Tue, May 23, 2006
Voice Believed To Be Terrorist Leader Calls Confession
"Void"
ANN REALTIME REPORTING
05.23.06 1830EDT: An audio tape believed to be the latest message
from al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden claims Zacarias Moussaoui was
not involved with the terrorist attacks on September 11,
2001.
"He had no connection at all with September 11," says a voice on
the tape, believed to be that of the terrorist leader. "I am the
one in charge of the 19 brothers and I never assigned brother
Zacarias to be with them in that mission."
"Since Zacarias Moussaoui was still learning how to fly, he
wasn't No. 20 in the group, as your government has claimed," the
voice continued. The voice also says
Moussaoui's confession that he helped plan the
attacks -- and that he was originally meant to
pilot a fifth airliner into the White House -- was "void," and was
due to "pressures exercised against him during four and a half
years" as a federal prisoner.
The tape was posted Tuesday, on a web site used in the past by
al Qaeda.
Should the voice be proven to be that of the terrorist leader --
and there has never been a false bin Laden recording -- it will be
the latest message from bin Laden to show that, despite US efforts
to capture or kill him, he is still very much alive... and that he
remains relevant on the world scene.
An anonymous US intelligence official told Fox News the tape is
"propaganda plain and simple," but added that such a recording from
bin Laden wasn't unexpected -- as the US government has been
monitoring Islamic websites for such a response to the federal
jury's decision, reached earlier this month, that Moussaoui was
responsible for at least one death on 9/11.
As Aero-News reported, the jury in Moussaoui's
death penalty trial could not reach a unanimous decision on death,
so Moussaoui was instead given a life prison sentence -- which he
recently started serving at a SuperMax prison in Colorado.
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