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Wednesday, September 11, 2002 - Web posted at 8:13:33 GMT New bin Laden video resembles footage already seen NICOSIA, Sept 11 (AFP) - New video footage of terror suspect Osama bin Laden, broadcast Tuesday by Al-Jazeera TV , is markedly similar to images already shown by the Qatari broadcaster, according to an Nampa-AFP photographer. |
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The video broadcast late Tuesday shows the head of the al-Qaeda terrorist network, in a white headdress and looking skinny but in good health, apparently talking to an unseen audience. He was shown only in close-up from the waist up. Those images strongly resemble video footage aired on Al-Jazeera at the end of September 2001. Bin Laden is dressed the same way in both shots which are framed in exactly the same way. In both cases, the sky provides the only background with the out-of-focus image of a tree in the upper right-hand corner. The Qatari channel presented the images shown Tuesday as never shown before, without specifying when they were shot. Al-Jazeera said the tape had been made by Al-Sahab, a media production establishment that has produced other Al-Qaeda tapes, but did not make clear when it was made or how it got hold of it. In the latest footage, bin Laden calls for the liberation of Islamists imprisoned in the United States and Saudi Arabia. The tape was broadcast on the eve of the first anniversary of the September 11 suicide attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, which killed some 3,000 people and for which the United States blamed bin Laden's Al-Qaeda terrorist network. In an earlier part of the tape, bin Laden was heard, but not shown, extolling the hijackers who crashed their planes into the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. The fate or whereabouts of bin Laden are unknown, with no information on his movements for months. Nampa-AFP |
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