CrisisMesh News data, documents, video.

A couple of quick videos from the Iranian armed forces day parade 2007, held on April 18.

Another one from Iraq, apparently from 2004. This shows Iraqi insurgents in a firefight (or taking pot-shots, depending on your perspective) at what I can only assume to be a coalition outpost.

Another video showing presumably Taliban fighters preparing IEDs and packing shrapnel around them.

The Pentagon has released three transcripts of tribunals held for high profile detainees in Guantanamo Bay. In Khalid Sheikh Mohammed’s transcript he claims responsibility for the 1993 WTC operation, the 2001 WTC operation, and the 2002 Bali nightclub bombings - among others.

You can download them as PDFs below.

Khalid Sheikh Mohammed transcript

Abu Faraj al-Libi transcript

Ramzi Bin al-Shibh

Source:CNN

Video footage of the Garuda Indonesia Flight 200 crash. The footage was filmed by a Chanel 7 Australia cameraman that happened to be on the flight.

Here’s a video from al-Jazeera with the Taliban claiming to have recruited hundreds of new suicide bombers in preparation for a new offensive against NATO forces. They also claim to have a new anti aircraft weapon, but the claim is not elaborated on.

Another video from the the group calling themselves ‘The Islamic State of Iraq’, this one showing a US twin-rotor Chinook being brought down by methods that are unclear. In the recent two weeks there has been a series of US helicopter bring-downs caught on video, but at this stage there is only speculation as to why there has been an increase. Some suggest that a new group has been formed dedicated to the sole task of bringing down choppers and denying the US forces open access to the skies. The other theory is that Al Qaeda in Iraq are now in possession of Russian made SA-7 Surface-to-Air Missiles.