Qatar's Al Jazeera television said today it will air a new voice recording of al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden in which he claims responsibility for a December 25 attempt to blow up a US-bound airline.

Nigerian Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab is charged with attempting to blow up a Delta Airlines plane as it approached Detroit on a flight from Amsterdam with almost 300 people on board.

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