Compilation of Usama Bin Laden Statements 1994 - January 2004

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The US Foreign Broadcast Information Service (FBIS) translated these statements; "this compilation includes interviews with and statements, messages, and writings by Al-Qa'ida leader Usama Bin Ladin monitored by FBIS from March 1994 to 9 January 2004." This copy was obtained by the Federation of American Scientists' Project on American Secrecy and posted in September 2008.


http://www.fas.org/irp/world/para/ubl-fbis.pdf




Afghanistan: Bin Ladin Denies Involvement in Terrorist
Attacks in US
Peshawar Afghan Islamic Press News Agency in Pashto 0855 GMT 16 Sep 01
Peshawar: A statement by Usama Bin Ladin on the US
explosions, translated from Arabic into Pashto. Following the latest explosions in the
United States, some Americans are pointing the finger at me, but I deny that because I
have not done it. The United States has always accused me of these incidents which have
been caused by its enemies. Reiterating once again, I say that I have not done it, and the
perpetrators have carried this out because of their own interest I am residing in the
Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan, and I have held talks with His Eminence Amir olMomenin , who does not allow such
acts to be carried out from Afghanistan's territory. Shaykh Usama Bin Ladin

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Whoever committed the act of 11 September are not the friends of the American people.
I have already said that we are against the American system, not against its people,
whereas in these attacks, the common American people have been killed. According to
my information, the death toll is much higher than what the US Government has stated.
But the Bush administration does not want the panic to spread. The United States should
try to trace the perpetrators of these attacks within itself; the people who are a part of the
US system, but are dissenting against it.

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