on the battlefield in jalalabad bin laden was a dismal failure. >> we lost more than 45 kilometers because of his mistake. >> reporter: and he lost many soldiers. among those in the militant community like egyptian osama rushdie bin laden's reputation took a hit. >> translator: lots of people criticized osama bin laden because he led the arab fighters into the battle for jalalabad in a very disorganized way. more than 300 of them were killed. >> reporter: shortly after the battle bin laden returned home to saudi arabia. >> my name is turk al faisal. i met osama bin laden in pakistan in 1985. >> reporter: prince turki al faisal was the head of saudi arabia's intelligence service. he told me that in 1990 bin laden offered up his army to drive out the communists from neighboring yemen but the saudis didn't take him seriously. later that year, when saddam