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Meeting Osama bin Laden
When the Palestinian journalist Abdel Bari Atwan agreed to go and interview Osama bin Laden, he was apprehensive. By the time he reached his mountain hideout he was scared.
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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