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The interview below with
Osama bin Laden was conducted by the Karachi, Pakistan, daily newspaper,
Ummat, and published on September 28, 2001, 17 days after the alleged, but unsubstantiated,
al Qaeda attack of September 11, 2001, on the World Trade Center twin towers and
Pentagon.
The interview was sensational. The alleged "mastermind" of 9/11 said
that he and al Qaeda had nothing to do with the 9/11 attack. The British
Broadcasting Corporation's World Monitoring Service had the interview
translated into English and made public on September 29, 2001.
Osama bin Laden's sensational denial was not reported by the US print
and TV media. It was not investigated by the executive branch. No one
in the US Congress called attention to bin Laden's refusal of
responsibility for the greatest humiliation ever inflicted on a
superpower.
To check my memory of the lack of coverage, I googled "Osama bin
Laden's interview denying responsibility for 9/11." Some Internet sites
reproduced the interview, but the only
mainstream news source that I found was a 1 minute YouTube video from
CNN
in which the anchor, after quoting an al Jazeera report of bin Laden's
denial, concludes that "we can all weigh that in the scale of
credibility and come to our own conclusions." In other words, bin Laden
had already been demonized, and his denial was not credible.
The sensational news was unfit for US citizens and was withheld from
them by the american "free press," a press free to lie for the
government but not to tell the truth.
Obviously, if bin Laden had outwitted not only the National Security Agency, the
CIA, the Defense Intelligence Agency and the
FBI but also all 16 US intelligence agencies, all intelligence agencies of Washington's
NATO puppet states, Israel's
Mossad
and in addition the National Security Council, NORAD, US air traffic
control and airport security four times on the same morning, it would be
the greatest feat in world history, a movement-building feat that would
have made al Qaeda the most successful anti-imperialist organization in
human history, an extraordinary victory over "the great satan" that
would have brought millions of new recruits into al Qaeda's ranks. Yet
the alleged "mastermind" denied all responsibility.
I remember decades ago when a terrorist attack occurred in Europe, whether real or an
Operation Gladio
false-flag attack, innumerable organizations would claim credit.
Perhaps this was the CIA's way of diverting attention from itself but it
illustrates that every intelligence service understands the value to an
organization of claiming credit for a successful attack. Although bin
Laden denied responsibility, in 2011 some al Qaeda leaders, realizing
the prestige value of the 9/11 attack, claimed credit for the attack and
criticized Iranian President
Ahmadinejad for questioning the official US story.
Although only a few Americans are aware of the September 28, 2001
interview in which bin Laden states his non-involvement with the 9/11
attacks, many Americans have seen post-2001 videos in which a person
alleged to be bin Laden takes credit for the attacks. There are two
problems with these videos. Experts have examined them and found them to
be fakes, and all of the videos appeared after bin Laden was
reported by the
Pakistan Observer, the Egyptian press and Fox News to have died in mid-December, 2001, from lung disease.
Bin Laden also suffered from kidney disease. According to a CBS news report on January 28, 2002, Osama bin Laden
was hospitalized for dialysis treatment in the Pakistani military hospital in Rawalpindi on September 10, 2001, the day before 9/11
Obviously, a man suffering from terminal lung and kidney disease did
not survive for another decade to be murdered by a US Navy SEAL team in
Abbottabad. A Pakistani TV interview with the neighbor of the alleged
"bin Laden compound" exposed the assassination hoax. This sensational
interview also went unreported by america's "free press." I had the
interview translated, and it is available
here. See also this
video from the
BBC.
Shortly after the alleged assassination 30 members of the SEAL unit
died in a mysterious helicopter crash in Afghanistan, and now we learn
that not a single one of the thousands of sailors on the aircraft
carrier, the
USS Carl Vinson, witnessed bin Laden's alleged
burial at sea from that ship. The press reports with a straight face
that for unexplained reasons it was kept secret from the ship's sailors.
This is supposed to be the explanation of the sailors' emails reporting
to family and friends that they witnessed no burial at sea. Some
speculate that the SEALs were bumped off before their questions to one
another, "Were you on that raid?", reached outside the unit. Apparently,
it doesn't strike the media or the public as strange that the US
government captured and killed the terror mastermind without
interrogating him and without keeping any evidence or presenting any
witnesses to support the assassination claim.
Adolf Hitler claimed that
communists
burned down the Reichstag and that Polish troops had crossed the
frontier and attacked Germany. With 9/11, Americans experienced
Washington's version of these grand lies. An omniscient bin Laden dying
from terminal illnesses in distant Afghanistan defeated the American
National Security State and drove his attack through the walls of the
Pentagon itself, requiring for our defense a "
war on terror"
that destroyed US civil liberties and financially ruined the country in
order to prevent the triumph of a man who died of natural causes in
December 2001.
On May 9, 2011, Professor Michel Chossudovsky republished the September 28, 2001, Osama bin Laden interview in
Global Research.
Interview with Osama bin Laden. Osama Denies his Involvement in 9/11
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