Islamist Video - Celebrations of the Establishment of the Islamic State in Iraq

On January 24, 2007, Islamist websites posted a 43-minute video titled "The Muslims' Joy at the Establishment of the State of the Monotheists," produced by the Islamic State's media company Al-Furqan.

The video shows a convoy of armed mujahideen and masked men traveling through the various regions of "the Islamic State in Iraq," among them Baghdad, Diyala, Mosul, Al-Anbar, and Al-Ramadi. In addition, the mujahideen are shown celebrating, together with the residents of these regions, the establishment of the Islamic State.

The video also shows several ceremonies in which jihad fighters and civilians take an oath of allegiance to the leader of the Islamic State of Iraq, Abu Omar Al-Baghdadi. In Mosul, masked mujahideen are shown handing out flyers with the oath of allegiance to Al-Baghdadi and audio cassettes in which Abu Hamza Al-Muhajir swears allegiance to him. The celebrators wave the flags of "The Shura Council of the Mujahideen" and banners bearing the slogan "There is no God but Allah." They also carry various placards, among them one saying: "Death to the Americans, to the British, and to the criminal Shi'ites."

In addition, the video presents excerpts from speeches by bin Laden and Al-Zarqawi and sound clips from Abu Omar Al-Baghdadi, who says: "The enemy claimed that the Al-Qaeda Organization has taken over Al-Anbar and has become popular, but Al-Qaeda is just one of the factions in the Islamic State."

The video ends with an excerpt from a speech by Al-Zawahiri in which he congratulates the mujahideen in Iraq upon the establishment of the Islamic State, and urges mujahideen in Iraq to join "this blessed convoy, in order to rescue Iraq and the Caliphate from the Crusaders and their traitorous supporters…"

The video can be viewed at: http://switch3.castup.net/cunet/gm.asp?ClipMediaID=491699&ak=null.

Below are images from the video:

Message on Islamist Forum: PWC Logistics is Transporting Supplies to the U.S. Army in Iraq

A message posted January 25, 2007 on an Islamist website claimed that the PWC Logistics company is transporting vehicles and other supplies to the U.S. military in Iraq. The website gave the address, email address, and phone number of the company's offices in Kuwait.

Below is the front page of the website of the company's Kuwaiti branch.