Web Site Airs al-Qaida, Sept. 11 Videos (smiling Osama planning the attack

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Web Site Airs al-Qaida, Sept. 11 Videos
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Sep 10, 6:08 PM (ET)

By OMAR SINAN and BASSEM MROUE

CAIRO, Egypt (AP) - A videotape posted on the Internet late Sunday, purportedly by al-Qaida, showed previously unseen footage of a smiling Osama bin Laden and other commanders in a mountain camp apparently planning the Sept. 11 attacks on New York and Washington.

The 55-minute documentary-like retrospective of the five years since the attacks was unusually long and sophisticated in its production quality compared to previous al-Qaida videos. The footage - with English subtitles - surfaced on the eve of the fifth anniversary of the attacks on a Web site that frequently airs messages from bin Laden's terror network.

"Planning for Sept. 11 did not take place behind computer monitors or radar screens, nor inside military command and control centers, but was surrounded with divine protection in an atmosphere brimming with brotherliness ... and love for sacrificing life," an unidentified narrator said.


Al-Jazeera broadcast a videotape on Thursday purporting to show Osama bin Laden meeting with some of the Sept. 11 hijackers. Bin Laden is shown here in this TV image from Jan. 9, 2001, while attending the wedding of his son in Afghanistan. (AP Photo/Al-Jazeera/TV, File)

The tape showed the al-Qaida leader and meeting with colleagues in a mountain camp believed to be in Afghanistan, as well as video clips of U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney defending his old job at the oil company Halliburton, and President Bush at his inauguration.

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