Interviews of Osama bin Laden

Chadored children danced in front of him, preachers acknowledged his wisdom" while noting that he was accused of "training for further jihad wars".

[5] When asked about United States support for the Arab mujahideen during the Soviet-Afghan war, bin Laden responded "Personally neither I nor my brothers saw evidence of American help.

bin Laden said; "Mr Robert, one of our brothers had a dream...that you were a spiritual person ... this means you are a true Muslim".

[11] In 1996, Scott MacLeod of Time interviewed bin Laden in Khartoum, Sudan at a building on the outskirts of the city.

He first interviewed bin Laden for the Daily Pakistan in March 1997, in a cave of Tora Bora mountains in eastern Afghanistan.

In the interview bin Laden spoke out against U.S. troops being stationed in Saudi Arabia and denounced Saddam Hussein, calling him a "socialist motherfucker.

[21][22][23][24] A recorded interview in May 1998, a little over two months before the U.S. embassy bombings in Kenya and Tanzania, shows bin Laden answering questions posed by some of his followers at a mountaintop camp in southern Afghanistan.

During Yusufzai's late-night conversation, bin Laden appeared to be in good health, though he admitted to a sore throat and a bad back.

Bakr Atyani, a correspondent for MBC, met with bin Laden in Kandahar in June 2001. bin Laden had refused to speak on camera because he had promised the Taliban that he would not give any media statements, but Atyani spoke with al-Qaeda military chief Abu Hafs off camera.

Hafs had told Atyani that "In the next few weeks we will carry out a big surprise and we will strike American and Israeli interest" and that "the coffin business will increase in the United States."

During the interview, Allouni had asked bin Laden for his response to the claim that he was behind the attacks on September 11. bin Laden described the hijackers as "brave guys who took the battle to the heart of America" and said that "[t]hey did this, as we understand it, and this is something we have agitated for before, as a matter of self-defense...If inciting people to do that is terrorism, and if killing those who kill our sons is terrorism, then let history be witness that we are terrorists."