New Video: Al-Qaida's "Convoy of Martyrs" in Iraq
By Evan Kohlmann
The propaganda video "Convoy of Martyrs" that was produced by Al-Qaida's "Mujahideen Shura Council" (the precursor to the current "Islamic State of Iraq") in late 2006 has finally been publicly released. The video includes interviews with many foreign jihadists fighting for Al-Qaida in Iraq--mostly of Saudi and Syrian origin. In a recorded plea to his family, one young man from the Arabian Peninsula, Abu Nasser al-Janoobi, admonishes his brother, "I beg you to depart for the land of honor and manhood. Don't just sit there and stay behind, and don't listen to anyone who tries to stop you. Just go and kill the Americans. Just kill them and don't leave any survivors." Another Saudi national, Abul-Abbas al-Jeddawi, shows off an explosives-packed suicide car bomb and explains jubilantly, "At the end [of the wire], you can see the button which I will press on my way to paradise."
Video: Click to view excerpts from Al-Qaida's "Convoy of Martyrs" in Iraq
See also: Video - "The Role of Foreign Fighters in the Iraqi Jihad" (NEFA Foundation)
- Biography of Sudanese nationals Hassan Abdel Rahman and Sadiq al-Jilani
- Biography of Yemeni national Abu al-Mardiyah al-Yemeni
- "State of the Sunni Insurgency in Iraq: 2006" (Report and Chart)
- [NEW YORK TIMES]: "The Ever-Mutating Iraq Insurgency"
- (November 2006) - Saudi Arabian Prison Escapees Killed in Iraq
