Bin Laden in TV video.A VIDEO showing al Qaida leader Osama bin Laden Osama bin Laden: see bin Laden, Osama. admitting responsibility for the September 11 attacks September 11 attacks Series of airline hijackings and suicide bombings against U.S. targets perpetrated by 19 militants associated with the Islamic extremist group al-Qaeda. was shown on Arab television last night. Al-Jazeera aired the video, the first footage of the al Qaida leader to surface in more than a year. ``We decided to destroy towers in America, '' said bin Laden. He said the attack was carried out because ``we are a free people . . . and we want to regain the freedom of our nation. '' Al-Jazeera, based in Qatar, did not say how it had received the tape. |
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