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A new video showing unseen pictures of slain al Qaeda-in-Iraq leader Abu Mus’ab al Zarqawi was distributed on the Internet today. Al Zarqawi appeared briefly and was surrounded by a few masked men. It seems he was preparing to address a small group of gunmen gathered in the courtyard of a school. The tape is from 2003-2004, as the banner shown in the video was that of al Tawheed and Jihad, the name of the group founded by al Zarqawi prior to his admission into al Qaeda in late 2004.

The Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan (IMU) released a new video that included statements in German by two operatives identified as Abu Ibraheem and Abu Adam. The two militants are German brothers of Moroccan descent from Bonn and had been recently identified by German authorities as Mounir and Yassim C.

Abu Adam had appeared with his brother in a video released last January.

The 14-minute tape is entitled “God’s Soldiers” and was released by the group’s media wing Jundullah Studios. It also contains footage of fighters from other countries, including Turkmenistan, China, Russia and Tajikistan. One of the members shown looked as young as 14 years old.

This tape also included shots of some operations undertaken by the group and the aftermath of the attack on the NATO supply trucks depot in Peshawar, as well as pictures showing Orakzai Commander Hakimullah Mehsud driving a stolen Humvee with some of his men sitting on the roof of the vehicle.

It also included footage of the aftermath of the attack on the German embassy in Kabul back in January.

There were also shots of the Jundullah Studios, where the group’s editors were shown working diligently at their computers.

The Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan (IMU) was formed in 1998 by former Soviet paratrooper Juma Namangani and the Islamic ideologue Tohir Yuldashev, both Uzbeks from the Fergana Valley. Their objective was to overthrow President Islam Karimov of Uzbekistan and create an Islamic state The group is known to be an al Qaeda and Taliban ally, fighting in pockets along the Afghan-Pakistani border.

Videos recently shown by the group reflect a greater involvement of operatives from Germany in the group’s activities.

A former prisoner at the U.S. prison in Guantanamo appeared in a video produced by the pro-al Qaeda “al Yaqeen Media Center” and spoke about his experience over there.

In the 38-minute interview which was posted on militant Islamist website, the Algerian national Mahdi Ghazali said Pakistani tribes had handed him over to the Pakistani army, which in turn sold him to the U.S. army.

He said he was then transferred to the Kandahar airbase where he was interrogated and held for 15 days, before he was transferred to the prison in Guantanamo. Mahdi recalled his days in detention and said that some of the guards treated him with respect and compassion.

A German-speaking member of the Islamic Movement in Uzbekistan appeared in a new video urging Muslims in Germany to join the fighting in Afghanistan. The man was identified as “Abu Adam From Germany” and appeared in a video released by Jundullah Media entitled “Good News From Afghanistan.”

The leader of the group, Mohammed Taher Farouq, also appears making a speech which was dubbed in German. Farouq had threatened attacks against a number of Western and Asian capitals in a video released in December 2007.

The video also includes footage of the militants in mountainous areas, as well as aftermath pictures of a number of attacks against Afghan forces and pictures of militants driving around in 13-vehicle convoy of pick-up trucks and other vehicles apparently seized from NATO or local government forces.

The video also featured short speeches by a number of other militants, who all spoke in English.

A video posted on a website linked to Chechen Islamist militants showed four women who have taken up arms and joined the men in the fight against Russian forces. Three of the four women were dressed in military uniforms, while the fourth was wearing an all-black outfit, similar to the one worn by a group of widows whose husbands had been killed in the war with Russia and who had decided to become suicide bombers to avenge them.

The four women in the video were shown sitting next to each other in a forest camp with a machine gun in the hands of each one of them as they addressed the camera in Russian.

American al Qaeda figure Adam Gadahn criticized Pakistanʼs new leaders in a video posted on the Internet by the terror organizationʼs mouthpiece al Sahab on Saturday. Gadahnʼs appearance puts an end to speculation by some analysts about him being killed in a U.S. airstrike. The release comes two days after al Qaeda attacked the Pakistani government in another video released by al Sahab.

A child who had appeared in a militant propaganda video released last April showing children undergoing training at a camp in Waziristan has been killed during the Islamic Jihad Union’s (IJU) operations against coalition forces in Afghanistan, according a new video released by the Uzbek militant group today. The body of the child appeared in a 30-minute video that paid tribute to militants killed during the group’s operations.

The group also issued two other videos. One video is nearly an hour long and shows a series of mortar/rocket attacks targeting US bases in Paktika. The group, which is believed to have close ties to al Qaeda, said some of the attacks had been carried out in coordination with the Taliban. The video was made with Arabic, German and Russian subtitles.

The other video showed an operation carried out by the group, where they launched a rocket attack on what they said was a U.S. base in Afghanistan.

IJU, which is also known as lso known as the Islamic Jihad Group, was recently linked to the plot to attack Frankfurt’s airport and the U.S. military airbase at Ramstein in Germany last September.