New video raises questions on bin Laden by Delia Cruceru

A new videotape released Thursday by the al-Qaida leader, Osama bin Laden, to mark the sixth commemoration of the 3000 victims from the World Trade Center terrorist attacks. In the video he praises the 19 suicide hijackers and presents the will of Walid al-Shehri, as "one of the 19 champions ... who personally penetrated the most extreme degrees of danger," under the title of "The Wills of the Heroes of the Raids on New York and Washington." Osama bin Laden is pictured in the video with a still picture with his finger raised and his beard dyed dark black and it appears that the video was made recent, made since at least June, because he mentions the name of the new British Prime Minister Gordon Brown who took the office in that month. Specialists wonder about bin Laden's health because in the first video released last week he moves only a little and in the second he doesn't move at all. A terrorist expert from the Swedish National Defense College, Magnus Ranstorp, said that trying to guess Osama's health from the images is pure speculation. Other specialist, Abdul Bari Atwan, editor of the pan-Arab newspaper al-Quds al-Arabi and author of "The Secret History of al-Qaida.", thinks that Osama bin Laden is trying to say with the release of two videos in just four days: 'I'm back."

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by Delia Cruceru for PocketNews (http://pocketnews.tv)

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