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Birmingham Sunday Mercury: An al-Qaida recruitment video showing the chilling "last will and testament" of one of the September 11 hijackers is being openly sold at Birmingham's Central Mosque. The hour-long film contains the only testimony of the hijackers, explaining their motives for the US attacks, and erases any doubt that Osama bin Laden was behind the atrocities. Recorded six months before the atrocity, the tape shows Ahmed al-Haznawi - who was on United Airlines flight 93, which crashed in rural Pennsylvania - issuing a chilling warning. He tells Americans to "start digging their own graves because a thousand bin...

ALEXANDRIA: Zacarias Moussaoui, accused of having planned to join the September 11 attacks on America, argued on Friday that the US government could not seek the death penalty against him because he had not been charged with any acts that directly caused deaths. In papers filed in the US District Court in Alexandria, Virginia, Moussaoui's defence team asked Judge Leonie Brinkema to bar the government from seeking the death penalty. Last month prosecutors told the court Moussaoui -- the only person indicted for the attacks that destroyed the World Trade Center and killed some 3,000 people -- should be executed....