World News Tonight (ABC) - 2002-01-06

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[0:00] K2's microcast exclusively at katu.com

[0:08] >> on World News Tonight this Sunday.

[0:11] Investigators say the [music] student

[0:13] pilot who crashed into a Tampa highrise

[0:17] left a note expressing sympathy for

[0:20] Osama bin Laden. American troops head to

[0:23] Cuba to build a prison for al-Qaeda and

[0:26] Taliban prisoners.

[0:29] FBI informants implicated in murder

[0:31] cases. Why the White House is blocking a

[0:34] congressional probe.

[0:37] Australia's koalas in a battle for their

[0:39] lives.

[0:41] And risking beatings, jails, deaths, all

[0:45] for art.

[0:48] >> From [music]

[0:49] ABC News World Headquarters in New York,

[0:52] this is World News Tonight, Sunday.

[0:56] >> Good evening everyone. I'm Carol

[0:57] Simpson. Investigators in Florida say

[1:00] they do not believe the teenager who

[1:03] flew a small plane into a Tampa highrise

[1:06] yesterday had any ties to terrorists.

[1:09] But a note he left behind expresses

[1:11] sympathy for Osama bin Laden. ABC's Ned

[1:15] Potter has this report.

[1:17] Authorities in Tampa cleaning up the

[1:19] last of the wreckage said Charles Bishop

[1:22] had written a four paragraph note

[1:24] expressing support for the attack on

[1:26] September 11th. Bishop clearly stated

[1:29] that he has acted alone

[1:34] without any help from anyone else. He

[1:37] did however make statement expressing

[1:39] his sympathy towards us bin Laden.

[1:42] >> Bishop was 15 years old. Police said he

[1:45] appeared to be a troubled young man who

[1:47] flew deliberately into the 28th floor of

[1:49] the building. He had taken off from this

[1:51] Florida flight school without

[1:53] permission. He had been taking lessons

[1:55] there for nearly a year. This individual

[1:57] was very savvy evidently at fligh

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