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Purported Bin Laden Tape Says Moussaoui Had Nothing To Do With 9/11
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http://enews.voanews.com/t?ctl=12577ED:3919ACA Man claiming to be
bin Laden said he personally assigned "all 19 brothers" to attack
World Trade Center and Pentagon with hijacked planes





Osama bin LadenA new audiotape purportedly from al-Qaida leader Osama
bin Laden says imprisoned terrorist Zacarias Moussaoui had nothing to
do with the September 11, 2001 attacks on the United States.

The tape was released on an Internet website Tuesday.

A man claiming to be bin Laden said he personally assigned what he
called "all 19 brothers" to attack World Trade Center and the Pentagon
with hijacked planes.

He said Moussaoui had no connection to September 11. He called
Moussaoui's confession false and a result of more than four years in a
U.S. prison.







Zacarias Moussaoui The voice also said the prisoners in Guantanamo had
nothing to do with September 11 and many of them have no ties to
al-Qaida.

Experts have not yet verified if the voice belongs to bin Laden.

Moussaoui is the only person charged in the United States with the
September 11 attacks. A jury earlier this month sentenced him to life
in prison.

U.S. authorities arrested Moussaoui about a month before the attacks
while he was undergoing flight training. He was charged with at least
one death for not telling authorities about plans for an attack.

Moussaoui claimed he was to have been one of the hijackers and fly a
plane into the White House. His lawyers said he exaggerated his role
and is mentally unstable.

Some information for this report was provided by AP and Reuters.