Original sentence: According to the English translation distributed by the BBC and other media outlets, he tells viewers he personally directed the 19 hijackers, and gave what he claims was his motivation:.Bin Laden claimed he was inspired to destroy the World Trade Center after watching the destruction of towers in Lebanon by Israel during the 1982 Lebanon War.God knows that the plan of striking the towers had not occurred to us, but the idea came to me when things went just too far with the American-Israeli alliance's oppression and atrocities against our people in Palestine and Lebanon.I will explain to you the reasons behind these events, and I will tell you the truth about the moments when this decision was taken, so that you can reflect on it.Shortly before the U.presidential election on 29 October 2004, Arab television network Al Jazeera broadcast an 18 minutes video tape of Osama bin Laden, addressed to citizens of the United States
Edited sentence: According to the English translation distributed by the media, he seems to suggest that the September 11, 2001 attacks were his idea and that he agreed with Mohammed Atta on how to carry them out.He condemns the Bush government's response to the attacks, and presents the attacks as part of a campaign of revenge and deterrence begun after personally seeing the destruction of the Lebanese Civil War in 1982.On 29 October 2004, Arab television network Al Jazeera broadcast a video tape, 18 minutes in length, of what appears to be Osama bin Laden, addressing citizens of the United States.The release of the tape was reportedly timed to come just four days before the 2004 U.presidential election