The Australian Broadcasting Corp (ABC) has obtained a video it said showed al-Qaeda militants rehearsing an attack on world leaders at a golf tournament and on a motorcade in what appears to be Washington.
The ABC broadcasted extracts from the video Sunday night and said the tape would be sent for detailed analysis by US military intelligence.
The grainy video, in which ABC said Arab, Pakistani and African fighters spoke in English, was discovered by the Northern Alliance in an abandoned school-turned-training-camp near Kabul shortly after the hardline Taliban fled the Afghan capital.
The US is still hunting Osama bin Laden, the al-Qaeda leader Washington has accused of masterminding the Sept. 11 attacks on New York and Washington.
Since the rout of the Taliban last month, various news organizations have stumbled on bomb-making pamphlets, training manuals and other documents in abandoned camps believed to have been run by bin Laden's organization.
The ABC said the amateur video film in its possession was handed to its reporters by Northern Alliance officials.
Running for more than six hours, it shows al-Qaeda members rehearsing hostage-taking scenarios and assassinations, according to the extracts.
In one scene, the scenario looked like a Washington road system, ABC said. In another, trainees with weapons hidden in golf bags carried out a rocket launcher attack on dummies meant apparently to represent world leaders at a golf tournament. A man pretended to play golf in the background.
The video also shows trainees carrying out a kidnapping after stopping a car, and storming buildings where dummies with balloons over their hearts represented their opponents.
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