A Journalist Who Met Bin Laden

The Takeaway

Edward Girardet, journalist and author of Killing the Cranes: A Reporter’s Journey Through Three Decades of War in Afghanistan, is one of the few Western journalists to have met Osama Bin Laden in person. He speaks with us from the BBC’s studio in Delhi, India, about the news of Bin Laden’s death.

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