Video Shows Bin Laden, 9/11 Hijackers

(CBS/AP)  Al-Jazeera aired Thursday previously unshown footage of the preparations for the Sept. 11 attacks in which al Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden is seen meeting with some of the planners and hijackers in a mountain camp in Afghanistan.

The station did not say how it obtained the video, which was produced by As-Sahab, al Qaeda's media branch.

The video included the last will and testaments of two of the hijackers, Wail al-Shehri and Hamza al-Ghamdi.

CBS News correspondent Jim Stewart reports that the CIA is examining this tape frame by frame, and agency officials aren't certain as of yet if any of it is new.

The footage was the fourth in a series of long videos that al Qaeda has put out to memorialize the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks against 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 footage from the planning of the suicide hijackings and testimonies from some of the hijackers, Venzke told The Associated Press.

In the latest video, bin Laden is shown sitting outside in what appears to be a mountain camp with his former lieutenant Mohammed Atef and Ramzi Binalshibh, another suspected planner of the Sept. 11 attacks.

Atef, also known as Abu Hafs al-Masri, was killed by a U.S. air strike in Afghanistan in 2001. Binalshibh was captured four years ago in Pakistan and is currently in U.S. custody, and this week President George W. Bush announced plans to put him on military trial.

The U.S. government said Binalshibh intended to be one of the 9/11 hijackers, but failed to gain entry into the United States, reports CBS News correspondent Dan Raviv.

In the tape, Bin Laden, wearing a dark robe and white head gear, strolls through the camp, greeting dozens of followers, some masked, some barefaced, many carrying automatic weapons.

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

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[tomflint69]

To: Helmeto who said:
So, in short we are supposed to believe that this bunch of some animal handlers were behind 9/11 attacks?? Please do not make me Laugh!!
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This is the mistake we common people often make. The answers is a big YES. In fact these animal handlers often include qualified people who are formally educated and doctors/engineers in their countries; its another thing that they hide and live like people who lived 1000 years back from now. Yet another problem is the concern that they easily brain wash educated people in our countries, you can see in every street talking in their favour! ..... unfortunately these animal handlers are a real problem and yes they carried out bombings. Further if we strictly talk about it from point of view of terrorism, for some one to become a terrorist he/she need not get formal education or live like a well mannered person in a civilised society or place. You will find evil almost any where; in any circumstances.

[thebuldge]

Bin Laden is a figment of the Bush administrations imagination. He's the BOOGEYMAN that George Bush pulls out of his magic hat everytime he thinks he and his party are in trouble. He always seems to pop up at the most convenient times. Bush uses him to scare the sheep back to the flock. It's all psychological.

[mjv2944]

bin laden and that whole lot are nothing but murderers using God as the justifier.

[mjv2944]

bin laden and that whole lot are nothing but murderers using God as the justifier.

[patriotic9]

I feel so sorry about Mr. or Ms fryken who is one of those whose knowledge seem to be limited to BEER,BASE BALL and BREAST.FRYKEN wants to talk about BID LADEN AND TERRIORISM but doesn't know why terriorism and binladen started and why they achieving succes against us.Root of all the problems to US is the Palestinian-european conflict.The people who gives us oil in cheaper prices hate us because of US support to the illegitimate and unjustified existance of Israel.The RADICAL,RACIST and UNJUST CHRISTIAN IDEOLOGY which consider Americans as GOD NEGLECTED and EUROPEAN INVADERS IN PALESTINE as GOD CHOOSEN because of the race they born in is killing America adn Americans but I feel so sorry about people like you who don't have enough common sense to understand these even when told in simplest terms.Noproblem what any body's religion is as long as its not brought into politics

[helmeto]

Infact some Stateless People claim God chose them "above all people on the face of the earth".. This unreasonable, unrealistic and non-sensical thought can only have foundations in some bitterly twisted Racist Brains!!

[helmeto]

So, in short we are supposed to believe that this bunch of some animal handlers were behind 9/11 attacks??

Please do not make me Laugh!!

[fryken-2009]

God chosen , God neglected, European invaders!?!
This is about Bin Laden and terrorism, not a war campaign poster for world war II. Who cares about Palastine, I may not be the smartest person , but I haven't heard of an American dying for that cause in quit awhile. If your trying to make a corrolation me thinks your lost. I liked your defenition of a patriot, beyond that, God chosen, God neglected, European invaders, you sound as if your regurgitating something you have read because all you have done is repeat the same chant, WOW!!

[patriotic9]

It wasn't Sir Bill Clinton who supported,given money,training and weapon to Bin Laden but a Conservative,racist and unjust Republican president name Ronald Reagan bc these republicans and Bin Laden have same ideology.They both are against the homosexual people right to marry when heterosexual are allowed which is sexual orientaion based discrimination.They both're religious extremists who want to impose their radical views on the people.They both against women's equal rights.They both agianst abortion,etc.

[patriotic9]

Mr. Fryken you are so good in spelling please tell me where is that word drivel came form in the english language.I won't say that you have come from wood because I believe in respecting human beings except racist people.All the human beings are GOD NEGLECTED people because of not being born in a race choosen by GOD so they've not been promised a single penny from GOD.Those Europeans who've been brought in middle east after WWII are GOD CHOOSEN PEOPLE bc of being born in a race choosen by GOD that's why been promised a land there.Human beings should't be treated according to their actions but should be treated as GOD CHOOSEN or GOD NEGLECTED on the basis of race they belong to.This is called INJUSTICE AND RACISM.