The foreign minister of the Afghani ruling Taliban denounced on Tuesday the attacks on the US.
At a press conference in Pakistan, Wakil Ahmad Mutawakel, distanced his movement from the attacks, to which initial press reports linked the Saudi dissident Osama bin Laden, who is harbored by the country.
Bin laden is accused of masterminding twin explosions in the US embassies in Kenya and Tanzania in 1998.
Mutawakel said that Bin Laden “is under control” and is not likely to order such attacks, in which thousands are feared to have died especially in the New York’s World Trade Center, whose two towers have collapsed after two planes smashed into the giant building.
Middle Eastern terrorism was initially linked to the attacks.
A caller claiming to represent a Palestinian group, the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine, told Abu Dhabi television it had carried out the attack, in the first claim of responsibility to be received.
But the group and the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) both denied involvement in the unprecedented attacks – Albawaba.com
