September 06, 2007

Osama bin Laden plans to issue a video message addressing the American people on the sixth anniversary of the attacks on September 11, the US-based monitoring service SITE said.

"The SITE Intelligence Group has learned that a new video message is forthcoming from the head of Al Qaeda" on the anniversary of the September 11 terror attack in New York, the group said, which monitors extremist websites and publications.

The Al Qaeda network's media arm announced the video in a notice posted on jihadist forums at about 9:15pm GMT, according to SITE.

It would be the first video message from bin Laden since 2004, it said.

The online notice included a photo of bin Laden in which his black beard did not have the usual streaks of grey. He was also not wearing a camouflage jacket as in previous appearances.

Another US-based monitor of extremist or jihadist websites, IntelCenter, confirmed the notice from Al Qaeda's media production group, As-Sahab.

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