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Al-Qaeda is planning to release a video message within 24 hours to mark the seventh anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks on the World Trade Center and Pentagon, a U.S.-based intelligence group said.The terrorist network's media production unit as-Sahab published banners on the Internet earlier this week flagging the release, with a graphic saying"Wait 11 September,'' IntelCenter, based in Alexandria, Virginia, said in an e-mailed statement today.The banner showed a silhouette of a face with a question mark over it, according to IntelCenter, which provides counterterrorism intelligence support to the U.S.,British,Australian and Canadian armed forces.The"mystery speaker'' on the video may be al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden or a recording of the last will and testament of Mohammed Atta, one of the 9/11 hijackers, IntelCenter said.Al-Qaeda regularly releases messages on the Internet and in May broadcast an audio message from bin Laden timed to coincide with Israel's 60th anniversary and President George W. Bush's visit to the region. In it, bin Laden condemned countries that are supportive of the Jewish state. "This is the greatest amount of build-up al-Qaeda has generated for any anniversary video release designed to mark 9/11,'' IntelCenter said in a statement.There have been no confirmed sightings of bin Laden since he escaped U.S.-led forces in the Tora Bora region of Afghanistan in December 2001.By Ed Johnson
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