Posted on 04/16/2002 4:04:34 AM PDT by TomGuy
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Story filed: 20:51 Monday 15th April 2002
New bin Laden video a 'patchwork of clips'
Tue 16 Apr 2002
Paul Gallagher
http://news.scotsman.com/international.cfm?id=405102002
US MILITARY agents were last night analysing newly released film of Osama bin Laden in which his supporters openly boast of their involvement in the 11 September attacks.
Bin Laden appears in excerpts from a video compiled by al-Qaeda sympathisers and broadcast yesterday on the Arab TV network al-Jazeera, showing his chief deputy hailing the attacks as a "great victory".
The video also claims to feature one of the 19 men who took part in the hijackings reading his last will and testament and vowing to "kill Americans in their heartland".
It is the first new film of bin Laden to surface since February, but there is no indication of when it was made. US intelligence agents have secured a copy of the video and are examining it for information about the current state of the al-Qaeda network.
The film is not believed to contain any clear evidence to suggest bin Laden is still alive or provide clues about his current whereabouts.
Al-Jazeera, which is owned by the government of Qatar, broadcast excerpts from what it says is an hour-long tape as a preview to showing the video in its entirety on Thursday.
Donald Rumsfeld, the US defence secretary, said last night he believed the footage of bin Laden was "somewhat dated" and his military aides are understood to believe it was filmed in October or November last year, during the US assault on the Taleban regime in Afghanistan.
Mr Rumsfeld added: "I was advised that what I was watching very likely was using a patchwork of clips from previous periods along with some dialogue of more recent periods - rather commentary from more recent periods.
"At least thus far the impression is that it is not new ... it does not reflect anything of UBL (Osama bin Laden) from recent periods."
The excerpts shown yesterday feature bin Laden dressed in robes and kneeling alongside his deputy Ayman al-Zawahri in front of a background of a lush green field alongside a rocky river bed.
Bin Laden does not say anything in the excerpt shown yesterday but al-Zawahri addresses the camera, saying: "Those 19 brothers who went out and worked and sacrificed their lives for God, God granted this conquest that we enjoy today."
He adds: "The great victory that was achieved was because of God's help and not because of our efficiency or power."
The video is entitled "The wills of the New York and Washington Battle Martyrs" and features photographs of the 19 hijackers in its opening title sequence. Although the footage of bin Laden is undated, there is some evidence that the video tape itself was compiled in recent weeks.
The narrator of the video makes a reference to the Arab League summit held on 27-28 March, suggesting that the summit was coming up shortly.
Only one of the 19 hijackers is shown speaking in the video, Ahmed Ibrahim Alhaznawi, whom US officials say was one of four attackers on United Airlines Flight 93, which crashed in rural Pennsylvania.
As Alhaznawi reads his statement on the video, his image is superimposed on to a photo-montage of the burning twin towers of the World Trade Centre in New York.
He says: "The time of humiliation and subjugation is over. It's time to kill Americans in their heartland."
Alhaznawi brags of killing Americans outside their homeland, an apparent reference to earlier attacks on US targets overseas blamed on bin Laden's network, and added "but today, we are killing them in the midst of their homes."
Al-Jazeera said it understood the statement, which resembles the video-taped declarations made by Palestinian suicide bombers before their deaths, had been filmed in the former Taleban stronghold of Kandahar six months before the attacks on New York and Washington.
Al-Jazeera's editor in chief, Ibrahim Hilal, said the video was delivered to the station's Qatar offices a week ago.
Put him in a pink mini skirt and heels in LA cruising for hoes.
1) An earlier bin-Laden video indicated some/many/all of the hijackers did not know they were on a suicide/homicide mission on 9/11. This seems to contradict the earlier video.
2) I find it intersting that peace-loving Palestinians and peace-loving al-Qaeda members both go before video cameras before they murder innocent civilians.
That ragheaded mo-fo is probably dead.
This video sounds like warmed-over mush.
I heard the Al Jezeeera reporter say people in the arab world can no longer claim bin laden had no part in the WTC bombing. He said that wouldn't be important here in the US, but it was very important over there, especially in Saudi Arabia where denial was the initial reaction.
Did anyone else notice that in this video, Bin laden did exhibit movement in his left arm and hand?
The fact that OBL didn't say anything could be due to the fact that either his spoken messages are coded as earlier speculated or that the tape was thrown together in haste. Or both.
If there was any doubt about OBL's involvement in the NYC/WDC terror attacks, that doubt was erased. Why? Because the Palestinian conflict is stealing headlines from OBL and shifting attention away from his holy war between islam and the west.
What if OBL called a holy war and nobody came?
That is because bin Laden is now a 'patchwork of body parts'.
:o)
Thank you for the tip.
They want us to think that they're planning something. It's a card game and they think they can call trump again.
OBL might get more attention if he changed his head-dress. wa-ha
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