Al-Jazeera Says Will Play Bin Laden Tape

CAIRO, Egypt – The Arab television station Al-Jazeera said Friday it would broadcast a tape from al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden on an evening newscast.

Al-Jazeera said the tape deals with the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks on the United States and their consequences. While the announcer said the message was an audiotape, the station’s Web site called it a video.

The Qatari-based channel did not say how it had received the tape nor how it had concluded that it was authentic.

The channel has previously received audio- and videotapes from people linked to al-Qaida.