Osama Bin Laden has for the first time admitted that his al-Qaeda group launched the attacks on the World Trade Center in New York and the Pentagon, the Sunday Telegraph reported on Sunday.
Osama Bin Laden has for the first time admitted that his al-Qaeda group launched the attacks on the World Trade Center in New York and the Pentagon, the Sunday Telegraph reported on Sunday.
In a previously undisclosed video which has been circulated for 14 days among his supporters, the paper said, Osama bin Laden confessed 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 says that the World Trade Center's twin towers were a "legitimate target".
The paper said that the footage, to which it obtained access in the Middle East Saturday, was not made for public release via the al-Jazeera television network used by bin Laden for propaganda purposes in the past. It is believed to be intended as a rallying call to al-Qaeda members, the paper said.
Bin Laden has publicly issued four previous videos since September 11, always denying carrying out the atrocities.
(People's Daily November 11, 2001)
