On November 28, 2006, the Islamic State of Iraq released a communiqué, via various Islamist websites, in which it claimed responsibility for the November 27 downing of an American F-16 fighter jet approximately 20 miles northwest of Baghdad. According to the message, the operation, a joint effort of the mujahideen of the Islamic State of Iraq and members of Jaysh Al-Mujahideen, followed recent instructions from Abu 'Omar Al-Baghdadi, the declared leader of the Islamic State in Iraq, to increase attacks on the "Crusaders' combat forces [in Iraq] and especially… their airplanes and helicopters."

On November 27, 2006, a Chechen website supportive of the mujahideen announced the death of Abu Hafs Al-Urduni, a Jordanian-born jihad fighter described in the message as "a commander [of the mujahideen] in Chechnya." According to the message, Abu Hafs was killed Sunday, November 26, 2006, in a battle with Russian commando units. It should be noted that on October 16, 2006, Islamist websites posted a video in which Abu Hafs addressed the Muslims on the occasion of 'Eid Al-Fitr.

On November 21, 2006, various Islamist websites posted two announcements by the mujahideen in Lebanon pertaining to the assassination of Pierre Gemayel, a Lebanese cabinet minister and a strong opponent of Syrian influence in Lebanon. In the first message, the group depicts the assassination as a step in the greater plan of Hizbullah and the 'Alawi regime [i.e. Syria] to topple the Lebanese government.

In the second announcement, titled "There Will Be No [Political] Entity for the Shi'ites on Lebanese Soil," the group warns the Sunnis in Lebanon:

On November 19, 2006, Islamist websites posted a statement by the Islamic Army in Iraq denouncing the Iraqi government's decision to arrest prominent Sunni cleric Sheikh Hareth Al-Dhari, whom the statement says is secretary-general of the Association of Muslim Scholars in Iraq. The statement calls the decision to arrest Al-Dhari an offense to Sunnis and a blow to anyone striving to achieve national reconciliation under the difficult circumstances prevailing in Iraq.

"This confirms what we have been saying all along - namely, that waging jihad against these Shi'ites is the only solution..."

On November 19, 2006, an Islamist website posted a statement by a group calling itself "The Mujahideen in Lebanon" accusing Hizbullah of attempting to wipe out Lebanese Sunnis and eradicate Sunni Islam in Lebanon. The statement says: "Death squads have already been formed in Beirut, on the instructions of the Iranian religious authorities. [These death squads], which are an 'Alawi [i.e. Syrian] political import, are waiting for the moment... to [start] killing our people and destroying [our] mosques, as is happening in Iraq on a daily basis."

The statement then urges Sunnis in Lebanon to prepare for confrontation with Shi'ite hostility, saying: "Today they [i.e. Hizbullah] wish to take over Lebanon by joining forces with the Crusaders of Lebanon, in order to completely eliminate the Sunni sect [in the country]. The Shi'ites must know that we are ready to stop them..."