Saajid Badat was jailed in 2005 for planning an attack on a flight from Amsterdam to America. Photo: ITV West
Osama Bin Laden Wanted 9/11 Follow-Up to Doom Economy, Terrorist Says - -ABC News
A convicted terrorist said that shortly after the Sept. 11, 2001 terror attacks, Osama bin Laden told him that the next attack would strike a fatal blow to the American economy.
In a video testimony played in a New York court Monday, Saajid Badat, who was convicted in London of a December 2001 plot to blow up a U.S.-bound flight with a bomb in his shoes, recounted his meeting with the al Qaeda leader just after the 9/11 attacks.
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