Another Osama Video Forthcoming?

It certainly looks that way. This one appears to be directly related to the 9/11 attacks and will include the martyr video of one of the hijackers. That kind of video should dismiss some of the insane conspiracy theories, as these hijackers revel in the heinous violence they're about to bring down upon the country at the Twin Towers, the four airliners, and the Pentagon. They're doing so out of their compulsion to Islam and jihad.

People in the intelligence community who have seen the tape feel it is directly related to the 9/11 anniversary since the al Qaeda leader introduces the prerecorded martyr video of one of the 9/11 hijackers, Waleed al Shehri.

Waleed al Shehri was one of the hijackers on American Airlines flight 11 that crashed into the North Tower of the World Trade Center.

UPDATE:
Allah at Hot Air pulls out old al Qaeda video from the archives and notes that al Qaeda has martyr videos in their own archives that they can tout for years to come. They've done this before, and they'll continue doing it until we eliminate them.

UPDATE:
Paul at Wizbang notes that the video release is timed to coincide not only with the 9/11 attacks, but would have come in advance of the testimony given by General Petraeus to Congress. This is propaganda to try and change American public opinion - in particular the public opinion of Democrats who are on the fence.

Al Qaeda terrorists in Iraq are self identifying themselves as such. Michael Totten, who is currently embedded in Iraq, interviewed a US Army Colonel who bristles at the whole idea that the US is inventing al Qaeda as a threat in Iraq:

Some in the United States are unconvinced that Al Qaeda was really at the center of the conflict in Anbar. So I asked Colonel John Charlton how the Army knows Al Qaeda is really who they have been dealing with. He was supremely annoyed by the question.

“We know it’s Al Qaeda,” he said. There is no controversy whatsoever about this in Iraq. My question seemed to him as if it had come from another planet. “They self-identify as Al Qaeda. We didn’t give them that name. That’s what they call themselves. We have their propaganda CDs which have Al Qaeda written all over them.”

It’s not a dumb question, though, if a substantial number of Americans aren’t sure what’s going on in a bottomlessly complicated country eight or more times zones away. And not everyone who underestimated Al Qaeda’s presence is a fool.

Osama and al Qaeda made Ramadi and Anbar the center of the fight for Iraq, and they're losing bigtime.

They need to rally - and the latest videos might have been a step in that direction - get attention off the fact that they've been hammered in Iraq, and instead focus on the homefront where a pliant media and a Democratic party that is beholden to the fringe anti-war leftists where they may have a chance to acquire by Democratic party cut and run what they could not by the field of battle.

Al Qaeda may be hoping that the video and mention of leftist pet causes might help tilt public reaction against a continued US presence in Iraq, freeing al Qaeda to continue operations there and planning for the day the US leaves so as to create a safe haven from which to launch further operations against the West and the US.