No, I remember a widely-broadcast video of Osama himself claiming credit for 9-11. It was delivered by Al-Queda to Al-Jazeera, who then passed it on to real news outlets.
Uh, no. That was a home videotape discovered by U.S. Troops in a safehouse in Afghanistan. It was not a tape made by Osama for broadcast as a claim of responsibiliy.
Osama said something like, "well that was a lot more spectacular than we expected, Allah be praised," so there are people who will argue that he never actually said Al Qaeda was involved.
To me, high fives, jubilation, congratulations, and saying "it went off better than we planned" is essentially the same as an admission.
Well, I could be wrong, but it seems to me that if he did claim credit for it, it wasn't for quite a few months, and then not directly.
I believe that was long after the war in Afghanstan.. actually I believe it was in one of the video's after Tora Bora.. one they used to claim Osama was still alive.
"No, I remember a widely-broadcast video of Osama himself claiming credit for 9-11. It was delivered by Al-Queda to Al-Jazeera, who then passed it on to real news outlets."
This was weeks later after the US had made up it's mind to go after them and publicly stated the fact.