Hunting al Qaeda in Iraq’s Propaganda Cells

Published November 28, 2007 5:48pm ET



Image from recently released Al Furqan / Al Qaeda in Iraq execution video. Click to view.

After nearly a two month lull in videos released by Al Furqan, al Qaeda in Iraq’s primary propaganda arm, two new videos of attacks on U.S. forces have been released over the past three days. Al Qaeda in Iraq is attempting to reestablish its propaganda presence in Iraq, while Multinational Forces Iraq is seeking to dismantle the network. “Despite the recent loss of numerous cells across Iraq, the media wing of al-Qaeda’s Islamic State of Iraq (ISI) has produced a second video product, which the al Fajr Media Center posted Tuesday night on the main Jihadi message boards,” Nick Grace of Threatswatch reported. “The one minute video, called ‘Destruction Of An-American Hummer Vehicle,’ is the latest in the ongoing ISI [Islamic State of Iraq] media series ‘Roman and Apostate Hell in al-Rafedain Land’ and, according to the accompanying Web statement, shows an IED attack on a hummer in the az-Zobayer bin al-Awaam region of Diyala Province.” The first video released showed the brutal execution of nine Iraqis, purportedly Shia who served in the Interior Ministry’s police commando unit in Diyala province.

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