Abdul Nasser, two suicide bombers who rammed their explosives-laden trucks into the U.N. and the constitutional council's buildings in the Algerian capital Algiers in December 2007
The video also mentions two suicide bombers identified as Yucef Bu Basir, and Ibrahim Ladham, who had attacked together a military outpost in the Algerian capital using explosive belts, a technique which is not commonly used by the group.
It also included the will of Abu Bara Abdel Malik, a suicide bomber who blew his car bomb into a military patrol in al Bweira area. The tape also included scenes of the bomb-preparation process.
The video also shows excerpts from previously seen militant Islamist videos from Algeria, Somalia and Chechnya as well as a number of old statement by some terrorist leaders like al Qaeda leaders Osama Bin Laden and Ayman al Zawahri.