August 19, 2002.
SKY Television Broadcasts Exclusive Al Qaeda Video From Tapes Recovered In Afghanistan
CNN International (SKY Digital channel 56 and UHF channel 6) today launches an exclusive weeklong series of
never-seen-before footage taken from multiple videotapes recovered from inside Afghanistan by CNN's senior international
correspondent Nic Robertson.
Each day this week CNN International will broadcast reports about these tapes in a special five-part series on SKY
Digital’s channel 56 and UHF channel 6.
These tapes graphically reveal the expertise, resources and resolve of the Al Qaeda terrorist movement. The five
installments of 'Terror on Tape' will air throughout the week and conclude with a CNN Special Report summarizing the
series.
Nic Robertson worked for several weeks to track the story, relying on sources cultivated during his years of reporting
from Afghanistan. Experts tell CNN that these tapes show Al Qaeda operatives training in the field as they practice
assassinations, kidnappings and urban combat.
In many cases, the footage is the video version of discarded documents discovered by CNN's Mike Boettcher last year in
Afghanistan. In that discovery, CNN reported on papers, notes, documents and instruction manuals left behind when Al
Qaeda fighters fled Kabul.
Many of the documents and manuals included instructions on how to hijack and blow up airplanes, how to build bombs and
how to explode trains, ships and other modes of transportation.
Each individual video screens this week from Monday 19 to Friday 23 August, at the following times - 1pm on News Biz
Today, 4pm on BizNews and 11pm on Asia Tonight.
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