Meeting Osama bin Laden
One man's story of his journey to talk to the Al-Qaeda leader in 1996
Witness History · BBC World Service
April 27, 20219m 57s
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Show Notes
When the Palestinian journalist Abdel Bari Atwan agreed to go and interview Osama bin Laden in 1996 he was apprehensive. By the time he reached the Al-Qaeda leader's mountain hideout - he was shaken and scared - but what was the man himself really like? Claire Bowes reports.
This programme is a rebroadcast.
Photo: Osama bin Laden. Credit:AFP/Getty Images