<TABLE cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=6 width="100%" border=0><TBODY><TR><TD class=alt2 style="BORDER-RIGHT: 1px inset; BORDER-TOP: 1px inset; BORDER-LEFT: 1px inset; BORDER-BOTTOM: 1px inset">Originally Posted by doc mercer
Believe he is what?
Bin Laden IS NOT WANTED with anything to do with 9-11 events ...
hmmmm ... please explain why that is
Please do
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You are always posting nonsense about Bin Laden not being wanted in connection with 9/11.
From Wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osama_bin_Laden
September 11, 2001 attacks
The Federal Bureau of Investigation has stated that evidence linking Al-Qaeda and bin Laden to the attacks of September 11 is clear and irrefutable.<SUP class=reference id=cite_ref-57>[58]</SUP> The Government of the United Kingdom reached the same conclusion regarding Al Qaeda and Osama bin Laden's culpability for the September 11, 2001, attacks.<SUP class=reference id=cite_ref-58>[59]</SUP> Bin Laden initially denied involvement in the September 11, 2001 attacks. On 16 September 2001, bin Laden read a statement later broadcast by Qatar's Al Jazeera satellite channel denying responsibility for the attack.<SUP class=reference id=cite_ref-59>[60]</SUP>
In a videotape recovered by US forces in November 2001 in Jalalabad, bin Laden was seen discussing the attack with Khaled al-Harbi in a way indicating foreknowledge.<SUP class=reference id=cite_ref-60>[61]</SUP> The tape was broadcast on various news networks on 13 December 2001. Some have disputed this translation however. Arabist Dr. Abdel El M. Husseini stated: "This translation is very problematic. At the most important places where it is held to prove the guilt of bin Laden, it is not identical with the Arabic."<SUP class=reference id=cite_ref-61>[62]</SUP>
In the 2004 Osama bin Laden video, bin Laden abandoned his denials without retracting past statements. In it he stated he had personally directed the 19 hijackers.<SUP class=reference id=cite_ref-cbc-2004_6-1>[7]</SUP><SUP class=reference id=cite_ref-62>[63]</SUP> In the 18-minute tape, played on Al-Jazeera, four days before the American presidential election, bin Laden accused U.S. President George W. Bush of negligence on the hijacking of the planes on September 11.<SUP class=reference id=cite_ref-cbc-2004_6-2>[7]</SUP>
According to the tapes, bin Laden claimed he was inspired to destroy the World Trade Center after watching the destruction of towers in Lebanon by Israel during the 1982 Lebanon War.<SUP class=reference id=cite_ref-63>[64]</SUP>
In two other tapes aired by Al Jazeera in 2006, Osama bin Laden announces,
Despite this, bin Laden is reported to have complained as recently as November 2007 of the lack "of evidence admissible in court" tying him and his organization to the 9/11 attack.<SUP class=reference id=cite_ref-66>[67]</SUP>
Criminal charges and attempted extradition
<TABLE class=infobox style="FONT-SIZE: 95%; WIDTH: 23em"><CAPTION style="FONT-SIZE: larger">Osama bin Muhammad bin 'Awad bin Laden</CAPTION><TBODY><TR><TD style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-FAMILY: Georgia, serif; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #00c; TEXT-ALIGN: center" colSpan=2>FBI Ten Most Wanted Fugitives</TD></TR><TR><TD style="TEXT-ALIGN: center" colSpan=2>
Osama bin Muhammad bin 'Awad bin Laden</TD></TR><TR><TH style="TEXT-ALIGN: right">Born:</TH><TD>March 10, 1957 (1957-03-10) (age 51)
Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
</TD></TR><TR><TH style="TEXT-ALIGN: right">Charged with:</TH><TD>Murder of U.S. nationals outside the United States
Conspiracy to murder U.S. nationals outside the United States
Attack on a federal facility resulting in death</TD></TR><TR><TH style="TEXT-ALIGN: right">Date Added:</TH><TD>June 7, 1999</TD></TR><TR><TH style="TEXT-ALIGN: right">Number on List:</TH><TD>#456</TD></TR><TR><TH style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 90%; COLOR: #fff; FONT-FAMILY: Georgia, serif; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #00c; TEXT-ALIGN: center" colSpan=2>Currently Top Ten Fugitive</TH></TR></TBODY></TABLE>
The 9/11 Commission Report concludes, "In February 1996, Sudanese officials began approaching officials from the United States and other governments, asking what actions of theirs might ease foreign pressure. In secret meetings with Saudi officials, Sudan offered to expel bin Ladin to Saudi Arabia and asked the Saudis to pardon him. US officials became aware of these secret discussions, certainly by March. Saudi officials apparently wanted bin Ladin expelled from Sudan. They had already revoked his citizenship, however, and would not tolerate his presence in their country. Also bin Ladin may have no longer felt safe in Sudan, where he had already escaped at least one assassination attempt that he believed to have been the work of the Egyptian or Saudi regimes, or both. On 19 May 1996, bin Ladin left Sudan—significantly weakened, despite his ambitions and organizational skills. He returned to Afghanistan."<SUP class=reference id=cite_ref-67>[68]</SUP> The 9/11 Commission Report further states "In late 1995, when Bin Ladin was still in Sudan, the State Department and the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) learned that Sudanese officials were discussing with the Saudi government the possibility of expelling Bin Ladin. US Ambassador Timothy Carney encouraged the Sudanese to pursue this course. The Saudis, however, did not want Bin Ladin, giving as their reason their revocation of his citizenship. Sudan’s minister of defense, Fatih Erwa, has claimed that Sudan offered to hand Bin Ladin over to the United States. The Commission has found no credible evidence that this was so. Ambassador Carney had instructions only to push the Sudanese to expel Bin Ladin. Ambassador Carney had no legal basis to ask for more from the Sudanese since, at the time, there was no indictment outstanding."<SUP class=reference id=cite_ref-68>[69]</SUP>
On 16 March 1998, Libya issued the first official international Interpol arrest warrant against Bin Laden and three other people for killing two German citizens in Libya on 10 March 1994, one of which is thought to have been a German counter-intelligence officer. Bin Laden is still wanted by the Libyan government. <SUP class=reference id=cite_ref-69>[70]</SUP><SUP class=reference id=cite_ref-70>[71]</SUP>
On 8 June 1998, a United States grand jury indicted Osama bin Laden on charges of killing five Americans and two Indians in the 13 November 1995, truck bombing of a US-operated Saudi National Guard training center in Riyadh.<SUP class=reference id=cite_ref-cron_71-0>[72]</SUP> Bin Laden was charged with "conspiracy to attack defense utilities of the United States" and prosecutors further charged that bin Laden is the head of the "terrorist" organization called al Qaeda, and that he was a major financial backer of Islamic fighters worldwide.<SUP class=reference id=cite_ref-cron_71-1>[72]</SUP> Bin Laden denied involvement but praised the attack.
On 4 November 1998, Osama bin Laden was indicted by a Federal Grand Jury in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York, on charges of Murder of US Nationals Outside the United States, Conspiracy to Murder US Nationals Outside the United States, and Attacks on a Federal Facility Resulting in Death<SUP class=reference id=cite_ref-72>[73]</SUP> for his alleged role in the 1998 United States embassy bombings in Kenya and Tanzania.
The evidence against bin Laden included courtroom testimony by former Al Qaeda members and satellite phone records.<SUP class=reference id=cite_ref-73>[74]</SUP><SUP class=reference id=cite_ref-74>[75]</SUP>
On 7 June 1999, bin Laden became the 456th person listed on the US Federal Bureau of Investigation's Ten Most Wanted Fugitives list, following his indictment along with others for capital crimes in the 1998 embassy attacks.
Attempts at assassination and requests for the extradition of bin Laden from the Taliban of Afghanistan were met with failure prior to the bombing of Afghanistan in October 2001.<SUP class=reference id=cite_ref-75>[76]</SUP> In 1999, US President Bill Clinton convinced the United Nations to impose sanctions against Afghanistan in an attempt to force the Taliban to extradite him.
Years later, on 10 October 2001, bin Laden appeared as well on the initial list of the FBI's top 22 Most Wanted Terrorists, which was released to the public by the President of the United States George W. Bush, in direct response to the attacks of 9/11, but which was again based on the indictment for the 1998 embassy attack. Bin Laden was among a group of thirteen fugitive terrorists wanted on that latter list for questioning about the 1998 embassy bombings. Bin Laden remains the only fugitive ever to be listed on both FBI fugitive lists.
After the bombing of Afghanistan began in October 2001, the Taliban did offer to turn over Osama bin Laden to a third party country in return for the US ending the bombing along with evidence that Osama bin Laden was involved in the 9/11 attacks. This offer was rejected by George W Bush stating that this was no longer negotiable with Bush responding that "There's no need to discuss innocence or guilt. We know he's guilty."<SUP class=reference id=cite_ref-76>[77]</SUP>
Believe he is what?
Bin Laden IS NOT WANTED with anything to do with 9-11 events ...
hmmmm ... please explain why that is
Please do
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You are always posting nonsense about Bin Laden not being wanted in connection with 9/11.
From Wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osama_bin_Laden
September 11, 2001 attacks
The Federal Bureau of Investigation has stated that evidence linking Al-Qaeda and bin Laden to the attacks of September 11 is clear and irrefutable.<SUP class=reference id=cite_ref-57>[58]</SUP> The Government of the United Kingdom reached the same conclusion regarding Al Qaeda and Osama bin Laden's culpability for the September 11, 2001, attacks.<SUP class=reference id=cite_ref-58>[59]</SUP> Bin Laden initially denied involvement in the September 11, 2001 attacks. On 16 September 2001, bin Laden read a statement later broadcast by Qatar's Al Jazeera satellite channel denying responsibility for the attack.<SUP class=reference id=cite_ref-59>[60]</SUP>
In a videotape recovered by US forces in November 2001 in Jalalabad, bin Laden was seen discussing the attack with Khaled al-Harbi in a way indicating foreknowledge.<SUP class=reference id=cite_ref-60>[61]</SUP> The tape was broadcast on various news networks on 13 December 2001. Some have disputed this translation however. Arabist Dr. Abdel El M. Husseini stated: "This translation is very problematic. At the most important places where it is held to prove the guilt of bin Laden, it is not identical with the Arabic."<SUP class=reference id=cite_ref-61>[62]</SUP>
In the 2004 Osama bin Laden video, bin Laden abandoned his denials without retracting past statements. In it he stated he had personally directed the 19 hijackers.<SUP class=reference id=cite_ref-cbc-2004_6-1>[7]</SUP><SUP class=reference id=cite_ref-62>[63]</SUP> In the 18-minute tape, played on Al-Jazeera, four days before the American presidential election, bin Laden accused U.S. President George W. Bush of negligence on the hijacking of the planes on September 11.<SUP class=reference id=cite_ref-cbc-2004_6-2>[7]</SUP>
According to the tapes, bin Laden claimed he was inspired to destroy the World Trade Center after watching the destruction of towers in Lebanon by Israel during the 1982 Lebanon War.<SUP class=reference id=cite_ref-63>[64]</SUP>
In two other tapes aired by Al Jazeera in 2006, Osama bin Laden announces,
I am the one in charge of the 19 brothers … I was responsible for entrusting the 19 brothers … with the raids [5 minute audiotape broadcast May 23, 2006],<SUP class=reference id=cite_ref-64>[65]</SUP>
and is seen with Ramzi Binalshibh, as well as two of the 9/11 hijackers, Hamza al-Ghamdi and Wail al-Shehri, as they make preparations for the attacks (videotape broadcast September 7, 2006).<SUP class=reference id=cite_ref-65>[66]</SUP>
Despite this, bin Laden is reported to have complained as recently as November 2007 of the lack "of evidence admissible in court" tying him and his organization to the 9/11 attack.<SUP class=reference id=cite_ref-66>[67]</SUP>
Criminal charges and attempted extradition
<TABLE class=infobox style="FONT-SIZE: 95%; WIDTH: 23em"><CAPTION style="FONT-SIZE: larger">Osama bin Muhammad bin 'Awad bin Laden</CAPTION><TBODY><TR><TD style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-FAMILY: Georgia, serif; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #00c; TEXT-ALIGN: center" colSpan=2>FBI Ten Most Wanted Fugitives</TD></TR><TR><TD style="TEXT-ALIGN: center" colSpan=2>
Osama bin Muhammad bin 'Awad bin Laden</TD></TR><TR><TH style="TEXT-ALIGN: right">Born:</TH><TD>March 10, 1957 (1957-03-10) (age 51)
Riyadh, Saudi Arabia</TD></TR><TR><TH style="TEXT-ALIGN: right">Charged with:</TH><TD>Murder of U.S. nationals outside the United States
Conspiracy to murder U.S. nationals outside the United States
Attack on a federal facility resulting in death</TD></TR><TR><TH style="TEXT-ALIGN: right">Date Added:</TH><TD>June 7, 1999</TD></TR><TR><TH style="TEXT-ALIGN: right">Number on List:</TH><TD>#456</TD></TR><TR><TH style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 90%; COLOR: #fff; FONT-FAMILY: Georgia, serif; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #00c; TEXT-ALIGN: center" colSpan=2>Currently Top Ten Fugitive</TH></TR></TBODY></TABLE>
The 9/11 Commission Report concludes, "In February 1996, Sudanese officials began approaching officials from the United States and other governments, asking what actions of theirs might ease foreign pressure. In secret meetings with Saudi officials, Sudan offered to expel bin Ladin to Saudi Arabia and asked the Saudis to pardon him. US officials became aware of these secret discussions, certainly by March. Saudi officials apparently wanted bin Ladin expelled from Sudan. They had already revoked his citizenship, however, and would not tolerate his presence in their country. Also bin Ladin may have no longer felt safe in Sudan, where he had already escaped at least one assassination attempt that he believed to have been the work of the Egyptian or Saudi regimes, or both. On 19 May 1996, bin Ladin left Sudan—significantly weakened, despite his ambitions and organizational skills. He returned to Afghanistan."<SUP class=reference id=cite_ref-67>[68]</SUP> The 9/11 Commission Report further states "In late 1995, when Bin Ladin was still in Sudan, the State Department and the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) learned that Sudanese officials were discussing with the Saudi government the possibility of expelling Bin Ladin. US Ambassador Timothy Carney encouraged the Sudanese to pursue this course. The Saudis, however, did not want Bin Ladin, giving as their reason their revocation of his citizenship. Sudan’s minister of defense, Fatih Erwa, has claimed that Sudan offered to hand Bin Ladin over to the United States. The Commission has found no credible evidence that this was so. Ambassador Carney had instructions only to push the Sudanese to expel Bin Ladin. Ambassador Carney had no legal basis to ask for more from the Sudanese since, at the time, there was no indictment outstanding."<SUP class=reference id=cite_ref-68>[69]</SUP>
On 16 March 1998, Libya issued the first official international Interpol arrest warrant against Bin Laden and three other people for killing two German citizens in Libya on 10 March 1994, one of which is thought to have been a German counter-intelligence officer. Bin Laden is still wanted by the Libyan government. <SUP class=reference id=cite_ref-69>[70]</SUP><SUP class=reference id=cite_ref-70>[71]</SUP>
On 8 June 1998, a United States grand jury indicted Osama bin Laden on charges of killing five Americans and two Indians in the 13 November 1995, truck bombing of a US-operated Saudi National Guard training center in Riyadh.<SUP class=reference id=cite_ref-cron_71-0>[72]</SUP> Bin Laden was charged with "conspiracy to attack defense utilities of the United States" and prosecutors further charged that bin Laden is the head of the "terrorist" organization called al Qaeda, and that he was a major financial backer of Islamic fighters worldwide.<SUP class=reference id=cite_ref-cron_71-1>[72]</SUP> Bin Laden denied involvement but praised the attack.
On 4 November 1998, Osama bin Laden was indicted by a Federal Grand Jury in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York, on charges of Murder of US Nationals Outside the United States, Conspiracy to Murder US Nationals Outside the United States, and Attacks on a Federal Facility Resulting in Death<SUP class=reference id=cite_ref-72>[73]</SUP> for his alleged role in the 1998 United States embassy bombings in Kenya and Tanzania.
The evidence against bin Laden included courtroom testimony by former Al Qaeda members and satellite phone records.<SUP class=reference id=cite_ref-73>[74]</SUP><SUP class=reference id=cite_ref-74>[75]</SUP>
On 7 June 1999, bin Laden became the 456th person listed on the US Federal Bureau of Investigation's Ten Most Wanted Fugitives list, following his indictment along with others for capital crimes in the 1998 embassy attacks.
Attempts at assassination and requests for the extradition of bin Laden from the Taliban of Afghanistan were met with failure prior to the bombing of Afghanistan in October 2001.<SUP class=reference id=cite_ref-75>[76]</SUP> In 1999, US President Bill Clinton convinced the United Nations to impose sanctions against Afghanistan in an attempt to force the Taliban to extradite him.
Years later, on 10 October 2001, bin Laden appeared as well on the initial list of the FBI's top 22 Most Wanted Terrorists, which was released to the public by the President of the United States George W. Bush, in direct response to the attacks of 9/11, but which was again based on the indictment for the 1998 embassy attack. Bin Laden was among a group of thirteen fugitive terrorists wanted on that latter list for questioning about the 1998 embassy bombings. Bin Laden remains the only fugitive ever to be listed on both FBI fugitive lists.
After the bombing of Afghanistan began in October 2001, the Taliban did offer to turn over Osama bin Laden to a third party country in return for the US ending the bombing along with evidence that Osama bin Laden was involved in the 9/11 attacks. This offer was rejected by George W Bush stating that this was no longer negotiable with Bush responding that "There's no need to discuss innocence or guilt. We know he's guilty."<SUP class=reference id=cite_ref-76>[77]</SUP>
