Via Brian Ross and ABC.
Osama bin Laden will soon send a video message to America, according to a Web site regularly used by al Qaeda.
A posting late this afternoon said, "Soon, with the permission of God, a new visual tape, the Sheikh, the Lion, Osama bin Laden. May God protect him."
Bin Laden has not been seen on a new video since October 2004.
A still frame accompanying the announcement shows bin Laden with an all-black beard. In his 2004 appearance, his facial hair was predominantly gray.
Federal law enforcement authorities say that another Web site had posted a message on Sept. 2, promising "a special gift to be delivered on the blessed day of the invasion of Manhattan.