Meeting Osama bin Laden

Published: April 27, 2021, 8:30 a.m.

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.

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Photo: Osama bin Laden. Credit:AFP/Getty Images