The interview taped Friday at the White House was scheduled for broadcast on Sunday by DawnNews, which is Pakistan's first 24-hour English-language news channel.
"There is no ideological content to his speeches, " said Nusrat Javed, a liberal commentator who hosts of one of Pakistan's leading political talk shows, on the Aaj News channel.
According to Reuters, the interviews took place in Karachi, Pakistan, and were arranged by a liaison officer from al-Qaeda, whom the channel identified as Abu Bakr.