A top Taliban spokesman said in an interview with NBC News that there is “no proof” that Osama bin Laden was responsible for the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks on the United States that killed nearly 3,000 people, the Washington Post reports.
“When Osama bin Laden became an issue for the Americans, he was in Afghanistan. Although there was no proof he was involved” in 9/11, Mujahid told NBC News in an interview broadcast Wednesday. “Now, we have given promises that Afghan soil won’t be used against anyone.”
Bin Laden repeatedly claimed responsibility in various videos and audio recordings released after the attacks. The terrorists who conducted the attack were trained at al Qaeda training sites in Afghanistan, and the funding for the operation has been traced to bin Laden and al Qaeda.