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 ...

(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 ...

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 ...