The Pentagon released Thursday a video that it says implicates Osama Bin Laden in the 11 September attacks on New York and the Pentagon. The 40-minute recording is of very poor audio and visual quality.
The tape was recorded on November 9 in Kandahar, Afghanistan. US officials disclosed they found the videotape in a private residence in Jalalabad. According to the CNN, Bin Laden and the other three men seated with him make numerous references to various al Qaeda members having dreams of planes hitting tall buildings at least a year before the attacks.
Speaking of the hijackers, bin Laden states, "They were trained and we did not reveal the operation to them until they are there and just before they boarded the planes."
The Suadi dissident indicates he knew for several days that September 11 would be the date of the attacks. Additionally, he had turned on his radio in advance to listen to coverage of the attacks and that he had underestimated the damage that would be inflicted on the World Trade Center.
Bin Laden is quoted as saying: "We calculated in advance the number of casualties from the enemy, who would be killed based on the position of the tower." This comment referred to hijacked airliners which hit and destroyed the twin towers of the World Trade Center in New York. "We calculated that the floors that would be hit would be three or four floors. I was the most optimistic of them all," he added. (Albawaba.com)
