Two of the Sept. 11 hijackers, including ringleader Mohammed Atta, were shown in a video posted Sunday on a British newspaper's Website.

The hour-long video, dated Jan. 18, 2000, was made in Afghanistan for release after their deaths, according to the Sunday Times.

The paper said US and al-Qaida sources had verified the authenticity of the tape, which showed Egyptian-born Atta and Lebanese Ziad Jarrah laughing and joking, before turning serious and speaking intently to a camera.

There is no sound on the tape and lip-readers have failed to decipher their words, the paper said.

It was the first to show Atta and Jarrah together, and helped fill in a gap in the chronology of Atta's life.

Atta flew one of the planes that slammed into New York's World Trade Center, while Jarrah piloted United Airlines flight 93 that crashed into a Pennsylvania field.

The paper said it obtained the video through "a previously tested channel," without giving details.
 
(Xinhua News Agency October 2, 2006)