Bin Laden Admits Launching Terror Attacks on September 11:Newspaper

Osama Bin Laden has for the first time admitted that his al-Qaeda group launched the attacks on the World Trade Center in New York and the Pentagon, the SundayTelegraph reported on Sunday.

In a previously undisclosed video which has been circulated for14 days among his supporters, the paper said, Osama bin Laden confessed that "history should be a witness that we are terrorists.Yes, we kill their innocents."

In the footage, shot in the Afghan mountains at the end of October, a smiling bin Laden says that the World Trade Center's twin towers were a "legitimate target".

The paper said that the footage, to which it obtained access inthe Middle East Saturday, was not made for public release via the al-Jazeera television network used by bin Laden for propaganda purposes in the past. It is believed to be intended as a rallying call to al-Qaeda members, the paper said.

Bin Laden has publicly issued four previous videos since September 11, always denying carrying out the atrocities.

( Xinhua News Agency 11/11/2001)