Atwan

"We've made our decision and we'll accept the results of it," declared an activist in Deir al-Zour, who gave his name as Atwan.

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Abdel Bari Atwan, the editor of the London-based Arabic language newspaper al-Quds al-Arabi, travelled to eastern Afghanistan to interview bin Laden that year.

Ayman al-Zawahiri: Al-Qaida's arrogant doctor of death | The Observer profile 2011

The al-Qaeda leader told Atwan, I really feel secure in the mountains.

The Longest War Peter L. Bergen 2011

In the winter of 1996 bin Laden took Abdel Bari Atwan, a Palestinian journalist based in London, on a walking tour of frigid Tora Bora.

The Longest War Peter L. Bergen 2011

Bin Laden also well understood how the Tora Bora caves where he sat down with Atwan for an interview and a photographic session would have a certain resonance in the Muslim world, as it was in a cave in the mountains that the Prophet Mohammed had first received the revelations of the Koran.

The Longest War Peter L. Bergen 2011

"He was cold, arrogant, kept himself apart," Atwan remembered last week.

Ayman al-Zawahiri: Al-Qaida's arrogant doctor of death | The Observer profile 2011

It is not sufficient for leaders of Arab opinion such as Ahmet Davutoglu (Comment, 16 March) or Abdel al-Bari Atwan (Relief will fade as we see the real impact of intervention, 19 March) to attack western "interference" and invoke fine sentiments such as "Arabs can take control of their future" without coming up with some realistic plan of action for what has been happening in Libya.

Letters: Libya's neighbours and lines in the sand 2011

Atwan, the editor, argues that if anyone is up to the job of restoring its fortunes, he is.

Ayman al-Zawahiri: Al-Qaida's arrogant doctor of death | The Observer profile 2011

Zawahiri was with the al-Qaida leader, but kept his distance both from Atwan and from bin Laden's entourage.

Ayman al-Zawahiri: Al-Qaida's arrogant doctor of death | The Observer profile 2011

Abdel Bari Atwan, who had spent two days interviewing bin Laden in Tora Bora in 1996, says that in late December 2001, “I was in the Gulf region and I met somebody from al-Qaeda and he told me that Osama bin Laden was injured during the Tora Bora bombing, and he was operated on his left shoulder.”

The Longest War Peter L. Bergen 2011