Bin Laden made his first admission of responsibility for the 9/11 attacks in a tape released to Al Jazeera on October 29, 2004. ” ‘We decided to destroy towers in America so they may taste what we have tasted,’ he says, clearly referring to the World Trade Center.”
– Alex Johnson, Pete Williams, Tamara Kupperman, Richard Engel, Robert Windrem, and The Associated Press, “Al-Jazeera: Bin Laden Tape Obtained in Pakistan,” MSNBC, Oct. 30, 2004