卡塔爾半島電視臺9月7日播放了一盤新錄像帶，介紹了基地組織在發(fā)動9·11恐怖襲擊前的準(zhǔn)備活動，其中可以看到本·拉登與其他策劃者在阿富汗山區(qū)的一個恐怖分子訓(xùn)練營地里會談。錄像帶中，本·拉登穿著深顏色的長袍、戴著白色的帽子，在營地里巡視，并向幾十名追隨者致意。這些追隨者有的蒙面，很多人還帶著自動武器。據(jù)報道，這是基地組織第四次發(fā)布紀(jì)念9·11襲擊的錄像帶，有關(guān)評論認(rèn)為，基地組織發(fā)布這種錄像帶的目的是為了招募新人，提高成員士氣，發(fā)動心理攻勢以及為籌集資金創(chuàng)造條件。

Osama bin Laden is seen gesturing during a videotaped statement broadcast on November 3, 2001. Al Jazeera aired on Thursday a video tape that showed al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden meeting what it said were perpetrators of the September 11 attacks on U.S. cities, days ahead of the fifth anniversary of the strikes. [Reuters] CAIRO, Egypt - Al-Jazeera broadcast Thursday a previously unshown video of the preparations for the Sept. 11 attacks, in which al-Qaida chief Osama bin Laden is seen meeting with some of the planners in an Afghan mountain camp.  The station said that bin Laden also is shown greeting some of the hijackers , although their faces were not clear and it was not immediately known which are purportedly shown. The video included the last wills and testaments of hijackers Wail al-Shehri and Hamza al-Ghamdi. Thursday's was the fourth in a series of long videos that al-Qaida has put out to memorialize the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks on the Pentagon and World Trade Center, said Ben Venzke, head of IntelCenter, a private U.S. company that monitors militant message traffic and provides counterterrorism intelligence services for the American government. The previous ones were issued in April and September 2002 and September 2003, each showing video from the planning of the suicide hijackings and farewell statements from some of the hijackers, Venzke said. The video shows bin Laden in a dark robe and white headgear , strolling through the camp and greeting dozens of followers, some masked, and many carrying automatic weapons. A voice-over narration praises the fighters and refers to the camp being "on the soil of Kandahar", a city in southern Afghanistan. The footage shows scenes of training at the camp. Masked militants perform martial-arts kicks or learn how to break the hold of someone who grabs them from behind. Several militants are shown practicing with fold-out knives. "They produce long videos like these not just for 9/11, but for any significant events they feel warrant their attention," Venzke said. One aim is to boost recruitment, but such videos have other purposes - "to speak to their supporters, to raise morale within their own group, to facilitate fundraising, and to serve as a psychological attack ," he said. The footage also shows glimpses of daily life in the camp, with men chopping wood and cutting up vegetables for dinner. (Agencies)

Vocabulary:

hijackers: 劫機(jī)者 counterterrorism intelligence: 反恐情報 farewell statements: 告別演說 headgear: 頭飾 footage: 電影膠片，新聞鏡頭，文中指“錄像”，與前段的video同義 raise morale: 鼓舞士氣 psychological attack: 心理戰(zhàn) （英語點(diǎn)津陳蓓編輯）