Al-Jazeera satellite channel today aired a videotape purportedly showing armed Al-Qaeda fighters during a military exercise and attacking a position in Afghanistan. A short sequence of film, which the station said it obtained in Islamabad, initially shows a man, identified as "Abu Laith, the Libyan, an Al-Qaeda official in Afghanistan", addressing militiamen. During the night-time meeting, a bearded and bespectacled Abu Laith is seen surrounded by men seated on the ground "in Afghanistan or in a tribal region of Pakistan, before a new day of training," Al-Jazeera’s correspondent Ahmed Zidane said.
That’d be Abu Leith al-Libi, though it’s certainly been quite awhile since we’ve heard from him. |