Hamid Mir's Memoir of a Night in Kabul

Hamid Mir had met a Samar bin Laden twice before, although he'd been publicly critical of his methods. Bin Laden told him he'd won his trust by reporting his comments accurately to the wider world. But when he first met Bin Laden in 1997, he hadn't really known much about him. I reached to him through the then Taliban leader, Mullah Umar. And believe you me, at that time, I was not aware about Osama bin Laden. So he said, he's my guest here in Afghanistan. He said, I will fix your meeting with him. Then they took me to the Torabara mountain. And it was evening, I remember. They stopped us for