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Know Hamid Mir, the first ever reporter to interview Osama bin Laden

India TV News Desk [Published on:20 Apr 2014, 1:52 PM]
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New Delhi: Hamid Mir was the first journalist who was allowed to interview the world's most dangerous terrorist Osama bin Laden.

 
Hamid Mir faced many twists and turns befote reaching Osama.

He got this rare opportunity which many reporters awaited for years. He interviewed Osama not only once but thrice in a row.
 
Apart from interviewing the leading terrorist, he is also known as the face of Geo TV in Pakistan as he hosts their political show ‘Capital Talk' there.
 
Know what he asked Osama in his exclusive interview to him:



In his very first interview in 1997 which was organized with much difficulty Mir had asked Bin Laden why Al Qaida had killed 20 Pakistani soldiers in Somalia in 1993.
 
Back then, media organizations were not interested in a relatively unknown Bin Laden, and Mir said "the interview was a flop" in terms of being picked up internationally.
 

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