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Video of Jihad Fighters Firing on "Motorcade of American Intelligence [Personnel]"

On November 26, 2006, Islamist websites posted a nine-minute video titled "American Intelligence on the Streets of Baghdad." The video, produced by Al-Furqan, the production company of "the Media Ministry of the Islamic State of Iraq," includes three scenes. In each, several masked jihad fighters are seen crouching on a highway overpass and opening fire on vehicles below, which are claimed to be "a motorcade of American Intelligence [personnel]." The footage is accompanied by jihad songs and by excerpts from audio recordings by Al-Zarqawi and other sheikhs calling to join the jihad. The lyrics of one of the songs says: "We will liberate the faith with blood. Raise your weapon, defend the faith, make war break out... We will defy our enemies, defy [them] with our Koran."

Below are images from the video:

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