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WE DID IT

By Wayne Francis And Andy Lines

ANTI-TERROR agents are probing an internet statement by a sinister group which claims it carried out the World Trade Center atrocity, The Mirror has learned.

Scotland Yard and the FBI have both been alerted after a communique posted on the internet was uncovered in London.

A group calling itself the Secret Army For Justice says it carried out the September 11 outrage and is behind the current anthrax attacks.

Mirror investigators uncovered the single page document on the internet - before it vanished.

The SAJ, unknown to anti-terror units until now, has vowed to carry out further atrocities.

The website, in Arabic, was headed: "The first communique issued by the Secret Army for Justice."

It declared Mohamed Atta, the suspected ringleader of the suicide jet hijackers, was the head of the underground group's Cell 15.

It said: "The Army announces in honour, glory and joy the death of the martyrs of Cell 15, headed by the leader brother Mohamed Atta, who sacrificed themselves after they had sacrificed time and money for the pride of the nation.

"The spread of anthrax and the operation of the Cell 15 brothers on the 11th of September are the beginning of more painful and wider operations in which the Secret Army shall preserve its right to use new weapons and tactics."

The extremist Islamic group insists it operates independently from terror leader Osama bin Laden.

The statement said: "Let it be known that the Secret Army for Justice is not affiliated to al-Qaeda ...and does not receive any direct instructions from Osama bin Laden.

"The Army works independently of al-Qaeda, uses different methods and tactics, and has specific objectives." The SAJ said the group is built up of secret cells around the world, aimed at "directing painful strikes against the United States".

The terror strikes were revenge, it claimed, for the US "violation and denial of the rights of the Palestinian people on their land".

It added: "The Secret Army for Justice declares its responsibility for the operation and continues its march on the road of the heroic martyrdom operation in New York, Washington and Pennsylvania. We are issuing this communique now that we have decided to address the whole world and inform it of the objectives of the Secret Army."

It is signed in Arabic with a logo incorporating a sword which reads: "An eye to an eye, and he who drew first blood is the oppressor."

A language expert said it was written in Classical Arabic of Middle Eastern origin. This ties in with established links between al-Qaeda and Egyptian radicals. Another clue is the spelling of September which matches a form used only in Syria, Lebanon, Jordan and Palestine.

Bin Laden's No2 in al-Qaeda is an Egyptian - Ayman al-Zawahiri, the former leader of Egyptian Jihad, who is on the list of the FBI's 22 most wanted terrorists.

Anti-terror investigators now believe the hijackers were a hand-picked group who had little, if any, contact with al-Qaeda.

It is believed Mohamed Atta masterminded the cells. An Anti-Terrorist Squad spokesman said last night: "It is possible that this is a real organisation who represent a real threat. There have been claims of responsibility on the internet before and they've been the work of lone individuals or cranks.

"But, together with the FBI, we have to investigate them and we are researching it."

Paul Bresson, of the FBI, said: "I had not heard of this."

He asked The Mirror to pass on details of the statement and said it would be looked at.