Rabbani,Burhanuddin

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In a rare interview granted to the Russian daily Izvestia on April 14, 2002 and published in May 2002 in english language, the leader of the anti-Taliban Northern Alliance, Burhanuddin Rabbani, dismissed Osama bin Laden as a "small fish," who could not possibly have organized the attack, and called for a major investigation of the events of Sept. 11. "All who knew him spoke of him as a simple field commander" Source: Source

: Russian Daily Izvestia, reposted at http://www.davidicke.net/newsroom/asia/afghanistan/050202a.html