Zabihullah Mujahid said the Taliban 'have given promises that Afghan soil won't be used against anyone.'
"The Taliban's chief, Mullah Omar, opposed attacking the United States. Although facing opposition from many of his senior lieutenants, Bin Ladin effectively overruled their objections, and the attacks went forward," the report said."God knows itbut after the situation became unbearable and we witnessed the injustice and tyranny of the American-Israeli alliance against our people in Palestine and Lebanon, I thought about it," bin Laden said.
Referencing the 1982 Lebanon War, bin Laden went on to say:"As I watched the destroyed towers in Lebanon, it occurred to me punish the unjust the same way [and] to destroy towers in America so it could taste some of what we are tasting and to stop killing our children and women." The Taliban was sheltering bin Laden while the group was in power in Afghanistan in 2001 and the U.S. invasion was carried out in order to catch the Al-Qaeda leader and prevent the country from being used as a base to attack the U.S.
Taliban spokesperson Zabihullah Mujahid gestures as he speaks during a press conference in Kabul on August 24, 2021 after the Taliban stunning takeover of Afghanistan. Mujahid claimed on Wednesday that there was no evidence Osama bin Laden was responsible for the 9/11 attacks.
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