DUBAI, Sept 12: The Al Jazeera network on Friday aired a new videotape of a man it said was one of the Sept 11 hijackers, reading his will and saying it was a Muslim’s duty to fight the “American enemy”.

The tape came two days after Al Qaeda leaders Osama bin Laden and Ayman al Zawahri issued audio- and videotapes marking the Sept 11, 2001, attacks on US cities.

“America is the enemy that every Muslim should fight. There is no way the Arab nation can be saved except through jihad (holy war),” said the speaker, identified as Saeed Alghamdi, wearing military fatigues and an Arab headscarf.

The tape also showed Alghamdi during military exercises in a remote area which Al Jazeera said was in Afghanistan.

He was shown jumping out of a truck and opening fire with an automatic rifle, and training on a rocket-propelled grenade launcher and a heavy machinegun.

Alghamdi was among those who seized control of United Airlines flight 93, which crashed in a field in Pennsylvania after an apparent struggle on board. He had several aliases and may have been Saudi Arabian, but his exact background remains unclear.

The speaker promised more attacks by Muslim fighters against the United States.

“I tell you our battle with you will continue... We will erase the shame (inflicted on Arabs) with our hands and all our force.”

“The only solution is for them (Americans) to leave the lands of the Muslims.”

In his taped will, the speaker declared his readiness to die in a suicide attack.—Reuters