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Qatar: Arabic TV channel Al Jazeera has broadcast unseen footage of Osama Bin Laden meeting with some of the senior Al Qaeda members who planned the 2001 September 11 attacks.
The 90-minute video, which aired four days before the fifth anniversary of 9/11, shows Bin Laden meeting Ramzi Binalshibh and Mohammed Atef in a mountainous area of Afghanistan, as well as training scenes which took place at the camp.
Abu Hamza Al Muhajir, who is said to have taken over from Abu Musab Al Zarqawi, has been identified as the speaker on the tape.
Muhajir says he is confident victory will be achieved and tells US forces not to be "proud of the number and the equipment", stating, "The war has just begun."
Nineteen Islamists who took part in the attacks were also in the video.
They said their aim was to avenge the suffering experienced by Muslims in Bosnia and Chechnya.
In one scene Bin Laden calls on Muslims to support the hijackers, saying, "I ask you to pray for them and to ask God to make them successful, aim their shots well, set their feet strong and strengthen their hearts".
Binalshibh was captured in 2002 and is reportedly being held in Guantanamo Bay, while Atef was killed by a US air strike in Afghanistan in 2001.
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