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Bin Laden Admits WTC Attack

David Bamber, Telegraph UK | 11.11.2001 02:54

Osama bin Laden has for the first time admitted his al Qaida group carried out the September 11 attacks. The Sunday Telegraph newspaper says it has obtained previously undisclosed video footage in which bin Laden makes his confession. In it he says that "history should be a witness that we are terrorists".

(Filed: 11/11/2001)

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.

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.

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David Bamber, Telegraph UK
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  1. how very convenient — Sarah
  2. The telegraph? — Cynic
  3. Wake up you idiots!! — intruder
  4. It's still not true — Cynic
  5. so what — sandino
  6. The Telegraph? — Max
  7. he admitted nothing of the sort — dwigh heet
  8. been here, done that — bh
  9. OSAMA IS TOO SEXY FOR YOU — XOXOXOXOXOXOXOXO