A letter from Osama Bin Laden claiming responsibility for 9/11 goes viral on the TikTok application

In the midst of the Hamas-Israel war, a letter attributed to Osama Bin Laden, who claimed responsibility for the September 11, 2001 attacks, where he denounced American support for Israel and called for revenge on the Palestinian people, is today widely used on social networks and taken out of context. The British newspaper The Guardian has decided to remove a link to this letter. The document, dated 2002, “has been removed” Wednesday November 15, now specifies the website of the Guardian in place of the text.

“This transcript posted on our website was widely shared on social media without the full context. So we have decided to remove it and instead redirect our readers to the article that originally contextualized it”specifies the newspaper.

A video posted Tuesday on TikTok

In this “Letter to America”, Osama Bin Laden, killed in 2011 by an elite American unit in northern Pakistan, justified the September 11 attacks in the United States and threatened to attack Western interests again. This letter, which also calls for revenge on the Palestinian people, resurfaced in particular on TikTok, in the context of the conflict that broke out on October 7. The origin of the resurgence of the letter was associated by several media with a video posted Tuesday on TikTok by an influencer.

The White House strongly criticized the phenomenon and TikTok assured that it was taking measures to delete the publications concerned. In a statement on “No one should ever insult the 2,977 American families who are still mourning their loved ones by associating themselves with the vile words of Osama bin Laden.”

TikTok assured on “proactively removed this content” And ““This is not unique to TikTok and has appeared on multiple platforms and media outlets”added the Chinese application.