A Pashtu-language video released by the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan (the Taliban's lead organization) shows 11 bombers who carried out the June 1, 2012 attack on the U.S. military's Forward Operating Base Salerno on the outskirts of Khost.
In a statement dated June 8, 2012, the Taliban accused the U.S. of censoring the details of the devastating attack. The new video, which was posted on a Taliban website some time in July 2012, shows 11 militants undergoing military training and planning, and carrying out the attack on Salerno base, the second largest U.S. military facility in Afghanistan.
The video, produced by the Mamba-ul-Jihad Studio of the Islamic Emirate, begins with a verse
from the Koran saying: "Or do they intend a plan? But those who disbelieve – they are the object of a plan." This is followed by a verse from a war song saying that jihad will continue as long as Islamism exists. "A thunderous theory it is, and thunderous are its blows; what a strange philosophy [of jihad] it is that eliminates the buildings of infidels," says another emotional song in the background.
