Osama bin Laden (file)	Zacarias Moussaoui (file)

    BEIJING, May 24 (Xinhuanet) -- In a new audiotape, a speaker believed to be Osama bin Laden said Zacarias Moussaoui, the only person convicted in a U.S. court for the Sept. 11 attacks, had nothing to do with the operations.

    He reasserted that he had personally plotted the Sept. 11 attacks on U.S. cities which killed about 3,000 people, according to a Washington Post report Tuesday.

    "The truth is that he has no connection whatsoever with the events of September 11. I am certain of what I say because I was responsible for entrusting the 19 brothers ... with the raids," said the speaker who appeared to be bin Laden in the four-and-a-half-minute tape posted on a Web site often used by Al Qaeda. The authenticity of the tape could not be verified.

    The speakers also listed others who he said had no role in the acctacks, including prisoners held by the United States in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and several individuals he described as working for relief agencies and the media.

    Moussaoui, 37, was sentenced on May 4 to life in prison with no chance of release. He pleaded guilty last year to conspiracy in connection with the attacks, in which hijacked airliners were flown into buildings in New York City and Washington D.C.. Enditem

    (Agencies)