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he started doing his own battle. my father doesn t want them to work separately and that s what bin laden did in 1987. reporter: their first test was the battle of jaji in 1987. hutafah azzam fought alongside bin laden. futayfah was suffering from low blood pressure in the thin, mountain air. it was a very, very hard battle. and he joined the battle for more than four days. reporter: the russians fell back. jaji was the first victory for bin laden s arab army. it was not a particularly significant moment in the afghan war. but from a psychological point of view, it was really the beginning of sort of bin laden s almost mythic persona, because a group of arabs had held off the soviets. it got a lot of play in the middle east. reporter: the once reticent and terrified bin laden was now ....
Reluctant to lead, was now ready to command his own all-arab army in afghanistan. his mentor adamantly opposed this idea. it was the beginning of a rift that would never heal. he started doing his own battle. my father doesn t want them to work separately and that s what bin laden did in 1987. reporter: their first test was the battle of jaji in 1987. hutafah azzam fought alongside bin laden. futayfah was suffering from low blood pressure in the thin, mountain air. it was a very, very hard battle. and he joined the battle for more than four days. reporter: the russians fell back. jaji was the first victory for bin laden s arab army. it was not a particularly significant moment in the afghan ....