Al-Jazeera satellite television today said it had received a videotape which it said apparently showed some of the September 11 suicide hijackers studying flight manuals.
"Jazeera has recently obtained what seems to be a tape prepared by al Qaeda on the first anniversary of the September 11 attacks showing some of the perpetrators of the...attacks carrying out technical training on controlling aircraft," the Qatar-based channel said in a news bulletin.
It showed footage of a map with a hand pointing at the Pentagon and people studying flight manuals without showing their faces and separately showed men wearing south Asian outfits and identified them as four of the hijackers of the aircraft that were flown into US landmarks.
The tape also carried what Jazeera said was the will of one hijackers, identified as Abdul-Aziz al-Omari, saying: "This is a message to America to make it leave ... and stop supporting Israel." The alleged hijacker also praised Osama bin Laden while thanking people who supported and trained him.
The channel said the tape had been recorded in Kandahar, Afghanistan but it did not say when or how it obtained it.