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5.1.02
Afghan chief doubts bin Laden was WTC mastermind
I, too, S-E-E-E-E-E-E-E-E-E-RIOUSLY doubt it.
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http://www.rense.com/general24/formerafghan.htm
Former Afghan President Doubts Osama Behind WTC Attack
By Izvestia
5-1-2
In a rare interview granted to the Russian daily Izvestia on April 14
and published today, the leader of the anti-Taliban Northern Alliance,
Burhanuddin Rabbani, dismissed Osama bin Laden as a "small fish," who
could not possibly have organized the attack, and called for a major
investigation of the events of Sept. 11.
Rabbani's statement is notable against the background of the latest
media hype around bin Laden, that began with the convenient surfacing of
a new video allegedly confirming bin Laden's authorship of the attack.
Here are relevant excerpts from the Rabbani interview:
Q: Are Osama bin Laden and Mullah Omar still alive? If so, where are
they now?
RABBANI: Their fate doesn't interest me. They are very small fish.
Q: But they destroyed the peace of the whole world.
RABBANI: It interests me very much, to know, how such a complex,
multilayered, painstakingly planned and technically masterfully
organized terrorist operation, as the attack on the U.S.A. on Sept. 11,
could have been organized and carried out by a small group of bandits,
sitting in uninhabited Afghan mountains. Personally this is
incomprehensible to me.
Q: You mean, you doubt, that the guilty party in the American tragedy of
the 21st Century was bin Laden?
RABBANI: And don't you doubt it, too? A big investigation is absolutely
necessary. Of course, anything is possible. I never met bin Laden, but
people have come to me, who sat at the same table with him, and observed
him in various situations.
Not a single one of these told me that bin Laden is a great personality.
On the contrary, all who knew him spoke of him as a simple field
commander. Bin Laden sat for a long time in the caves. One does not
control the world from such a place.
Q: Is it possible, that other people were behind bin Laden? And are
behind him now?
RABBANI: Without a doubt. And I would like to know who exactly.
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