Al-Jazeera plays news footage of bin Laden meeting with Sept. 11 hijackers

[greyl]

BASSEM MROUE 18 minutes ago

CAIRO, Egypt (AP) - Al-Jazeera broadcast Thursday a previously unshown video of the preparations for the Sept. 11 attacks in which al-Qaida chief Osama bin Laden is seen meeting with some of the planners and hijackers in a mountain camp in Afghanistan.


The video also included the last wills and testaments of two of the hijackers, Wail al-Shehri and Hamza al-Ghamdi. The station did not say how it obtained the video, which was produced by As-Sahab, al-Qaida's media branch.
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In the video, Bin Laden, wearing a dark robe and white headgear, strolls through the camp, greeting dozens of followers, some masked, and many carrying automatic weapons.

Al-Jazeera said that among those he greets in the video are several of the 9-11 hijackers, but their faces were not clear and it was not immediately known which ones are shown.
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[vincent_vega_lives]

1. Doncha know?

Al-Jazeera is part of the MSM disinfo machine. :silly:

[greyl]

2. Why don't CTists ever

respond to threads like this? ;)

[mirandapriestly]

3. But you ARE responding, and you are a cter, an Octer.

and the rest of us don't respond because the tapes are probably fake, it's such obvious bullshit it's not worth talking about. I like Al Qaeda's "Media department" BWAHAHAHAHAHAH, which cave was the media department in?

[seatnineb]

4. Yeah I love the way OTC's believe every word of liars like Binalshib!

There is certain irony in that!

[greyl]

6. I said "CTists" didn't I? Lemme check.

Yep, there it is plain as day. I'm so happy you finally showed up to represent the other CTists.

The cries of "fake!" are no surprise, and the lack of anything other than cries of "fake!" are equally unsurprising.

[mhatrw]

5. Wow! You guys are losing that badly?

Whoa!

[greyl]

7. I don't get it. nt

[pauldp]

8. is there a link for a video clip?

I saw the article but no link for video.

[greyl]

9. I haven't looked for one yet.

I saw clips of it on BBC world and NBC news tonight, but wasn't in a rush to look for and download the vid.
Have you looked?

[greyl]

11. The full video will be posted on the web soon.

according to Islamist militant web forums and past example:

Al-Jazeera did not say how it obtained the video, which was produced by As-Sahab, al-Qaida's media branch. Islamic militant Web forums said the entire video would be posted soon on the Internet. Such advertisements in the past have come a day or two before the video appears on the Web.

Thursday's was the fourth in a series of long videos that al-Qaida has put out to memorialize the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks on the Pentagon and World Trade Center, said Ben Venzke, head of IntelCenter, a private U.S. company that monitors militant message traffic and provides counterterrorism intelligence services for the American government.

The previous ones were issued in April and September 2002 and September 2003, each showing video from the planning of the suicide hijackings and farewell statements from some of the hijackers, Venzke said.

In the latest video, bin Laden is shown sitting outside with his former lieutenant Mohammed Atef and Ramzi Binalshibh, another suspected planner of the Sept. 11 attacks.

Venzke said the scenes had not been previously broadcast.

http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/1107AP_Al_Qaida_Video.html?source=mypi

Venzke said the footage shown on Al-Jazeera was part of a video he expected would be more than an hour long, based on the previous such videos on the Sept. 11 attacks.

"They produce long videos like these not just for 9-11, but for any significant events they feel warrant their attention," Venzke said.

One aim is to boost recruitment, but such videos have several purposes — "to speak to their supporters, to raise morale within their own group, to facilitate fundraising, and to serve as a psychological attack," he said.

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/09/07/terror/main1982773.shtml?source=RSS&attr=HOME_1982773

[DoYouEverWonder]

18. Maybe ABC can run these videos

instead of Path to 9-11?

[greyl]

22. lol, that would be an improvement.

No matter - here there'll be Frontline "Faith and Doubt at Ground Zero" to watch Monday night instead.

[rman]

10. no video, no dice

[vincent_vega_lives]

19. You dont get any dice (n/t)

[mirandapriestly]

12. They have it up, but I can't get it to play

I got the first picture, then it stopped. It looks like a fake bin laden again. Oh, and guess what? his "hijackers" all have scarves draped completely over their heads, so you can't see a thing. Did you really think we were going to see Atta face to face with bin laden?
What gets me is the corporate media plays these fake tapes and people are so willing to believe "authority" they fall for it like it's science or something - it's Bush science.

[greyl]

13. You can't get it play and you say it's fake? Okayyy.

Link?

[mirandapriestly]

14. I said I saw the first shot. it's up on yahoo-abc of course.

[greyl]

15. No, that's not the video.

If you're talking about the one on the left side here:

with this caption:

"Al-Jazeera has broadcast a video which it says shows Osama bin Laden meeting with some of the planners and hijackers of the Nine-Eleven attacks. (Sept. 7)"

[mirandapriestly]

16. well here is a description

I don't know what those are then, old ones?

Here is a faux news description, it says no one is heard so that means to me "someone" could have made up whatever they wanted.

"No one is heard on the video. But a speaker identified as bin Laden praises the "great damage to the enemy" on Sept. 11 and mentions five hijackers by name in an eight-minute audiotape accompanying the footage."
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,96966,00.html


also hilarious screenshot. A model of a Boeing airplane, lol...

http://english.aljazeera.net/HomePage

[greyl]

17. No, that's from 2003.

edit: meaning your "description".

Like I said, the full video will be put on the web soon.

[loop]

21. Videolink

Video:
http://rapidshare.de/files/32333436/Al-Jazeera-20060908-012920.mpg.html

[greyl]

23. Any luck with this link yet?

On dial-up, I haven't gotten it to finish yet.

Btw, thanks loop and welcome to DU. :)

[loop]

24. same video but smaller

same video but smaller (10 MB instead of 75 MB):
http://rapidshare.de/files/32389330/al_Jazeera_bin_Laden_20060908.wmv.html
The resolution is only 1/4 of the original video from above

[vincent_vega_lives]

20. Al-Jeez has only released 3 min so far

Saw some of it on the news last night. Its a 90 min tape.

The Al-Q courier service typically takes a few weeks to get a tape to the media, so this may be meant to air around 9-11-06. Or it could be as a result of the UK bomb plot.