Osama bin Laden's group may not have acted alone to carry out the terrorist strikes that leveled the twin World Trade Center towers and left a smoldering hole in the Pentagon, a top US official said Thursday.
US authorities sifting through a mountain of intelligence about Tuesday's attacks place the exiled Saudi dissident atop their suspect list, but are being cautious about retaliatory strikes until they know whether he had help, the official, who requested anonymity, said.
"We don't want to be premature in determining who might have done it because there might have been not just one but multiple organizations that were involved," the official said.
Terrorists hijacked four commercial jetliners on Tuesday and used them as guided missiles, two of them leveling New York's twin World Trade Center Towers and a third punching a hole in the Pentagon. A fourth crashed in Pennsylvania.
US Secretary of State Colin Powell Thursday became the first US official publicly to link exiled Saudi dissident Osama bin Laden as a main suspect in the attacks. Bin Laden resides in Afghanistan -- WASHINGTON (AFP)
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