New Bin Laden Audio Marks 9/11 Anniversary

Message From Al Qaeda Leader Introduces Video Showing Last Will Of Flight 11 Hijacker

(CBS/AP) 
"As for our own fortune, it is not in this world," he said. "And we are not competing with you for this world, because it does not equal in Allah's eyes the wing of a mosquito."

Al-Shehri warned Muslims who strayed to return to their religion and deplored the state of those who abandoned Muslim holy war, or jihad.

"The condition of Islam at the present time makes one cry ... in view of the weakness, humiliation, scorn and enslavement it is suffering because it neglected the obligations of Allah and His orders, and permitted His forbidden things and abandoned jihad in Allah's path," he said.

Suicide attacks for al Qaeda and other militant groups often videotape last testaments before carrying out their attacks. Every Sept. 11 anniversary, al Qaeda has used the tapes in a bid to rally its supporters by glorifying its "martyrs."

Bin Laden's new appearances underline the failure to find the terror leader that President Bush vowed in the wake of the Sept. 11 attacks to take "dead or alive."

On Sunday, Bush's homeland security adviser Frances Fragos Townsend sought to play down bin Laden's importance - and added a taunt, saying he was "virtually impotent."

But, top U.S. security officials do see an increasing danger.

"Al Qaeda has protected or regenerated key elements of its homeland attack capability," said CIA Director Michael Hayden.

But terrorism experts say al Qaeda's core leadership is regrouping in the lawless Pakistan-Afghanistan border region. The latest National Intelligence Estimate says the network is growing in strength, intensifying its efforts to put operatives in the United States and plot new attacks.

"We watch them recruit. We watch them bring them to Pakistan, that border area between Pakistan and Afghanistan, to train, them in things like liquid explosives," National Intelligence director Michael McConnell told Orr.

Suspects arrested in last week's German bomb plot were recent graduates of such training.

Bin Laden's video on Saturday was his first message in over a year - since a July 1, 2006 audiotape. The images came under close scrutiny from U.S. intelligence agencies, looking for clues to the 50-year-old's health and whereabouts.

Al Qaeda's PR machine has pumped out 75 propaganda tapes this year: Ten from Ayman al-Zawahiri, bin Laden's long-time deputy, who officials say is emerging as the real operational boss of the terror network, reports Orr.