Looking terror in the eye
Before the cameras started rolling, he remembers the acute embarrassment when his producer insisted on combing his hair. He was 29 years of age and was just about to interview his first active “terrorist”.
It was the first of many. Talking to Terrorists: A Personal Journey from the IRA to Al Qaeda is an account of his 40-odd years covering terrorism, 30 years of which were spent in Northern Ireland, and the last decade criss-crossing the world in pursuit of Islamic fundamentalist terrorists and their victims and interrogators.
