Highlights of his career include On Monday September 26 , 2005 , a Spanish court found Alluni guilty of collaboration with al-Qaida , sentencing the Syrian-born , naturalized Spaniard to seven years in jail . Allouni , who insisted on his innocence throughout Europe 's biggest al-Qaida trial , interviewed the group 's leader Osama bin Laden in Afghanistan weeks after the September 11 attacks in the United States . Accused of acting as a financial courier to the group while in Afghanistan , Alluni , who had faced a maximum nine-year term , said in testimony he was only doing his job as a journalist . A campaign regarding his innocence has been mounted by amongst others Al Jazeera and the Arab Commission for Human Rights . On January 17 , 2012 , a European court decided that the seven-year term Allouni was given over charges of collusion with a terror organization was not legal . He was freed in March 2012 , and returned to Doha
September 11 attacks
September 11 attacks
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