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Posted on 09/30/2006 4:33:11 PM PDT by Pokey78
FILM of the ringleader of the September 11 hijackers reading his “martyrdom” will inside Afghanistan at Osama Bin Laden’s headquarters has emerged five years after the Al-Qaeda outrage.
It is the first time that a videotape has appeared of Mohammed Atta — who flew an American Airlines plane into the north tower of the World Trade Center — at a training camp in Afghanistan. It fills in a significant gap in the timing of the build-up to the attacks on the United States.
Dates on the tape show Atta was filmed on January 18, 2000, together with Ziad Jarrah, the pilot of United Airlines flight 93, which crashed in Pennsylvania after the passengers apparently stormed the flight deck.
The Sunday Times has obtained a copy of the video through a previously tested channel. The tape has no soundtrack and a US source said lip readers had tried without success to decipher what was being said.
Despite the deadly tasks the men had been assigned, they appear in high spirits, laughing and smiling in front of the camera. Only when Atta, with an AK-47 propped on a wall beside him, reads a document marked in Arabic “the will”, does he become solemn. Both are well groomed, without the haggard appearance of the identity mugshots issued after September 11.
The high quality, unedited film shows Bin Laden addressing his followers at the mud-walled complex near Kandahar. One of the main figures in the September 11 plot, Ramzi Binalshibh, is identifiable in the crowd, as is a bodyguard whose task was to kill Bin Laden with two bullets to the head if he faced capture.
Dating on the tape indicates that the Al-Qaeda leader was filmed on January 8, 2000, 10 days before Atta and Jarrah recorded their wills.
American and German investigators have struggled to find evidence of Atta’s whereabouts in January 2000 after he disappeared from Hamburg. The hour-long tape places him in Afghanistan at a decisive moment in the development of the conspiracy when he was given operational command. Months later both he and Jarrah enrolled at flying schools in America.
Investigators have also puzzled over the fact that unlike the rest of the hijackers — most of whom were young Saudi fundamentalists — Atta and Jarrah were well educated and appeared to fit into western society while studying in Germany. The video indicates how easily they slipped from a western identity to a fundamentalist one. It also shows up the subterfuge they maintained in Germany and America that they did not know each other, all part of evading detection.
Didn't you know? the CIA produced this video to cover their tracks!
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Add me to your anger. These are no-good Islamic low lifes!
I'm as serious as a heart attack. Hear me, God!
They ain't laffin' now !
Amen to that, e!
This is weird: Despite the deadly tasks the men had been assigned, they appear in high spirits, laughing and smiling in front of the camera.
Do these reporters/people not get that this debris is in high spirits PRECISELY because they'd been assigned deadly tasks given that deadly equates to instant martyrdom according to their cult?
In fact, when I asked a fellow FReeper how his true blue 'Truther' friend responded to the 'Screw Loose Change' video he told me that he responded with the typical 'Rove' plot stuff, that the government created the video, etc...
So this probably really is exactly how they'll respond!
Roger-That,,,And many have followed,,,And more will !
Well, they're all burning in hell now, so I'm sure the smile is wiped off their pathetic faces.
That's a bearded Jerry Seinfeld on the left in the photo!
It really WAS a Jewish plot...
"trotted out to try to discredit what we ALL know is true"
Not only that but there were no Arab names on the passenger list for Flight 77. --rolls eyes----
Can't find a link to the video.
Has anyone else got it? The link goes to the front page, a link there goes to a text article, and no video link.
TIA
Exactly. I was playing the role of the raving liberal loon.
"They ain't laffin' now !"
Exactly!
"Both you and Purrcival in #13 this possibility out, probably in jest, but from what I've heard from folks who've actually tried to persuade 'Truthers' of the truth, this will very likely be their honest-to-God (so to speak) response."
Yep. I've spent so much time DUmpster diving that I can pretty much tell you what their response to ANYTHING will be before I even read any of their posts. I haven't been over there yet since this bit of news broke, but I'll bet you that the "Rove plot to discredit LIHOP and MIHOP and fool the sheeple" will be the mantra.
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