Choosing what to watch night after night the flicking through the endless

searching is a nightmare we want to help you on our brand new podcast off the

telly we share what we've been watching

Cladie Aide.

Load to games, loads of fun, loads of screaming.

Lovely. Off the telly with me Joanna Paige.

And me, Natalie Cassidy, so your evenings can be a little less

searching and a lot more auction listen on BBC sounds. This is the Witness History Podcast from the BBC World Service. I'm Claire Bose.

Today I'm bringing you a program from our archives. It's a story about Osama bin Laden,

the Saudi-born leader of Al-Qaeda and the man behind the 9-11 attacks against the USA who was eventually killed by US forces in May 2011.

Before he became well known around the world for carrying out deadly terror attacks, he spent years living in Afghanistan,

and that's where one journalist went to meet him after receiving a personal invitation in his

London office.

A bulky man with a Saudi dress, headgear and a huge beard, very fat, burst into my office here and he said to me,

do you want to meet Sheikh Osama bin Laden?

Abdul Barry Atwan, editor-in-chief of the British-based Pan-Arab Daily,

Al-Quds-Al-Alabi, had an important decision to make.

bin Laden had been accused by the US of financing terrorism that

summer but back then most people knew very little about him. I was shocked. Shall I

go it is very dangerous.

It could actually affect my life.

I was, you know, in my 40s.

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