Salahaldin Al-Ayoubi Brigades Claim To Have Launched Missiles Loaded With Chemicals

The Salahaldin Al-Ayoubi Brigades, the military wing of JAMI, Al Jabha Al-Islamiyya l'il-Muqawama Al-'Iraqiyya, announced via Islamist websites that today, January 10, 2007, it had fired four missiles loaded with chemicals at a U.S. base near Samara, Iraq. The organization posted a film showing militants wearing gas masks and filling the missiles with a liquid which the organization claims are chemicals. Below are images from the film.

To view the film, go to: http://switch3.castup.net/cunet/gm.asp?ClipMediaID=431504&ak=null.

The Islamic State in Iraq Urges Sunnis to Resist the Imminent Attack Against Them by the Iraqi Government

On January 8, 2007, Islamist websites posted an urgent appeal by the Islamic State in Iraq to the Sunnis in Iraq. The appeal discusses first the Al-Maliki government's recently announced "new security plan," calling it another step "in the long Shi'ite campaign to wipe out the Sunnis in Baghdad and to destroy and burn their mosques until the conditions of the Sunnis in Iraq resemble that of the oppressed Sunnis in Iran." The message, then, calls upon the mujahideen in Baghdad "to take precaution, to maintain [their] posts in the streets… and to increase the security around the mosques in order to block the attacks by Shi'ite crime gangs." The message ends by calling upon the general Sunni population to stand behind the mujahideen and to rush to the support of their young state, the Islamic State in Iraq, in order to secure the existence of the Sunnis in Iraq and to [ensure] the implementation of shari'a laws…"

The Islamic Army in Iraq Claims Responsibility for an Airplane Crash Near Balad, Iraq

On January 10, 2007, Islamist websites posted an announcement by the Islamic Army in Iraq in which it claimed to have downed the airplane (operated by a company based in Moldova) which crashed on January 9, 2007. The crash, which occurred approximately two and a half kilometers northwest of Balad, claimed the lives of the 30 Turkish workers who were on board. According to the announcement, "the airplane was about to land in an American base nearby when a military… unit of the Islamic Army opened fired on the airplane… using mid-range weapons and single-barrel machine-guns, leading to its crash…"