9 February 2012, 21:54 (GMT+04:00)

Azərbaycan | Русский | فارسی | العربية

Bin Laden videotape not new, monitoring site says (UPDATE)

A videotape of Al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden released on Friday is the Pashto-language version of a tape first released several months ago, said IntelCenter, a U.S.-based terrorism monitoring firm, Reuters reported.

The tape, titled "To Our People in Pakistan", was broadly released in Arabic and Urdu on July 12, IntelCenter said. Excerpts had been aired by Al Jazeera network on June 3, it added.

Earlier on Friday, IntelCenter had said al-Qaeda's as-Sahab Media had released a new video from bin Laden.

Yahoo BookmarkYahoo Bookmark