# Is the evidence linking Bin Laden to 9/11 weak?

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**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [March 20, 2014, 10:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-the-evidence-linking-bin-laden-to-9-11-weak/684146 "2014-03-20T10:10:37Z")\
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**Author:** ![protoboard](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/fbc32d/32.png) [@protoboard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/protoboard)\
**Post date:** [March 20, 2014, 10:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-the-evidence-linking-bin-laden-to-9-11-weak/684146/1 "2014-03-20T10:10:37Z")

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It seems like there’s a lot of evidence Khalid Mohammed is responsible but little direct evidence Bin Laden had anything to do with it. I also know that technically he was wanted for the Embassy bombings and not 9/11.

Do you think he had relatively little to do with the attacks aside from maybe moral support or is the evidence he was directly involved in the plotting pretty strong?

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**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\
**Post date:** [March 20, 2014, 12:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-the-evidence-linking-bin-laden-to-9-11-weak/684146/2 "2014-03-20T12:56:36Z")

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There was a video recording of him watching news coverage of the attacks and talking about his expectations for how much damage the planes would cause. Let’s call that moderately strong evidence.

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**Author:** ![Valgard](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/7feea3/32.png) [@Valgard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Valgard)\
**Post date:** [March 20, 2014, 5:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-the-evidence-linking-bin-laden-to-9-11-weak/684146/3 "2014-03-20T17:46:34Z")

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> **[Osama bin Laden](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osama_bin_Laden#September_11_attacks)**
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> Osama bin Mohammed bin Awad bin Laden (Arabic: أسا‌مة بن محمد بن عو‌ض بن لا‌د‌ن, romanized: Usāmah ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿAwaḍ ibn Lādin; 10 March 1957 – 2 May 2011) was a Saudi Arabian-born militant and founder of the pan-Islamic militant organization Al-Qaeda. The group is designated as a terrorist group by the United Nations Security Council, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), the European Union, and various other countries. Under bin Laden, Al-Qaeda was responsible for the As a mem...

Pretty strong.