عبدالباري عطوان

Controversial author Abdel Bari Atwan listens during the Brisbane Writers festival in Brisbane, 15 September 2007. Atwan, editor of the London-based newspaper Al-Quds Al Arabi is the last Western author to interview Osama Bin Laden and author of The Secret History of al-Qaeda. Australian government critics have accused the government of deliberately delaying the visa to grant Atwan entry into the country, in order to miss speaking at the festival, which ends September 16. AFP PHOTO/Heather Faulkner (Photo credit should read Heather Faulkner/AFP/Getty Images)