Al-Qaida release video of attack on alleged military position

Al-Qaida today posted a video showing what it claimed to be an attack by its fighters seizing a US-Afghan post in southern Afghanistan, in what experts said was a step-up in the terror group’s increasingly sophisticated propaganda.

Al-Qaida release video of attack on alleged military position

Al-Qaida today posted a video showing what it claimed to be an attack by its fighters seizing a US-Afghan post in southern Afghanistan, in what experts said was a step-up in the terror group’s increasingly sophisticated propaganda.

The 24-minute video, with an English narration apparently by an American al Qaida member – depicts the alleged attack from beginning to end – showing fighters scouting out the base, planning the attack, carrying out a night battle, then being “welcomed as liberators” by people depicted as local Afghans.

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