A New Bin Laden Tape Addresses Moussaoui

An audiotape allegedly made by Osama bin Laden surfaced May 23 in which the al Qaeda leader says Zacarias Moussaoui, the alleged 20th hijacker on Sept. 11, was not involved in that plot and that bin Laden himself personally assigned the roles for each of the 19 "brothers" involved. The new audiotape serves to remind the Muslim masses that the United States has failed to capture the alive-and-well bin Laden, and underscores the notion that it has instead convicted an innocent man.