Al-Qaida ‘spokesman’ tells of meeting with bin Laden

NEW YORK — Alleged al-Qaida spokesman Sulaiman abu Ghaith testified at his federal terrorism trial Wednesday that Osama bin Laden chided him for being too fearful of U.S. retaliation during a meeting in a cave on the night of the Sept. 11 attacks.

“We are the ones who did it!” bin Laden told Abu Ghaith, a Kuwaiti imam the al-Qaida leader had summoned to his mountainous Afghanistan hideaway, a two- to three-hour drive from Kabul. But then a “worried” bin Laden asked abu Ghaith what he thought would happen.