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The militant Afghani Taliban movement released a video of recent clashes between the Pakistani Taliban Movement and the Pakistani army.

The video also includes footage of suicide operations, attacks on Pakistani army outpost, executions of “traitors,” including one beheading, as well as shots militants during training.

The one-hour video is entitled “Swat Three” and is part of a series that the group calls “Hell of Apostates in Swat.” It was produced by a jihadi media outlet called The Global Islamic Media Front (GIMF).

Al Qaeda’s leader Osama bin Laden’s latest audio statement, parts of which were aired by the Arab news network al Jazeera on Wednesday, focused on the situation in Pakistan and criticizing the government of Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari.

The timing of the release of the statement, a day before U.S. President Barack Obama’s much-anticipated speech to Muslims out of Cairo, and Bin Laden’s attacks on Obama in the audio seemed to suggest al Qaeda’s leader’s statement was intended as a pre-reaction to the speech.

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A short video showing “aftermath pictures” of the fighting in Swat valley was posted on a number of militant Islamist Internet forums. The five-minute video shows wreckage of Pakistani army vessels and bodies scattered around the streets.

Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) claimed responsibility for the suicide attack that killed 30 people on Wednesday in Lahore.

The Internet statement said a member of Tehrik-i-Taliban Penjab in Lahore loaded his truck with 100kg of explosives and drove it into a building belonging to a Pakistani security and intelligence agency building. The statement said the attack comes in response to the military operation launched against the Taliban in the Swat valley.

The group called the attack a “humble gift to the mujahideen who suffer under the strikes of Pakistani forces in Swat valley.”

The group also warned that there will be similar attacks to come. “We call upon all Muslims in Pakistan to stay away from areas where the enemy is present, so that they are not be harmed by jihadi attacks,” said the statement.

A video posted on a jihadi Internet forum today showed a suicide attack on an alleged Pakistani army outpost in the tribal region of Waziristan.
The date of the attack is unknown. The 10-minute Urdu video identified the attacker as “Yucef.”
The video also includes the usual propaganda footage at the beginning and criticizes the Pakistani army for collaborating with the United Stated.

Hizb ut-Tahrir in Pakistan announce in a press release the launch of a campaign aimed at “stopping the civil war instigated by the Pakistani government in Swat valley, to serve the interests of the United States in Afghanistan.”

“Hizb ut-Tahrir condemns the Pakistani governments’ efforts to save America at the expense of Muslims, and has thus decided to launch a nationwide campaign to mobilize the population to work on stopping the American proxy war fought by the Pakistani army,” the statement said.

The party also called for an end of the war and for stopping the partaking of Pakistani forces in what it called “Obama’s failed Crusades.” It also called for an end of the U.S. military presence in Pakistan and urged Pakistani soldiers to rebel against their leadership.

A member of a militant Islamist website suggested Taliban militants in Pakistan should launch attacks in India to get some relief from the attacks waged against them by Pakistani forces in SWAT valley.

“Wage any attack in India, in a football stadium or a market,” suggested Kasser Sanam, who titled his message “Urgent Message to the Mujahideen in Pakistan.”

Senior al Qaeda leader Abu Yehya al Libi released a new study about the political developments in Pakistan over the past decade. Al Libi concluded that the Pakistani had become part of what he called “the infidel coalition.” “Its army, intelligence and police now constitute the tip of the spear taking part in tearing our Muslim nation apart,” he wrote.

Al Libi thus decreed that it has become a duty on Muslims in Pakistan to fight against the Pakistani forces and work on overthrowing the government and replacing it with a religious authority that establishes the rule of Islam.

Al Libi said removing the current government was a religious duty and argued that it would not be possible except through fighting the army and the intelligence services.

The 30-page study was released by Al Fajr Media and is entitled “The Sharpened Sword To Fight Against The Government and Army of Pakistan.”

Al Libi had issued an appeal to a group of prominent Muslim scholars to issue religious edicts legitimizing “jihad” in Muslim countries such as Afghanistan, Iraq, Somalia and Eastern Turkistan in a videotape released by As Sahab Media on April 21st.

A Pakistani anti-Taliban online group released eight videos showing atrocities committed by members of Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan group. Islamabad Observer claimed the videos were all new ones that were leaked to them.

Most of the videos showed graphic pictures of beheadings and executions of Pakistani troops and “spies.” The videos were produced by different media outlets.

One of the videos showed a public execution of a man that featured in a Sky News report that was broadcasted last month. Sky News had reported at the time that the tape was handed to them.

Other videos showed a compilation of sniper attacks, which are an unusual method of attack for the Taliban, and a suicide attack carried out by a teenage suicide bomber.

A scroll across the screen on most videos read, “This video is shown only to expose the true face of the militants occupying areas of Pakistan. The videos were made by Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP). Please help Pakistan get rid of those people. Talibanization is spreading very quickly all over the country. Please support us because if we fall, everyone will fall to them.”

short video by Pakistani Taliban posted on a number of militant Islamist Internet forums showed footage from a training camp by Taliban’s Shaheen Commandos.

Shaheen Commandos is the army of Taliban commander Maulana Fazlullah, the son-in-law of TTP leader Maulana Sufi Muhammad. Fazlullah had declared war on the government shortly after the siege and clash with the government at Lal Mosque in July of 2007. The Shaheen Commandos now control the city of Matta in Swat.

This video was produced by an organization called Fateh Studio. It’s about one minute long, but I suspect it’s just asmall bit from a longer video that is yet to be released.