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The Mujahedeen group in Bangladesh released a four-part propagandist video under the title of “Worship God and Avoid Evil.”

The released version is an English translation of a previous release in Bengali. The release coincides with the international media’s attention being focused on the mutiny staged by the Bengali paramilitary border guards, in which 74 civilians and army officers were killed.

Al Ansar Media Foundation released a video of a car suicide bomb attack on a gathering of the members of the Kurdish Peshmerga militia in the village of Khorsabad, 15 kilometres northeast of Mosul.

According to the video, the attack was executed by a 23-year man identified as Abu Hamza al Ansari. The 12-minute video was produced in 2008.

Al Ansar media is the mouthpiece of an insurgent group called Ansar al Islam.

Children as young as four or five years old were shown undergoing military training in a new video released by the Islamic Jihad Union (IJU), a militant Uzbek group based in Pakistan’s tribal area.

The 30-minute tape contains old and new footage showing children between four and 12 years old attending a religious school and undergoing military training, which included general fitness training, boxing, wrestling and weapons training. It also featured a graduation ceremony for two students who were seen awarded a white turban, seemingly a sign that they’ve become qualified “mujaheddin.”

The video is part of a series that the group calls “Badr Attawheed” and is entitled “Madrassas.”

The IJU was founded by fighters from the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan in 2002 in Pakistan’s Tribal Areas. In 2005, it got closer to al-Qaeda and began plotting terror attacks in Pakistan. Based in Mirali in South Waziristan, the IJU is known for attracting Western recruits, mainly from Turkey, Turkish communities in Western Europe, but also Muslim converts from Europe.

A lengthy video produced by Jamaat ul Mujahideen in Bangladesh (JMB) has been posted on the Mujaheddin Internet Forum. The video, entitled “Worship God and Avoid Taghoot” is almost two hours and 30 minutes long and aims to create awareness about the group, its goals and activities. The group’s main objective as clear in the video is to remove the current Bengali regime and replace it with an Islamic State based on Islamic law.

Excerpts from old video statements by al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden, al Qaeda in Iraq former leader Abu Mus’ab al Zarqawi and other militant Islamist leaders were featured in the tape along with footage of Taliban fighters from Waziristan, and footage of al Farouq Camp in Afghanistan.

The video also showed pictures from the group’s training camp called “Ataur Rahman Sunny Brigades Camp,” which was named after the group’s military commander, who was sentenced to death and executed on in 2007 together with five other top JMB leaders, including his older brother Maulana Abdur Rahman and Bangla Bhati.

(JMB) is one of the two main Radical Islamic semi political movements in Bangladesh . The organization was founded in 1998 in Dhaka by Maulana Abdur Rahman and Bangla Bhati. and preached a Salafist doctrine of Islam. Jamaat-Ul-Mujahideen referred to the Taliban regime in Afghanistan as a right model for Bangladesh .

The organization became noticed widely in Bangladesh when in May of 2005 25 petrol bombs and documents detailing the activities of the organization were discovered and eight of its members were arrested in Parbatipur, Bangladesh .

After a few attacks on NGOs’ offices in Bangladesh in 2005, JMB was officially banned by the government of Bangladesh, but it managed to continue operating illegally.

A Kurdish group called “The Kurdistan Liberation Army” released an Internet statement pledging allegiance to Saddam's former deputy and the current Supreme Commander of the Jihad and Liberation Council Izzet Ibrahim al Doury.
“We pledge before God, and before you, that we shall be one of your brave armies fighting the American occupation and its traitor agents,” said the statement.

A video showing a member of the U.A.E royal family torturing a man in a desert area, has been widely circulated on the Internet. Sheikh Issa Ben Zayed Al Nahyan, the brother of the U.A.E.’s president Abu Dhabi ’s crown prince, is seen in the video beating, slapping and putting the man’s face in the sand. At one point the prince asks a policeman to help him restrain his victim. It appears that the man in the video had been involved in a business venture with the prince.

An interview with one of the three Indonesian militants on death row for the 2002 Bali bombings was posted on militant Islamist Internet forums Wednesday because it was“censored” by the Arab news station al Jazeera, said the accompanying introductory message. Ali Ghufran, also known as Abu Osama the Indonesian, was seen making his statement in front of a microphone bearing al Jazeera’s logo.

Ghufran addressed his nine-minute statement to the “mujaheddin leaders,” including al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden, the Islamic State of Iraq’s leader Abu Omar al Baghdadi as well as “the leaders of jihad in America and Europe.” He urged them to fight “American infidels and their allies” and called on militant Islamist groups to unite under the leadership of bin Laden.

The nine-minute interview is entitled “To the Mujaheddin Leaders”

Al-Tawbah forum (Indonesian Jihadi Forum), in cooperation with al-Ekhlaas network, released today a 9:11 video statement entitled: “To the Mujahideen Leaders,” by Ali Ghufran, one of three Islamic militants on death row for the 2002 Bali bombings.
“Eevery group of mujahideen, currently fighting against the apostates of America and their criminal allies, should join the ranks of al Qaeda organization, under the leadership of the Sheikh and tutor, Abu Abdullah, Osama bin Laden,” stated Ghufran.

There was no indication of the date of the statement. Al Jazeera mentioned interviewing the Bali bombers in January 2008, but never aired their statements.