7/7 bomber video aired
2006-07-06 16:20
London - A videotaped statement by one of the four London suicide bombers, Shehzad Tanweer, was broadcast on BBC television on Thursday, one day before the first anniversary of the deadly July 7 attacks.
"What have you witnessed now is only the beginning of a string of attacks that will continue and become stronger," Tanweer said in a video clip.
It also featured separate footage of Ayman al-Zawahiri, Osama bin Laden's number two in the al-Qaeda terror network.
London's metropolitan police are "aware" of the suicide video and believe the timing of its release "can only cause maximum hurt and distress" to the bereaved families, assistant commissioner Andy Hayman said.
Tanweer is seen in a red and white Muslim headscarf, jabbing his finger at the camera.
The BBC said the footage was taken from the pan-Arab television news broadcaster Al-Jazeera.
The 22-year-old bomber killed himself and seven others when he detonated a rucksack bomb on a London Underground train close to Aldgate station.
He and three other British Islamic extremist suicide attackers killed themselves and 52 people, wounding about 700 more, in blasts on three Underground trains and a double-decker bus.
The video statement is the second featuring one of the dead bombers after footage of Mohamed Sidique Khan appeared last September.
- AFP