The Bin Laden Files, Part 3/3: A Lion In Winter

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🗓️ 21 November 2022

⏱️ 46 minutes

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As a new era of True Spies begins, Sophia di Martino joins the experts to reveal Osama bin Laden’s origins, methods and motivation. CIA operatives Gina Bennett and Tracy Walder join CNN’s Peter Bergen, the man who first interviewed Osama, to share the unvarnished truth about Bin Laden’s rise to power. In Part 3, the hunt begins for the world's most infamous terrorist begins in earnest - and a humble courier has an important part to play. From SPYSCAPE, the home of secrets. A Cup And Nuzzle production. Series producers: Gemma Newby, Joe Foley. Produced by Max Bower. Music by Nick Ryan.

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0:00.0	Incoming transmission.
0:02.0	Welcome. Welcome. Welcome. Welcome. Welcome.
0:06.0	This is True Spies.
0:09.0	The podcast that takes you deep inside the greatest secret missions of all time.
0:15.0	Week by week you'll hear the true stories behind the operations that have shaped the world we live in.
0:22.0	True Spies.
0:23.0	You'll meet the people who live life undercover.
0:27.0	What do they know? What are their skills? And what would you do in their position?
0:35.0	This is True Spies.
0:38.0	There were plenty of people in the Taliban who had a very dim view of Bin Laden.
0:42.0	But there was a moment where the CIA felt like there was a road to getting Bin Laden
0:47.0	where he would just be handed over by leaders of the Taliban to the United States.
0:52.0	I'm Sophia DiMartino and this is True Spies from Spicecape Studios.
0:59.0	The Bin Laden files part three, a lion in winter.
1:09.0	September 15th, 2001.
1:12.0	As the rubble at ground zero still smolders.
1:16.0	6,000 miles away the Taliban are deciding what to do with their guest, Asama Bin Laden.
1:23.0	Now the most wanted man on earth.
1:26.0	An American by the name of Robert Grenier is pitching them a simple solution. Hand him over.
1:34.0	The CIA station chief in neighboring Pakistan, Grenier arranges a meeting with the Taliban's number two.
1:41.0	A man called Mullah Osmani.
1:45.0	At a quiet hotel in Keter, a Pakistani city near the Afghan border, Grenier and Osmani meet.
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