Steve Coll

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259 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Sep 2026 last heard 2 Sep

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And what he knows is how the office works.

And he knows about the Egyptians who are there, and he knows about the payroll, and he knows about all of these networks in different regions.

And then there's a CIA station in Khartoum that has him on their radar as well.

They're following him around.

They're surveying him.

There's, you know, CIA officers dressing up with fake heads looking like Africans driving around in cars behind Osama's car.

I mean, it's some of its Keystone cops, but they're they have him under surveillance as well.

I was an international investigative reporter for the Washington Post in London when the first World Trade Center attack occurred.

My desk called me up and said, You're supposed to be our investigative reporter.

Who did this?

And I with a couple of other reporters, I spent nine months traveling around, mostly in the Middle East.

Sometimes in uh Bosnia where there was a a war going on.

And we encountered everywhere the name Osama bin Laden.

Um his network, his reputation among militants was quite high.

And and we went to Khartoum, knocked on his door, would you give us an interview?

No, not available.

But but his bodyguard was there.

But he was described at the time as primarily a source of finance.

Um, I think in fact he was more than that, but that was his reputation.

And uh so the Americans wanted him out of Sudan.

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