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November 10, 2004

Jeremy Reynalds
P O Box 27693
Alb., NM 87125-7693
Tel: (505) 400-7145
www.joyjunction.org

Courtesy of Yahoo, "Fallujah Liberation Brigade" provides Video of "Martyrdom Attack against British Dogs."

    Radical Islamic web sites and bulletin boards tell a vastly different story than the one being told by mainstream media outlets about the liberation of Fallujah from insurgents and they're using video to back up their claims.

    One Yahoo sponsored group is called "Fallujah Liberation Brigade." Founded on April 30 2004 it boasts 13 members, nine of whom have joined in the last seven days.

    A recent message from the group ( http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Fallujah_liberation_brigade/message/15 ) is titled "Greeting from Iraq: Martyrdom Attack against British Dogs."

    Quoting from a British Broadcasting (BBC) report the message reads, "Their lies from BBC: "Two British soldiers from the Black Watch battle group stationed at Camp Dogwood, 20 miles (32km) from Baghdad, were seriously injured in a suicide attack."

    The originator of the message then says the "truth" can be found in the visual message contained in a video (unsubstantiated) available for download ( http://stv.zive.net/nup/source/up0032.zip ).

       The approximately four- minute sometimes grainy video which features chanting, music and a narrator speaking in Arabic, shows a car driving along a road. There is a tower – perhaps a water tank – in the background.

    The car blows up by a military convoy and plumes of smoke are seen billowing over the horizon. The narrator can be heard saying "Allah Akbar," (praise be to Allah). A helicopter is shown flying over the scene of devastation.

    The video shifts to poor quality footage of what appears to be mutilated bodies with a blood red color in the background. The scene then becomes clearer and an individual steps into the picture. He kicks a severed hand and forearm lying on the ground. He steps on the hand, which has formed into a clenched fist, and the video ends.



    Another group message, ( http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Fallujah_liberation_brigade/message/10 ), from "Amir" and not attributed to any news agency read in part that leaders of the Council of Mujahideen of Fallujah say that as part of their "information struggle against the US occupation troops," so-called "resistance fighters" have filmed prisoners being held by insurgents inside Fallujah.

A Picture on the Fallujah Liberation Brigade Yahoo Site

     The statement reads (sic), "The prisoners who were filmed numbered 36 and included some US women soldiers. All were captured in Fallujah's industrial zone Monday morning. Abu Asad, President of the Council of Mujahideen of Fallujah, announced to Mafkarat al-Islam's correspondent that after filming the American prisoners, they gave the film to the al-Jazeera and al- `Arabiyah satellite TV stations. The two stations, however, refused to broadcast the tape for ‘security reasons.' In fact they were afraid of American reprisals against the their stations if they were to broadcast the videotapes, as previously happened to al-Jazeera after they showed film of US prisoners at the start of the US invasion of Iraq in 2003."

     The writer says that is no excuse for these news agencies who claim to be "impartial." The writer says he expects the video footage to be soon available on the Internet.

    In another portion of the message, the writer claims that more than 100 Iraqi national guardsmen have given themselves up to the insurgents (sic) "and tried to explain why they were there to begin with. They informed the mujahideen that they were misled by the Americans in that they were not told about their expected major role in a full scale attack on Fallujah but rather that they would be engaged in military maneuvers there."

Another Picture on the Fallujah Liberation Brigade Yahoo Site

     The introduction ( http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Fallujah_liberation_brigade ) to this group reads (sic), "In April 2004 a few good men revolted in the Iraqi city Fallujah against the mighty US Army. These brave men, later called mujahedin by the local population, took control of the city. The American forces tried but never succeeded in capturing Fallujah. The mujahedin of Fallujah had no names. There were no groups and no nationalities. They were Muslims. Fallujah became a legend and this group will try to keep that legend alive and promote it. We also support the Iraqi struggle for liberation. We are against the American occupation. Long live Fallujah."