Re: 911 Conspiracy
Hey Keyboard Jihadis/Conspiracy Theorists… see below, your “fearless” leader seems to disagree with you on who’s responsible.
It’s amusing that the primary reason for your halfhearted denial is that Arab/Muslim jihadis were too stupid and powerless to pull off an attack like this. Why such a low opinion of the mujahideen? Didn’t they bring down the soviet empire w/one had tied behind their backs?
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20060524/wl_afp/usattacksqaeda_060524190048
Bin Laden says Moussaoui not involved in 9/11: audio tape
PARIS (AFP) - Osama bin Laden said convicted Frenchman Zacarias Moussaoui falsely confessed to being a September 11 plotter, according to an audio message, which the CIA said was authentic.
“I am responsible for assigning the roles of the 19 brothers to conduct these conquests and I did not order Zacarias to be with those on this mission,” said speaker, who claimed to be the Al Qaeda leader.
“His confession that he was assigned to participate in those raids is a false confession,” said the recording released Tuesday on the As-Sahab Internet site, frequently used by Al Qaeda.
“No intelligent person doubts (the confession) is a result of the pressure put upon him for the past four and a half years,” the message continued.
Moussaoui, a 37-year-old Frenchman of Moroccan origin, is the only man convicted in the United States over the September 11, 2001 attacks. A US court this month sentenced him to life imprisonment.
He told the court he would have piloted a jet into the White House on September 11, 2001 had he not been arrested beforehand. He later tried in vain to withdraw his guilty plea.
Nearly 3,000 people were killed in the attacks when 19 hijackers took control of four planes and used them as missiles against the United States. Two planes demolished the World Trade Center towers in New York, one smashed into the Pentagon and another ploughed into a field in Pennsylvania.
The speaker in the message, which was accompanied by a photograph of Bin Laden, said the September 11 attackers were split in two groups: pilots and support teams to control the hijacked planes.
Moussaoui was learning how to fly so he could not have been the so-called 20th hijacker supposed to help control the airplanes, as Washington had claimed, the voice said.
"And if Moussaoui was studying aviation to become a pilot of one of the planes, then let him tell us the names of those assigned to help him control the plane.
“But he won’t be able to tell us their names, for a simple reason: that in fact they don’t exist.”
The voice on the tape recalled Moussaoui had been arrested two weeks before the attacks, and said that if he had been part of the plot then the other attackers would immediately have fled the United States.
In Washington, the CIA said the voice belonged to Bin Laden.
“Following a technical analysis of the tape, it is revealed the voice is indeed Osama bin Laden’s,” the CIA spokeswoman said.
But US analysts said Bin Laden himself lacked credibility.
“If there is one person on Earth who has zero credibility in terms of testimonial evidence, it would be bin Laden,” said Jonathan Turley, a law professor at George Washington University.
“Even if he was not a mass-murderer, these types of statements simply are not valuable as a source of evidence,” he said.
A US judge this month formally sentenced Moussaoui to life imprisonment without parole for his role in the September 11 conspiracy, after a jury rejected the death penalty.
According to the recording, Bin Laden also said that the prisoners being held at the US base at Guantanamo in Cuba “have no links with the events of September 11.”
The Al Qaeda leader’s previous broadcast statement was an audiotape released by Qatar-based Al-Jazeera television network on April 23, in which he called on Muslim fighters to go to Sudan to wage war against “crusader thieves”.