IP: Bin Laden: Yes, I did it (London Telegraph 11/11/01)

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

> Date: Mon, 12 Nov 2001 12:46:25 -0800
> From: Ari Ollikainen <Ari () OLTECO com>
> Subject: Bin Laden: Yes, I did it (London Telegraph 11/11/01)
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>
> Bin Laden: Yes, I did it
> By David Bamber
> (Filed: 11/11/2001)
> http://www.portal.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2001/11/11 
> /wbin11.xml
>
> OSAMA BIN LADEN has for the first time admitted that his al-Qa'eda
> group carried out the attacks on the World Trade Centre and the
> Pentagon, the Telegraph can reveal.
>
> Osama bin Laden with journalist Hamid Mir during the interview for a
> Pakistani newspaper
>
> In a previously undisclosed video which has been circulating for 14
> days among his supporters, he confesses that "history should be a
> witness that we are terrorists. Yes, we kill their innocents".
>
> In the footage, shot in the Afghan mountains at the end of October, a
> smiling bin Laden goes on to say that the World Trade Centre's twin
> towers were a "legitimate target" and the pilots who hijacked the
> planes were "blessed by Allah".
>
> The killing of at least 4,537 people was justified, he claims,
> because they were "not civilians" but were working for the American
> system.
>
> Bin Laden also makes a direct personal threat against Tony Blair, the
> Prime Minister, for the first time, and warns nations such as
> Australia, Germany and Japan to stay out of the conflict.
>
> The video will form the centrepiece of Britain and America's new
> evidence against bin Laden, to be released this Wednesday.
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