New video of bin Laden

Osama bin Laden and his top deputy have appeared in a new video broadcast, claiming the September 11 attacks as a "great victory".

Bin Laden and Ayman al-Zawahri kneel before the cameras. It is not known when the tape was made.

The video footage was obtained by Pan-Arab statellite station Al-Jazeera.

A second tape, showing one of the men who carried out the attacks pledging to die as a 'martyr', has also been received by the TV station.

In the first video, Bin Laden's top deputy Ayman al-Zawahri is shown kneeling before the camera claiming the September 11 attacks as a "great victory". Bin Laden himself does not speak.

It is not known when or where the tapes were made, or how they were delivered to the network's headquarters in Quatar.

Al-Jazeera say they will show the tapes in full on Thursday.

In the second video, one of the men who carried out the September 11 attacks says: "It is high time that we killed Americans in their home."

The man has been identified as Ahmed Alghamdi, one of the 19 suspected hijackers of the airplanes that crashed into the World Trade Center and the Pentagon.

"Lord, I regard myself as a martyr for you so accept me as such," said the Saudi man with a thin beard who wore an Arab chequered headdress.

An official at Qatar-based Al-Jazeera said declined to say how the satellite station obtained the tape.

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