>He was a planned patsy for years.
https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/binladen/who/miller.html
ABC reporter John Miller recounts his May 1998 hour-long interview with Osama Bin Laden at his mountaintop camp in southern Afghanistan. The interview took place a little more than two months before Al Qaeda's truckbombings of the two U.S. embassies in East Africa.