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NewsSeptember 10, 2002

CAIRO, Egypt -- The Arab satellite station Al-Jazeera said Osama bin Laden can be heard naming four of the Sept. 11 hijackers on a new videotape the station partially aired on Monday. There was no way to verify whether the voice heard on the video clip belonged to bin Laden or when the recording was made. The al-Qaida leader's whereabouts are unknown and he did not appear in the excerpts shown Monday...

By Salah Nasrawi, The Associated Press

CAIRO, Egypt -- The Arab satellite station Al-Jazeera said Osama bin Laden can be heard naming four of the Sept. 11 hijackers on a new videotape the station partially aired on Monday.

There was no way to verify whether the voice heard on the video clip belonged to bin Laden or when the recording was made. The al-Qaida leader's whereabouts are unknown and he did not appear in the excerpts shown Monday.

"As we talk about the conquests of Washington and New York we talk about those men who changed the course of history," a male voice, attributed to bin Laden, is heard saying in Arabic.

In the excerpts, he identified four of the Sept. 11 hijackers -- Mohamed Atta, Marwan Al-Shehhi, Ziad Jarrah and Hani Hanjour -- as ringleaders and prayed for their souls.

Bin Laden has not been heard from since shortly after the U.S.-led bombing campaign began in Afghanistan last October.

Al-Jazeera, which has aired several al-Qaida videotapes since last year's attacks, said it would air the latest video in full on Thursday. According to the station, the tape was made in the eastern Afghan town of Kandahar, but it was not clear whether that meant the scenes were filmed there or the narration was added there.

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The tape also included old footage of several young men identified as some of the hijackers during training last year in Afghanistan. They appeared to be looking at maps, including one of the Washington D.C. area, and manuals of cockpit gadgetry.

Al-Jazeera said over the weekend that one of its correspondents had interviewed two top al-Qaida fugitives wanted in the terrorist attack. According to the interview, reportedly conducted in June with Khalid Shaikh Mohammed and Ramzi Binalshibh, the U.S. Congress was the fourth American landmark on al-Qaida's Sept. 11 hit list, and the terror group also considered striking U.S. nuclear facilities.

U.S. counterterrorism officials, speaking on condition of anonymity, said many of Mohammed's statements about the origins of the plot are plausible, but they have no information to verify those claims.

The interview is scheduled to air Thursday.

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