Osama bin laden biography essay book

Four years before 9/11 and four years after the first bombing of the World Trade Center, you met Bin Laden in Afghanistan. What was that like?

It took a long time to find Bin Laden, even four years before the 9/11 attacks.

I spent many, many weeks of hanging out with people associated with Bin Laden in London and then travelling to Pakistan and into Taliban-controlled Afghanistan where he was then living. It was a very lengthy, cloak-and-dagger process, because Bin Laden didn’t wake up on September 12 2001 saying I suddenly need to careful – he had been quite careful for a long time.

Getting access to him was an adventure.

Osama bin laden biography essay book pdf

When we met with him, in 1997, we didn’t know very much about him. It was through our interview that he declared war on the United States for the first time to a Western audience. Unfortunately, the rest is history.

Is there anything that you could tell us about him by being in his presence that we couldn’t learn from the t