The second interview happened a year later, in 1998. The two spent three days together. Bin Laden tried to justify his decree to kill innocent non-Muslims. Though not an Islamic scholar, Mir says he kept pressing the terrorist leader with counter-arguments.



Mir's notes became so extensive that he told Bin Laden it would be impossible to summarise their discussion in a newspaper article. It was then that Bin Laden suggested he write a book.
 
Mir's third meeting took place in Kabul in November 2001, under intense US bombing. "I informed him about the book and said it was ready and I would like him to review the script.


He said he was in a hurry and could only give a short interview. When he was running away, the bombing started, and I ran away with one of his security guards. One of the al- Qa'ida leaders said, 'Now you are free to publish whatever you want.' So I am no more bound to that agreement which was signed between me and him." Mir had said then.