Bin Laden taunts US on 9/11 anniversary

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NEW YORK (AFP) — Al-Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden eulogized one of the September 11 hijackers in a video released on Tuesday's sixth anniversary of the attacks that still traumatize the United States.

As Americans remembered the almost 3,000 people killed, an attempted bomb attack in Turkey and a security alert at a US military base in Germany kept the world on terrorist alert.

The Al-Qaeda leader praises hijacker Walid al-Shehri as a "champion".

Al-Shehri was "a young man who personally penetrated the most extreme degrees of danger and is a rarity among men: one of the 19 champions," according to IntelCenter, a US-based monitoring group that obtained the video.

Al-Shehri was one of 19 hijackers on September 11, 2001. He was on American Airlines Flight...