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Article: Tape shows bin Laden saying destruction at World Trade Center greater than expected
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- AP Worldstream
- Article date:
- December 13, 2001
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Dateline: WASHINGTON
Osama bin Laden contentedly recalled the Sept. 11 suicide attacks
against the United States on a videotape released Thursday by the
Pentagon, saying the destruction exceeded his estimates and the event
"benefitted Islam greatly."
The hijackings were "a martyrdom operation," Bin Laden said in a conversation
with two aides and a Saudi sheik, but those who carried them out didn'
t know the precise details until just before they boarded the planes.
The tape, amateurish in quality but chilling nonetheless, was released
as part of a U.S. goverment effort to support claims that bin Laden
was the mastermind behind the attacks that killed ...