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The BBC's John Simpson said a source who had met Mr Bin Laden just two days ago said the Saudi dissident had been stripped of all of his complicated and sophisticated communications equipment.
An aide for Mr Bin Laden quoted him as denying he had planned the attack, but calling it a "punishment from Allah".
"I have no information about the attackers or their aims and I don't have any links with them," the aide quoted Mr Bin Laden as saying. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/south_asia/1543135.stmOctober 16, 2001-- An interview with Osama bin Laden was published in a Karachi-based Pakistani daily newspaper, Ummat, on September 28, 2001. In this interview, bin Laden says of the September 11 attacks in the US:
"I have already said that I am not involved in the 11 September attacks in the United States. As a Muslim, I try my best to avoid telling a lie. I had no knowledge of these attacks, nor do I consider the killing of innocent women, children and other humans as an appreciable act. Islam strictly forbids causing harm to innocent women, children and other people. Such a practice is forbidden even in the course of a battle. http://www.khilafah.com/home/category.php?DocumentID=2392&TagID=2
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