[ADN Kronos] A documentary-style video from Al-Qaeda's North African branch released on the Internet shows children promoting jihad or holy war and inviting others to join them. The video also contains footage of previous messages by Osama bin Laden, Ayman al-Zawahiri and Abu Yahya al-Libi. At the end of the video, three children raise their fists in the air. The eldest child, who calls himself Abu Dajana Sufiyan says: "I am a mujahid, (a Muslim who is engages in jihad) son of a mujahid, and I tell all Muslims and particularly young Muslims to fight against the Crusaders and their heretic allies."
Abu Dajana, who presumably is 13 years old is shown in the video with two other very young children, one who calls himself Osama and another who calls himself Muadh Abdel Salam. All three are seen holding rifles.
It is presumed from the video that the other children are sons of other militants that have been operating for years in the ranks of Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb and who are hiding in the caves in the mountainous areas of Algeria. This would confirm recent Algerian media reports about the decision of militants to bring their wives to their hiding places in the mountains.
The presence of families among Al-Qaeda's mujahideen could be a means to counter recent reports that some terrorist turncoats have spoken of sexual violence by local 'emirs' against young female recruits as well as the rampant spread of homosexuality among isolated cells.
The video also shows testimony from seven suicide bombers who carried out attacks last year, among them the testimony of Al-Qaeda's oldest militant, 64-year-old Abu Uthman Ibrahim. Abu Uthman is responsible for an attack against the headquarters of the United Nations refugee agency in the Algerian capital Algiers in December 2007 during which he drove a truck bomb containing over 800 kilogrammes of explosive material. More than 60 people died in that attack.