New Osama Bin Laden documentary from Channel 4 will explore the journey of ‘global terrorist mastermind’

A new Bin Laden documentary is in the works (Picture: Getty)

Channel 4 has commissioned a new documentary series looking at the life of terrorist Osama Bin Laden.

Bin Laden: The Inside Story will track his journey from ‘quiet introspective son of a billionaire to global terrorist mastermind’, the broadcaster said in a statement.

Journalists who interviewed him, people who fought alongside him, and members of terrorist organisation Al-Qaeda will feature in the programme.

Al-Qaeda members Abu Hafs and Sayed Ramen Wahdiyar are also among those who are set to contribute to the three-part documentary.

Bin Laden was a founder of the militant terrorist organisation Al-Qaeda and helped mastermind the September 11 attacks, which resulted in the deaths of nearly 3,000.

9/11 prompted the United States, on the orders of President George W. Bush, to initiate the War on Terror.

Bin Laden was behind 9/11 (Picture: Getty)

From 2001 to 2011, he became the subject of a decade-long international manhunt, with the FBI offering a $25million (£18million) bounty in their search for him.

Bin Laden was eventually shot and killed on May 2, 2011 by US Navy SEALs inside a private residential compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan.

Channel 4 factual commissioning editor Sacha Mirzoeff said: ‘As Osama Bin Laden was the world’s most infamous terrorist, the many films about him generally focus on the impact of his acts of terror.

‘But how much do we really know about the man himself?

Bin Laden was killed in 2011 (Picture: Getty)

‘Bin Laden: The Inside Story looks at the person behind the headlines and highlights some of his sliding door moments.

‘It will be told from an international cast of characters who knew him personally from childhood to his last years.’

Executive producer Sanjay Singhal added: ‘The deeper you look into the life of Osama Bin Laden, the more extraordinary it seems.

‘From the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan to the war on terror, he watches as the world changes around him – until he decides to change it in return.’

The news of this new Bin Laden documentary comes after Channel 4 announced it will be taking a closer look into the world-renowned case of Louise Woodward, a nanny who was charged with murdering eight-month-old Matthew Eappen.

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She was jailed for 15 years but released after 279 days as the charge was reduced to one of involuntary manslaughter.

Louise Woodward: Villain Or Victim? is a three-part documentary series that will examine the murder charge, trial, and appeal in a new context.

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