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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.

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.

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.

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 Ansar al Sunna released a new video showing a grad type missile fired at the U.S. Embassy in the green zone. The group did not give the date of the attack.

The militant Afghani Taliban movement claimed responsibility for the attack that killed one U.S. soldier and one Afghan civilian outside Kabul Wednesday.

The group’s spokesperson Zabihullah Mujahid wrote in the statement posted on the group’s website that Taliban fighters carried out the attack on the Kabul-Bagram highway in Dahsabz district, using a remote controlled landmine. According to the statement, the landmine destroyed the two U.S. army vehicles and killed 14 U.S. soldiers.

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.

"Robert Gates is daydreaming,” is what the Taliban spokesperson Mohammed Yucef Ahmadi’s said in response to a question about the appointment of a new top Commander for Afghanistan.

“Americans have completely lost their way to victory in Afghanistan. They are becoming more desperate and lose hope by the day, and that’s why they rush to make such changes and new appointments,” he added.

Ahmadi argued that the U.S. strategies for Afghanistan have all ended in failure over the past few years. “They changed and substituted their military commanders several times in the past few years. Each commander claims that he’s got new plans and new war-fighting concepts, but very soon it becomes clear to them that this battle in not one to be won,” he said.

Ahmadi claimed that the Taliban’s victory was imminent and that the U.S. will soon come to the realization that all the changes they’re making could not change this reality. “They will have to admit it, just like the former Soviet Union did,” concluded Ahmadi.