Following the September 11 attacks , Rauf conducted training and speeches for the F.B.I. and U.S. State Department . However , some U.S. politicians have voiced concerns about his views , referring to comments Rauf made when interviewed by Ed Bradley on CBS '' 60 Minutes '' on September 30 , 2001 . Rauf 's website says he was referring to the US CIA in the 1980s " financing Osama Bin Laden and strengthening the Taliban . " Columnist Jonathan Rauch wrote that Rauf gave a " mixed , muddled , muttered " message after 9/11 . Nineteen days after the attacks , he told CBS 's '' 60 Minutes '' that fanaticism and terrorism have no place in Islam . Rauch said that the message was mixed , however , because when then asked if the U.S. deserved the attacks , Rauf answered , " I would n't say that the United States deserved what happened . But the United States ' policies were an accessory to the crime that happened . " When the interviewer asked Rauf how he considered the U.S. to be an accessory , he replied , " because we have been accessory to a lot of innocent lives dying in the world . In fact , in the most direct sense , Osama bin Laden is made in the USA . " Although this CIA-Osama bin Laden controversy has been brought up by many others , Rudy Giuliani , Peter T. King , Rick Lazio , and Sarah Palin expressed concern about these remarks when discussing Rauf as the driving force behind the Park51 project
September 11 attacks
September 11 attacks
Feisal Abdul Rauf