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World Service,28 Jan 2010,10 mins

Meeting Osama

Witness History

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When the Palestinian journalist Abdel Bari Atwan agreed to go and interview Osama bin Laden fourteen years ago, he was apprehensive. By the time he reached his mountain hideout - he was shaken and scared -but what was the man himself really like?

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