Robert Fisk was a courageous, determined, and distinguished journalist in the 1990's due to his adventures searching for "the elusive bin Laden in various caves and hideouts along the Pakistani-Afghan border" (Robert Fisk, daring but controversial British war correspondent and author, dies at 74, by Phil Davidson) Fisk was successful and even "interviewed him three times in the 1990s, surrounded by bin Laden’s heavily armed guards."
Fisk's risk, determination, and importance of his work was the rhetoric that brought so many people to read his stories. He was lucky enough to encounter, and survive Osama Bin Laden on three separate occasions and get an interview with him to use for reports in the Times of London, where he also won the "British Foreign Reporter of the Year seven times". Through his successful years he was able to manage "conflict coverage of the Iran-Iraq War, the civil wars in Lebanon and in Algeria, (and) the first and second Gulf wars..." Even Bin Laden had words to say about Fisk, "he was said to have been impressed by Mr. Fisk’s determination to find him, his brazenness, his Arabic and his historical knowledge and reporting on the Middle East." In a public video from Bin Laden, he claimed Robert Fisk "is one of your compatriots and co-religionists and I consider him to be neutral" to his people.
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