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The Iraqi insurgent group Ansar al Islam released a short video showing three of its members allegedly targeting the U.S. Base at Mosul airport with a makeshift missile. The video shows the militants firing the missiles, but does not include footage of the actual attack. The statement accompanying the video claims the target had been hit.

The video was produced by the group’s media wing Al Ansar Media Foundation.

The Taliban’s media outlet Neda al Jihad released a new video of attacks carried out by the militant group against a NATO base in the “Zumyobileh-Nuristan area” last year.

The 55-minute video is entitled “Defeat of the Aggressors in Afghanistan” and opens with pictures from previous Taliban videos, including the footage of the attempt to assassinate Afghani President Hamid Karzai during a celebration in Kabul on April 27, 2008 and footage of a 2007 ambush on a joint U.S.-Afghan foot patrol in Nuristan.

The group claims to have intensified its attacks on U.S. forces based in this camp for 47 days until they were forced out. The video shows Taliban fighters, dressed in military uniforms, during their preparation for the operation followed by shots of Taliban fighters trying to shoot a Chinook down. The video also shows the militants firing mortars and engaged in a gun battle against the forces inside the base. Several Taliban fighters look like they were badly injured during the fighting.

A local commander called Osman Jawhari was interviewed on the tape. He claims the militants managed to down two helicopters and kill 95 U.S. troops and only 10 Taliban militants were killed. He also told a group of militants that he was confident they would defeat U.S. troops and force them out of Afghanistan. “We shall fight and defeat them here God willing, then we will chase them all the way to Washington,” he says.

Taliban’s former information minister Mohammed Yasser also makes a short statement to honor the militants who have been killed in the clashes. Yasser had been released along with four other Taliban leaders in exchange for the release of an Italian reporter that the Taliban captured in 2007.

A short video produced by al Qaeda’s mouthpiece As Sahab Media and released on the Internet showed a U.S. convoy coming under attack in what the video said was Farah province in western Afghanistan.

The convoy is seen moving on the road, when suddenly an IED explosion detonates not far from the Humvee in the back. The vehicle wasn’t damaged by the explosion whatsoever, but after a few moments of heavy gunshots sound in the background and the camera shaking, the abandoned Humvee is seen in flames on the road. The video ends with pictures of weapons seized from the vehicle.

A short video released by the Iraqi insurgent group the Army of al Mujahedeen shows U.S. soldier shot by a sniper in what the group said was northern Baghdad. The soldier is seen falling on the ground.

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.

The Iraqi insurgent group Ansar al Sunna released a new video today showing an IED attack on an Iraqi ING humvee in al Azzi area in Diala.

The Iraqi insurgent group Shield of Islam released a video of what the group said was a mortar attack on a joint U.S.-Iraqi base western Baghdad.

The Iraqi insurgent group Salahuddine al Ayyoubi Brigades released a short video on the Internet showing operatives firing two mortars on a south Baghdad U.S. army outpost.

The Salahuddine al Ayyoubi Brigades released another short video showing two operatives lying in wait and then hurling two thermal bombs at a U.S. armored vehicle as it travelled through Baghdad’s al Khadraa district.
The message accompanying the video claimed the armored vehicle was destroyed in the attack.

A video posted on the Internet on Monday showed pictures of a missile fired by Taliban militants hitting a Chinook helicopter that hovered in the skies.

The video shows the moment when the missile hits the helicopter and the large flame that spurted out of it from various angles. The video then showed pictures of columns of dark smoke rising from what is thought to be the Chinook, though the video did not include any pictures showing the plane as it crashed. Later on in the video, a helicopter is seen flying really low and lifting some of the soldiers who had been injured in the attack.

The Taliban commander in charge of the Kunar area, Mufti Anwar, was seen making a statement where he pledged to carry out more attacks against U.S. forces. The video then showed aftermath pictures of the attack on a U.S. military convoy with shots of a Humvee and a truck both set alight.

The militants were also shown testing some U.S. weapons that they seized during the attack.

The video closed with shots of an attack on what the group called a “crusaders’ base” where the militants used RPGs and BK antiaircraft guns.

The 37-minute video was released by the militant Islamist media house Nida al Jihad.

Pictures from this video have been aired on al Arabiya Arab news channel last Wednesday.