Bin Laden 'wanted 9/11 follow-up'

A British man who trained to be a shoe bomber said Osama bin Laden told him shortly after the September 11 2001 attacks that he believed a follow-up terrorist attack could doom the American economy.

A British man who trained to be a shoe bomber said Osama bin Laden told him shortly after the September 11 2001 attacks that he believed a follow-up terrorist attack could doom the American economy.

Saajid Badat recounted his meeting with the al-Qaida founder in videotaped testimony that was played yesterday for a federal jury in Brooklyn, New York City.

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