January 7, 2002 Posted: 1:07 PM EST (1807 GMT)
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TAMPA, Florida (CNN) -- A note written by the 15-year-old boy who crashed a Cessna into a Tampa office building indicated he supported Osama bin Laden and that the act was deliberate, authorities say.
Charles J. Bishop, who took the plane on an unauthorized flight across Tampa Bay, died at the scene of Saturday's crash into the 42-story Bank of America Plaza building. He apparently made no attempt to avoid the structure, witnesses said.
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Source: Tampa Police Department
This is the text of a note left by 15-year-old Charles Bishop, who crashed a Cessna 172R into the 28th floor of the 42-story Bank of America Plaza on Jan. 5. Tampa police released the note on Wednesday and ruled Bishop's death a suicide. Police said there was no evidence to support Bishop's claims in his two-page handwritten note or that the crash was an act of terrorism.
In the first paragraph Bishop wrote and scratched through the word 'terrorist' before the word 'acts.' In the fourth paragraph, he underlined the word 'will' in the phrase 'I will make you pay!'
I have prepared this statement in regards to the acts I am about to commit.
First of all, Osama bin Laden is absolutely justified in the terror he has caused on 9-11. He has brought a mighty nation to its knees! God blesses him and the others who helped make September 11th happen.
The U.S. will have to face the consequences for its horrific actions against the Palestinian people and Iraqis by its allegiance with the monstrous Israelis - who want nothing short of world domination!
You will pay - God help you - and I will make you pay!
There will be more coming!
Al Qaeda (cq) and other organizations have met with me several times to discuss the option of me joining, I didn't.
This is an operation done by me only. I had no other help, although I am acting on their behalf.
Osama bin Laden is planning on blowing up the Super Bowl with an antiquated nuclear bomb left over from the 1967 Israeli-Syrian war.