Web Site Airs al-Qaida, Sept. 11 Videos

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Forum Spin Doctor
Media: The Associated Press
Byline: OMAR SINAN
Date: 10 September 2006

CAIRO, Egypt_A video posted on the Internet late Sunday, purportedly by
al-Qaida, showed footage of a smiling Osama bin Laden meeting with top
planners of the Sept. 11 attacks that struck the United States five years
ago.

Excerpts of the footage aired on Al-Jazeera television on Thursday, and
al-Qaida announced it would later release the full video on the Internet.
The 55-minute tape _ with English subtitles _ surfaced late Sunday on a Web
site

that frequently airs tapes and messages from bin Laden's terror network. The
footage was stamped with the emblem of al-Qaida's media arm.

The same Web site, which frequently airs al-Qaida tapes and messages, showed
a 19-minute videotape earlier Sunday showing the World Trade Center's twin
towers engulfed by flames and included an old audio recording of bin Laden
praising each of the 19 suicide attackers by name.

It was a montage of video from Sept. 11 and afterward, all previously aired
on television or Web sites, but it appeared to have been made by producers
of the Internet site itself, and not by bin Laden's network.

It began with a diagram showing headshots of the hijackers, organized into
four groups. The footage then cuts to a White House meeting between
President Bush and former Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon.

"They are the new pharaohs," a militant song blared over the video, in
reference to the two leaders.

The tape spliced together previous footage of the attacks, some from CNN and
Fox News. The video zooms in slow motion as an airliner rams into the second
World Trade Center tower.

Screams of "Allahu Akbar! (God is great)" overlay the images, and the towers
appear to collapse in slow motion.

Militant songs ring out throughout the footage, praising Jerusalem's Al-Aqsa
Mosque at one point. The mosque is built on the spot where Islam's prophet
Muhammad is said to have ascended to heaven. The area also contains the
remains of the biblical Jewish Temple, and is sacred to Jews, who call it
the Temple Mount.

At another point, a militant song proclaimed, "We will destroy the throne of
the enemies."

"We will not accept humiliation we will not bow our heads," said another
song. These are the men who "removed shame from our nation," voices chant as
the faces of the Sept. 11 hijackers are shown.
 
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