September 2001: Bin Laden Says He Wasn't Behind Attacks
May 4, 2011
In a statement issued to the Arabic satellite channel Al Jazeera, based in Qatar, bin Laden said, “The US government has consistently blamed me for being behind every occasion its enemies attack it. “I would like to assure the world that I did not plan the recent attacks, which seems to have been planned by people for personal reasons,” bin Laden’s statement said.