Meeting Osama bin Laden

Witness History - En podkast av BBC World Service

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

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