"I would like to assure the world that I did not plan the recent attacks, which seems to have been planned by people for personal reasons. 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. Neither had I any knowledge of these attacks, nor do I consider the killing of innocent women, children, and other humans as an acceptable act. Islam strictly forbids causing harm to innocent women, children, [or] other people.

"I have already said that we are against the American system, not against its people; whereas, in these attacks, the common American people have been killed. The United States should try to trace the perpetrators of these attacks within itself; the people who are a part of the US system. There are intelligence agencies in the US which require billions of dollars worth of funds from the Congress and the government, every year ― they need an enemy."

~ Osama bin Laden ― taken from the Pakistani newspaper, Karachi Ummat (Sept. 28, 2001)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QcxtVZwXx0E