Bin Laden warned of thousands of deaths, court hears

Osama bin Laden told followers before the September 11 attacks that “we must strike at America” and there would be “thousands of dead,” a witness at the trial of an alleged plot member testified today.

Jordanian-born Shadi Abdellah, 25, told a Hamburg court he briefly served as bin Laden’s bodyguard while attending an al-Qaida training camp in Kandahar, Afghanistan, from early 2000 until May 2001.