Osama Bin Laden called on the Europeans to stop helping the United States in the war in Afghanistan, in excerpts of a new audiotape aired Thursday on Al-Jazeera.

Bin Laden said he was the “only one responsible” for the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks on New York and Washington, arguing that it was unjust for the Americans to have invaded Afghanistan.

“The events of Manhattan were retaliation against the American-Israeli alliance’s aggression against our people in Palestine and Lebanon, and I am the only one responsible for it. The Afghan people and government knew nothing about it. America knows that,” he said.

“Europe went along with it (the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan) because they had no other alternative, only to be a follower,” he said.

(Fox News /Associated Press)