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via translation - ALERT - A message from Osama bin Laden on Iraq released soon WASHINGTON - The head of the Al Qaeda network, Osama bin Laden, will soon speak on Iraq in a message, said Thursday a special centre in the interception of communications by Al-Qaeda, the company SITE Intelligence Group .

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...