World News 10-12-2001 Video Evidence Of Bin Laden`s Guilt who: Vice president Dick Cheney what: Says US has video evidence that Osama bin Laden was responsible for Sept.11th crimes where: Washington DC when: Yesterday snippet: "The wholesale collapse of the Taleban regime has offered damning new evidence against Osama bin Laden," reports The Scotsman this morning, "and confirmed for Washington that it needs to take its war on terror far beyond Afghanistan." Vice President Dick Cheney has informed the press that a 40-minute video videotape has been discovered which shows Osama bin Laden praising God for the destruction of the World Trade Center and indicates that he had advance knowledge of the September 11th attacks on New York and Washington DC. Mr Cheney described the tape as a "smoking gun" which proves Bin Laden had "significant knowledge of what happened and there`s no doubt about his responsibility." But thus far there is no plan to release the tape as Mr Cheney quipped "We`ve not been eager to give the guy any extra television time". From Tora Bora, where the bombing continues against cave-dwelling al-Qa`ida supporters, The Sun reports that chilling documents have been revealed in which Osama Bin Laden wrote personality profiles of budding al-Qa`ida suicide terrorists. The documents include a manual on how to blend into Western society. "It includes details of which wrist to wear a watch on and even how to use deodorant," says the feature by Nick Parker and Neil Syson. "Al-Qa`ida sleeper agents are warned it is meant to be applied directly on the body and not on clothing." And The Mirror says that the world`s most wanted man "plans a TV suicide that will trigger attacks on landmarks in London, Paris and the US," writes Jeremy Armstrong. His estranged wife Sabiha, interviewed on Russian TV channel TV6, believes that he will "order his elder sons to shoot him rather than be captured." [... more]

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