Originally Posted by helterskelter808

Before all the fake videos emerged after he was long dead, here's what Bin Laden said immediately after 9/11:

"The U.S. government has consistently blamed me for being behind every occasion its enemies attack it. I would like to assure the world that I did not plan the recent attacks"

and:

"The attackers could be anybody, people who are part of the American system yet rebel against it, or some group that wants to make this century a century of confrontation between Islam and Christianity"