Interviews of Osama bin Laden

Hamid Mir interviewing al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden in 1997.

Since the early 1990s, several interviews of Osama bin Laden have appeared in the global media. Among these was an interview by Middle East specialist Robert Fisk.[1] In the interviews, Bin Laden acknowledges having instigated bombings in Khobar, Saudi Arabia in 1996 and Riyadh, Saudi Arabia in 2003, but denies involvement with both the 1993 and 2001 attacks on the WTC towers in New York City.

Bin Laden himself mentioned some of the interviews directly in a 2004 video, saying "you can read this, if you wish, in my interview with Scott [Macleod] in Time Magazine in 1996, or with Peter Arnett on CNN in 1997, or my meeting with John Miller in 1998."[2]

  1. ^ Berube, Michael (2009). The Left at War. NYU Press. pp. 62. ISBN 978-0-8147-9984-0. Quoted during interview by Radio B92
  2. ^ "Full transcript of bin Ladin's speech". aljazeera. Retrieved 29 November 2009.