but al qaeda insiders were saying, you know, this was a tactical success but a strategic disaster. we lost our base in afghanistan. the taliban no longer exists more or less. our group has been very much damaged. bin laden s son, omar, left him. he basically said to his father, these attacks were dumb. they were stupid. we ve got this 800-pound gorilla after us now. in fact, i m going to leave. and he left afghanistan and he went to saudi arabia and he s basically i think washed his hands of his father. reporter: on november 12th, kabul was overtaken by an afghan militia allied with the united states. the taliban were routed and bin laden ran to the one refuge he knew best the afghan mountains. so what will the future of osama bin laden s jihad look like? those who knew him say that his holy war and the violence it ignited will continue on. and everywhere people are wondering when al qaeda will
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
qaeda. not far from here, just across the border in afghanistan, he disappeared shortly after 9/11. to know more about osama bin laden, to bring you his whole story, we visited his homes, his headquarters, his hideouts. we journeyed in his footsteps, from saudi arabia to pakistan to afghanistan. those who have prayed with him, lived with him, and fought for him share of story of his gradual but deadly transformation. from a quiet religious boy to the angry voice of holy war.
hamas and hezbollah before take on iran. in jordan, the saadies and other gulf arabs which traditionally has helped funds jordan have cut back on the funding. that s because the threat to the kingdom is different. in the past the threat from radical extremists of any kind were unwelcome. certainly the saudis didn t want a true democracy in jordan. but now the threats from muslim brotherhood affiliated groups are more attractive to the saadies. the saudis see jordan s king as to westernized and too liberal. i have seen the saudis at work in many, many countries. their goal is always to purify islam. the key to understanding the saudi role is they don t care about the well favor muslims. they care about the purity of islam. so you have this conflict with
here s christiane ammanture. he was a young gentleman, very gentle, very polite. he said if i see you again, i ll kill you. he is the most popular muslim leader in the islamic world today. translator: his voice. when you hear it, it makes you want to stand up right away to join him, to fight. what he s good at is killing civilians. osama bin laden was the world s most wanted terrorist. he haunted americans and millions of others around the world. i m christiane amanpour in peshawar, pakistan, the birthplace of bin laden s terrorist organization, al qaeda. not far from here, just across the border in afghanistan, he disappeared shortly after 9/11. to know more about osama bin laden, to bring you his whole story, we visited his homes, his headquarters, his hideouts. we journeyed in his footsteps, from saudi arabia to pakistan to afghanistan. those who have prayed with him, lived with him, and fought for him share of story of his gradual but deadly transformation.