Bin Laden: The events of Manhattan were retaliation against the American-Israeli alliance’s aggression against our people in Palestine and Lebanon
November 30, 2007 12:52 pm Bin Laden StatementsBin Laden: Europe must quit Afghan war - Terrorism- msnbc.com, November 29, 2007
CAIRO, Egypt - Al-Qaida chief Osama bin Laden called on the Europeans to stop helping the United States in the war in Afghanistan, according to excerpts of a new audiotape broadcast Thursday on Al-Jazeera television.
Bin Laden said it was unjust for the United States to have invaded Afghanistan for sheltering him after the 9/11 attacks, saying he was the “only one responsible” for the deadly assaults on New York and Washington.
“The events of Manhattan were retaliation against the American-Israeli alliance’s aggression against our people in Palestine and Lebanon, and I am the only one responsible for it. The Afghan people and government knew nothing about it. America knows that,” the al-Qaida leader said.