Jazeera TV Claims It Has Confession on Sept Attacks.
September 05, 2002 05:15 PM ET
DUBAI (Reuters) - Arabic television station al-Jazeera said on Thursday it had confessions from two men it identified as members of Osama bin Laden's al Qaeda network claiming the group was responsible for the September 11 attacks.
A Jazeera official identified the two men as Ramzi bin al-Shaibah and Khaled al-Sheikh Mohammad, who the channel said were former room mates of Mohamed Atta, one of the 19 hijackers of aircraft which were flown into U.S. landmarks.
In the first part of a documentary aired on Thursday, the Qatar-based channel, noted for its footage of bin Laden, said the two men were interviewed in Karachi, Pakistan, but did not say when.
"In the second part of this documentary there will be the first direct confession as to how al Qaeda planned and executed the September 11 (attacks)," Yosri Fouda, the journalist who prepared the documentary said. The second part will be aired next Thursday.
The interviews were arranged by a liaison officer of al Qaeda the channel identified as Abu Bakr. It did not give further details about the interview but said the two men lived with Atta in Hamburg, Germany, until days before the attacks.
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