Bin Laden's Denial of 9/11
May 8, 2011 at 5:17 am
(This post was last modified: May 8, 2011 at 5:30 am by Rayaan.)
CNN Wrote:Islamic militant leader Osama bin Laden, the man the United States considers the prime suspect in last week's terrorist attacks on New York and Washington, denied any role Sunday in the actions believed to have killed thousands.
In a statement issued to the Arabic satellite channel Al Jazeera, based in Qatar, bin Laden said, "The U.S. government has consistently blamed me for being behind every occasion its enemies attack it. I would like to assure the world that I did not plan the recent attacks, which seems to have been planned by people for personal reasons," bin Laden's statement said.
Full article: http://articles.cnn.com/2001-09-16/us/in...r?_s=PM:US
Wikinews Wrote:One message includes bin Laden's denial of having anything to do with the September 11, 2001 attacks in New York City, Washington, D.C. and Pennsylvania.
"Following the latest explosions in the United States, some Americans are pointing the finger at me, but I deny that because I have not done it. The United States has always accused me of these incidents which have been caused by its enemies. Reiterating once again, I say that I have not done it, and the perpetrators have carried this out because of their own interest," said bin Laden on September 16, 2001, just five days after the attacks.
Bin Laden also states that he was living in Afghanistan at the time of the attacks and that "I have held talks with His Eminence Amir ol-Momenin [Taleban leader Mola Mohammad Omar Mojahed], who does not allow such acts to be carried out from Afghanistan's territory." Again on September 28, 2001 in an interview with Karachi Ummat, bin Laden denies any involvement with the attacks and further denied that al-Qaeda had anything to do with plotting and carrying out the attacks.
Full article: http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Wikileaks_ob...ted_by_CIA
Those are what bin Laden said just a few days after the 9/11 attack when he was interviewed. But is that the truth? I don't know. I can't say without a reasonable doubt whether or not he was responsible for the September attacks, and either way, I don't think that anyone here can prove that what he said is not true. But personally, if he did plan the attack, then I think that he wouldn't try to hide it from anyone since there were times when he openly issued "Jihad" against infidelity and one time I read one of his interviews in which he said that the 1996 bombings of American servicemen in Riyadh and at the Khobar Towers barracks were an act of "praiseworthy terrorism." So, why would he reveal all those things and ironically deny everything about 9/11?
Also, there was a famous video of him which was found in December 2001 (or perhaps earlier) and shown all over the mainstream news as a "compelling" evidence that Osama bin Laden was behind the September 11 attacks. But there has been a lot of controversy about the authenticity of the video. I have read that the "independent" translators may have intentionally mistranslated the barely audible speech in the video to make it seem as if bin Laden was actually involved in the 9/11.
See the two articles below:
- http://whatreallyhappened.com/WRHARTICLE...atape.html - http://911review.org/Sept11Wiki/BinLaden...ideo.shtml
