Video of US troops being attacked in Iraq used as recruiting tools

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<snip>DAVID ENSOR, CNN NATIONAL SECURITY CORRESPONDENT: Good evening, Paula.

Well, these video clips began to show up on the Web in the Arab world in the last week or so. The first one, according to the Web site that we first found it on, is on a Baghdad street. And if you look under those trees just ahead, there's an American Humvee or what looks like an American Humvee parked underneath there, perhaps with a soldier next to it. The camera hangs on it for a long time. And then we see why. And that explosion is reiterated several times in the videotape on the Web site.

The second video that we found on the Web site and on various Web sites is of another neighborhood in Baghdad, according to the Web site, a neighborhood called Rasafa. And here we see an explosion that's repeated several times, an attack on a military convoy, apparently, in the streets in Baghdad.

And, finally, the last one has sound. These do not. And we hear heavy gunfire on the streets of Adamiya in the Sunni district of Baghdad. And you can see there a Humvee coming under fire. Or that is what it looks like. Now, none of these videotapes have been authenticated. U.S. officials say they're examining them for any clues, for any intelligence that might be useful. Central Command has no comment on them whatsoever.

But analysts are saying that they believe the tapes were put on the Web to serve a propaganda purpose, clearly, and also to try to recruit more young Arabs to attack Americans in Iraq -- Paula.

ZAHN: Frightening to think about. Thanks, Dave.

And, of course, if these tapes are real, they'll know that people out there are videotaping these terror attacks and will know to look out for other cars with video cameras.