Steelers' Football Player, From Niles West, Tweets Pro Osama

Former Niles West High School football player Rashard Mendenhall, now a Pittsburgh Steeler, has created controversy by tweeting comments that appear to support Osama Bin Laden, according to news reports. 

In another tweet, he appeared to doubt whether the World Trade Center towers actually fell during the 9/11 attacks. 

“We’ll never know what really happened. I just have a hard time believing a plane could take a skyscraper down demolition style,” the tweet read.

Steelers president Art Rooney II responded by saying it was hard to explain or understand what Mendenhall meant, and emphasized that the Steelers are very proud of U.S. military personnel and their actions. 

Mendenhall has 13,631 Twitter followers.