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Osama Bin Laden: Middle East
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Middle East sources have told the Associated Press Abu Zubaydah developed a unique talent in mortars and other heavy weaponry that attracted the attention of bin Laden. He was apparently named bin Laden's second deputy in 1995, responsible for screening recruits and devising terrorist plans. Where bin Laden and deputy Ayman al-Zawahri would set policy, Abu Zubaydah would implement it. U.S. officials said when the inner circle would order the bombing of an embassy, Abu Zubaydah would select the embassy, cell and method of attack. Ahmed Ressam, convicted April 2001 of smuggling, terrorist conspiracy and other charges in the Los Angeles millennium plot, described Abu Zubaydah's role as a recruiter during court testimony. "He is the person in charge of the camps. He receives young men from all countries.
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ABC reporter John Miller recounts his hour-long interview with Osama bin Laden at his camp on a mountaintop in southern Afghanistan in May of 1998. It took place a little more than two months before the truckbombings of the two U.S. embassies in East Africa.
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When Taliban captured Kabul, mutual benefits and Taliban's puritanical views brought bin Laden close to the Afghan militia. He shifted from his hideout near the eastern city of Jalalabad to the Taliban stronghold of Kandahar in early 1997.
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