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Originally Posted by willravel
Osama Bin Laden has never once taken responsibility for 9/11. All he has done is given much praise and commendation for those responsible.
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A simple googling reveals the truth of the matter:
Bin Laden: Moussaoui Not Linked to 9/11
By MAAMOUN YOUSSEF, Associated Press Writer
Tue May 23, 5:34 PM
CAIRO, Egypt - Osama bin Laden purportedly said in an audio tape Tuesday that Zacarias Moussaoui _ the only person convicted in the U.S. for the Sept. 11 attacks _ had nothing to do with the operation.
"He had no connection at all with Sept. 11," the speaker, claiming to be bin Laden, said in the tape posted on the Internet.
"I am the one in charge of the 19 brothers and I never assigned brother Zacarias to be with them in that mission," he said, referring to the 19 hijackers.
The al-Qaida chief said the Sept. 11 hijackers were divided into two groups, "pilots and assistants."
"Since Zacarias Moussaoui was still learning how to fly, he wasn't No. 20 in the group, as your government has claimed," bin Laden said. "It knows this very well," he added.
Read the complete article here:
http://www.comcast.net/news/internat...ookieattempt=1
Then there's this:
Bin Laden said he thought of the method of attacking U.S. skyscrapers when he saw Israeli aircraft bombing tower blocks in Lebanon in 1982.
"We decided to destroy towers in America," he said. "God knows that it had not occurred to our mind to attack the towers, but after our patience ran out and we saw the injustice and inflexibility of the American-Israeli alliance toward our people in Palestine and Lebanon, this came to my mind."
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http://www.pbs.org/newshour/updates/..._10-29-04.html)
And this from one of bin laden's flunkies:
"Al-Qa'ida takes pride in that, on September 11, it destroyed the elements of America's strategic defense, which the former U.S.S.R. and every other hostile state could not harm. These elements are: early warning, preventive strike, and the principle of deterrence."
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http://www.memri.org/bin/articles.cg...=sd&ID=SP34402)
And this from Khalid Sheikh Muhammad:
“I was responsible for the 9/11 operation, from A to Z.”
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http://www.defenselink.mil/news/news....aspx?id=32456)
Reuters reports his admission here:
http://uk.reuters.com/article/topNew...BrandChannel=0
"The events of Manhattan were retaliation against the American-Israeli alliance's aggression against our people in Palestine and Lebanon, and I am the only one responsible for it. The Afghan people and government knew nothing about it. America knows that," the al-Qaida leader said.