July 30, 2008

Washington Post
John Miller was told that Osama bin Laden would speak, but his answers wouldn’t be translated into English. “That’s going to be a problem — how will I ask a follow-up question?’ ” Miller asked bin Laden’s s aide, Ayman al-Zawahiri. “He said it won’t be a problem. There will be no follow-up questions.” Miller adds: “Dr. Zawahiri explained that ‘this is not like your Sam Donaldson walking through the Rose Garden of the White House with the president. Mr. bin Laden was a very important man.”

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