Osama Bin Laden: The Inside Story

Episode 1 starts by reviewing his childhood in Saudi Arabia. In 1980, after the invasion of Aghanistan he joins many other Arab men who want to free the country from the Soviets. Setting up the 'Service Bureau' in Peshawar, Pakistan, he uses his connections to become a major fundraiser in the war effort. Later, he enters the camp of a Mujahadeen commander. Initially he was a liability in the battl

Episode Two begins with Bin Laden returning home from Afghanistan, an acclaimed war hero after the withdrawal of the Soviet. However, eighteen months after he returns, Saddam Hussein invades Kuwait prompting the anxious Saudi authorities to seek protection from the US. Horrified by what he regards as an invasion of Muslim holy lands by the American army, Bin Laden turns publicly against the Saudi

In 1997, Bin Laden’s Al-Qaeda ramping up its operations in Afghanistan. He follows this, in 1998, with his infamous fatwa calling for ‘the murder of any American, anywhere on Earth’. Bomb attacks on two US embassies in Tanzania and Kenya take place only months later, prompting a missile attack on Bin Laden’s training camp. He’s placed on the FBI’s 10 Most Wanted. This fails to deter him: in 2000,