Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. From left: Peter Arnett, Osama bin Laden, Peter Bergen and cameraman Peter Jouvenal pose for a photo in 1997. - Courtesy Peter ...

Prince Turki al Faisal is the current Saudi ambassador to the United States. In the mid-1980s, he was responsible for funneling Saudi funds to the mujahideen in Afghanistan and met Osama bin Laden in ...

GUANTANAMO BAY U.S. NAVAL BASE, Cuba (Reuters) - Osama bin Laden wanted to introduce himself to America with an ABC television interview months before al Qaeda bombed two U.S. embassies in Africa, the ...

(CNN) — It was a bitterly cold night in March 1997 in a mud hut high in the mountains of eastern Afghanistan and we were surrounded by well-armed al-Qaeda fighters. It was bin Laden’s first TV ...

It was a bitterly cold night in March 1997 in a mud hut high in the mountains of eastern Afghanistan and we were surrounded by well-armed al-Qaeda fighters. Peter Arnett asked their leader a simple ...

It was bin Laden’s first TV interview, and he and his team had chosen Arnett and CNN to conduct it, an interview I produced. In the following year, bin Laden made good on his chilling threat with ...