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A small private intelligence company that monitors Islamic terrorist groups obtained a new Osama bin Laden video ahead of its official release last month, and around 10 a.m. on Sept. 7, it notified the Bush administration of its secret acquisition. It gave two senior officials access on the condition that the officials not reveal they had it until the al-Qaeda release. Within 20 minutes, a range of intelligence agencies had begun downloading it from the company's Web site. By midafternoon that day, the video and a transcript of its audio track had been leaked from within the Bush administration to...

NEW AL-QAEDA TAPE RELEASED SITE Institute SITE Institute,12/3/2003 - As promised in an announcement issued by al-Qaeda?s ?al-Sahab? production company, which was posted on the al-Qaeda affiliated ?Leewa? website last week, a new tape which includes unseen shots of Osama bin Laden was recently released. The announcement of the video was accompanied with a report, entitled ?A Special Report on the Confrontations Martyrs.? Although the report describes the entire video in detail, only the first two minutes are actually available online. The new video, entitled ?The Martyrs of the Confrontations,? focuses on the Arabian Peninsula martyrs, beginning with the ?first...