How a Meeting with Benazir Bhutto Led Hamid Mir to Osama bin Laden

“When I first interviewed Osama bin Laden in 1997, it was a flop.” Thirteen years have passed since U.S. forces tracked down Osama bin Laden in Pakistan in an operation that remains clouded in mystery to this day. In an exclusive 2020 interview with TCM, Hamid Mir recounted how he accidentally landed an interview with the infamous Emir of al-Qaeda through a meeting with Mullah Umar.