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CAIRO, EGYPT - In a new video posted Thursday on the Internet, an al-Qaida militant who escaped from a U.S. prison in Afghanistan urged Sunni militants in Iraq to join the terror group and claimed the U.S. military's security plan for Baghdad has failed. Abu Yahia al-Libi, who broke out of the U.S. prison at Bagram Air Base north of Kabul in 2005, said it was the sacred duty of all mujahedeen, or holy warriors, to "stand steadfast together." He called on militant groups known as Ansar al-Sunnah, the Islamic Army in Iraq and the Army of the Mujahedeen to...

Globalterroralert.com 10/21/04http://www.globalterroralert.com/ansarsunnah1004-4.pdf "Those of us from the Ansar Al-Sunnah Army celebrate and congratulate the Muslims and all of our mujahideen brothers in the Tawheed wal-Jihad Movement on the occasion of their inclusion on the list of terrorists... Praise be to Allah, it increased the joy in our hearts that John Kerry, the presidential candidate, has criticized the Bush government for taking so long in making this declaration. The one who may become the president of America is already struck with terror by our brothers from the Tawheed wal-Jihad Movement. The repeated attacks that have targeted the evil Bush are now...

March 10, 2006: New Ansar al Sunnah Army Video: Terrorists in Schools by Laura Mansfield It would seem to be every parent's nightmare: several masked jihadis go into a school and indoctrinate the children with jihadi propaganda. But a new video called Lions of Ramadi released this morning by the Ansar al Sunnah Army in Iraq shows just that. A twelve-minute clip from the hour-long video shows the masked jihadis going into two classrooms in Ramadi, Iraq, handing out CDs, books, and candy to the children, and then inviting the children to recite Qu'ran and sing jihadi anthems. The children...

A MASS grave containing the bodies of 22 people believed to have been killed during a failed Shiite uprising against Saddam Hussein in 1991 has been found near one of Iraq's holiest cities, security officials said overnight. The discovery was revealed as Iraq remained shrouded in political uncertainty following the December election, with Sunni Arab leaders angry over a decision to annul less than 1 per cent of the votes because of fraud, although they did not rule out taking part in the new government. At least 12 people were killed in attacks across the country, including seven workers slain...

Materials confiscated during an early morning raid on a suspected Ansar Al-Sunnah cell in Kirkuk Sept. 23. The raid netted a total of 14 suspected terrorists. FOB WARRIOR, Iraq—Iraqi police and coalition forces detained 14 individuals suspected to be linked to Islamic terrorist group Ansar Al-Sunnah in Kirkuk Sept. 23. The Ansar Al-Sunnah organization has claimed responsibility for many of the area’s terrorist acts against Iraqi civilians and Iraqi and coalition security forces, including suicide bomb and improvised explosive device attacks. The early-morning raid was targeted at several houses in the southern Kirkuk neighborhood known as Al Rashid. “The...

CAIRO, Egypt (AP) - A militant group posted a video on the Web on Wednesday showing gunmen killing execution-style two Iraqis said to have set up an Internet system in northern Iraq to help in this month's elections. The two men are shown in the video kneeling blindfolded next to a stone wall before being shot in the head. "This is the end of any apostate who cooperates with the crusader troops in Iraq in their war against Islam," the militant group Ansar al-Sunnah Army said in a statement screened on the video after the slaying. The group accused the...

BAGHDAD, Iraq - The Ansar al-Sunnah Army has emerged from its roots as a little known militant group operating in northern Iraq to become the country’s deadliest terror network, capable of carrying out spectacular strikes like last week’s suicide bombing at a U.S. base and virtually eclipsing al-Qaida’s cell in the war-torn nation. Unlike al-Qaida, Ansar al-Sunnah is believed to be made up mainly of Iraqis, and its apparent strategy of targeting only Americans and those viewed as collaborating with them — Iraqi security forces and Kurds — may have increased its support, in contrast to other groups that have...

Al-Zawra, the Iraqi Journalists Union newspaper, published "Who Kills Hostages in Iraq?" by Samir Addad and Mazin Ghazi on 19 September. A text in English has been released by BBC Monitoring International Reports. The article reports on the armed groups that are involved in violent resistance in Iraq, dividing the resistance into three categories: the Sunni resistance groups the Shi'i resistance groupsFactions abducting and killing.Below is an outline of the groups in these three categories: The main Sunni resistance groups The Iraqi National Islamic Resistance, "The 1920 Revolution Brigades" TARGETS: U.S. soldiersORIGIN: emerged on 16 July 2003GOAL: Expulsion of...

http://www.globalterroralert.com/ansarsunnah-nepal.pdfGlobalterroralert.com (8/22/04): The Ansar al-Sunnah Army in Iraq has published fourteen photos that allegedly depict a dozen captives taken within the past few days from among a group of Nepalese contract workers. In a statement published on August 21, Ansar al-Sunnah had explained, "these infidels carried out contracting work for the crusader American forces, and thus they aided and supported them in their fight against Islam and its people"