Website says it will show new Bin Laden video
An Islamist website said on Friday it would soon show a new video of al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden to mark the sixth anniversary of the September 11 attacks on United States cities.
The website published a still photograph apparently from the video, which showed bin Laden appearing older compared with available pictures.
The site did not say when the video, produced by al-Qaeda’s media arm al-Sahab, would be issued.
Bin Laden was last seen in a video statement aired to coincide with the November 2004 US presidential election. Since then, he has issued several audio messages, the last in July 2006 in which he vowed al-Qaeda would fight the US anywhere in the world.
White House spokesperson Gordon Johndroe, accompanying President George Bush at an Asia-Pacific leaders’ summit in Sydney, said in reaction to the report:
“Six years after 9/11, the arrests in Germany and Denmark this week, and the battles we fight against al-Qaeda in Iraq, Afghanistan ...
Bin Laden and his deputy Ayman al-Zawahri are believed to be hiding in the border area between Afghanistan and Pakistan.
US-led forces have been searching for bin Laden since they toppled Afghanistan’s Taliban government after it refused to hand over the mastermind behind the September 11 attacks in the US. - Reuters
