- "I don't believe bin Laden was behind September
11..." -- Former Afghan President Rabbani to Ivestiz
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- In a rare interview granted to the Russian daily Izvestia
on April 14 and published today, the leader of the anti-Taliban Northern
Alliance, Burhanuddin Rabbani, dismissed Osama bin Laden as a "small
fish," who could not possibly have organized the attack, and called
for a major investigation of the events of Sept. 11.
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- Rabbani's statement is notable against the background
of the latest media hype around bin Laden, that began today, with the convenient
surfacing of a new video allegedly confirming bin Laden's authorship of
the attack.
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- Here are relevant excerpts from the Rabbani interview:
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- Q: Are Osama bin Laden and Mullah Omar still alive? If
so, where are they now?
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- RABBANI: Their fate doesn't interest me. They are very
small fish.
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- Q: But they destroyed the peace of the whole world.
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- RABBANI: It interests me very much, to know, how such
a complex, multilayered, painstakingly planned and technically masterfully
organized terrorist operation, as the attack on the U.S.A. on Sept. 11,
could have been organized and carried out by a small group of bandits,
sitting in uninhabited Afghan mountains. Personally this is incomprehensible
to me.
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- Q: You mean, you doubt, that the guilty party in the
American tragedy of the 21st Century was bin Laden?
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- RABBANI: And don't you doubt it, too? A big investigation
is absolutely necessary. Of course, anything is possible. I never met bin
Laden, but people have come to me, who sat at the same table with him,
and observed him in various situations. Not a single one of these told
me that bin Laden is a great personality. On the contrary, all who knew
him spoke of him as a simple field commander. Bin Laden sat for a long
time in the caves. One does not control the world from such a place.
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- Q: Is it possible, that other people were behind bin
Laden? And are behind him now?
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- RABBANI: Without a doubt. And I would like to know who
exactly.
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- Izvestia, April 15, 2002
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