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SANTA BARBARA, Calif., May 6, 2011 /PRNewswire/ — Nobel Peace Prize nominee Dr. David Ray Griffin’s 2009 book, “Osama bin Laden: Dead or Alive?” presented compelling evidence that bin Laden died in December 2001 — prompting a BBC documentary of the same name.

Griffin, founder of the soon to be announced 9/11 Consensus Panel, and named among the New Statesman’s “50 People Who Matter Today,” today released the following statement:

President Obama, speaking of the operation to kill Osama bin Laden, said: “Justice has been done.”

It has been widely assumed that, if bin Laden is now dead, the person most responsible for the 9/11 attacks has been brought to justice. But the US government has never provided evidence that the attacks were carried out by bin Laden and his al-Qaeda organization.

In September 2001, Secretary of State Colin Powell promised to provide this evidence, but the next day recanted, saying “most of [the evidence] is classified.”

In October, Prime Minister Tony Blair provided evidence that bin Laden and al-Qaeda planned and executed the 9/11 attacks. But he added:

“This document does not purport to provide a prosecutable case against Osama Bin Laden in a court of law.”

The FBI’s acts that made bin Laden a “Most Wanted Terrorist” does not include the 9/11 attacks. The FBI’s chief of investigative publicity explained: “The FBI has been no hard evidence connecting Bin Laden to 9/11.”