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. I first got to know Arnett, who died on Wednesday, in 1993. He was then one ...

(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 ...

(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. Peter Arnett asked their leader a ...

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 ...