Analysis of Al Qaeda Yemen Tape Shows Not All Footage Is New

Flashback: Proof Bin Laden Tape Is 5-Year-Old, Re-Released Footage

BRIAN ROSS
ABC News
April 30, 2010

The new al Qaeda video of accused bomber Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab at a desert training camp included footage that had been released previously, in January, 2009, according to a frame by frame analysis by terrorism expert Evan Kohlman of Flashpoint Global Partners.

The al Qaeda propaganda video was provided to a Yemeni journalist working for ABC News earlier in the week.

While the scenes of Abdulmutallab holding a weapon and speaking had not been previously made public, the footage of al Qaeda fighters firing weapons at targets including a Jewish star and the British Union Jack was included in an al Qaeda propaganda tape made public in January, 2009, according to Kohlman’s analysis.

Kohlman found a “precisely matching pattern of bullet holes” in the targets.

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