(Xinhua) -- Osama bin Laden's former driver has heard the al-Qaida leader express satisfaction with the death toll of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks at the U.S. which was more than his expectation, according to a news report on Wednesday.
Citing a Federal Bureau of Investigation agent, the Washington Post report said that the arrested driver, Salim Ahmed Hamdan, told U.S. interrogators at the Guantanamo detention center bin Laden was "happy about the results" of the terrorist attacks that killed nearly 3,000, while his expectation on the death toll was "only" 1,000 to 1,500.
The agent, Ali Soufan, also told Hamdan's military trial that during an interrogation in 2002, the driver said he had directly witnessed a meeting on Sept. 11, 2001, in Kabul, Afghanistan, between bin Laden and Khalid Sheik Mohammed, self-claimed mastermind of the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, when the al-Qaida leader praised the 19 suicide hijackers-to-be for "their courage." |