Insurgent material found in Iraq

A look at some insurgent-linked material recovered by the U.S. military in Iraq:

Dec. 8, 2007: In Muqdadiyah, north of Baghdad, U.S. troops find an Arabic movie script that includes scenes of terrorists training children, and children interrogating and executing victims.

June 16, 2007: U.S. military discloses it found the identification cards for two missing soldiers in an al-Qaida safe house near Samarra, more than 100 miles north of where they were last seen May 12. The vacant house contained video production equipment, computers and weapons.

June 2006: U.S. military finds what it later called a “treasure trove” of information from safe houses after a U.S. airstrike June 7, 2006, killed al-Qaida-linked Jordanian militant Abu Musab al-Zarqawi northeast of Baghdad. Among the items is an 11-page letter dated from mid-December 2005 cautioning al-Zarqawi against the war he had declared on Shiite Muslims.

April 2006: U.S. military obtains videos that show al-Zarqawi looking confused as he tries to fire an automatic rifle that jams. Al-Qaida in Iraq posted an edited version of the same video on a Web site April 25, but without the embarrassing segments.

October 2005: The U.S. military says it intercepted a 13-page typed letter from al-Qaida deputy leader Ayman al-Zawahri to al-Zarqawi outlining plans to force a U.S. withdrawal from Iraq, create an Islamic state there and spread jihad beyond Iraq. Al-Qaida posted a statement on an Islamic Web site that the letter, dated July 9, 2005, was a U.S.-crafted fake.

Source: Associated Press