Bin Laden was intelligent, well-informed, and low key. The people around him treated him with great deference, calling him 'sheikh,' a term… — Peter Bergen Copy Share Image
Bin Laden had come to the delusional conclusion that the United States was as weak as the Soviet Union had once been. — Peter Bergen Copy Share Image
What did U.S. officials have to lose by saying that bin Laden was being protected by the Pakistanis, if it were true? — Peter Bergen Copy Share Image
And in the end, bin Laden died in a squalid suburban compound surrounded by his wives and children and far from the… — Peter Bergen Copy Share Image
It is hard to imagine two more final endings to the 'war on terror' than the popular revolts against the authoritarian regimes… — Peter Bergen Copy Share Image
The money that bin Laden inherited was about 20 million dollars over the course of many years, not the much larger sums… — Peter Bergen Copy Share Image
As early as 1993, members of bin Laden's group had been planning an attack on the American Embassy in Nairobi, Kenya. — Peter Bergen Copy Share Image
Bin Laden's role in the war against the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan in the 1980s had made him a hero around the… — Peter Bergen Copy Share Image
If you don't understand what al Qaeda was trying to do on 9/11, if you don't have a sense of who Osama… — Peter Bergen Copy Share Image
Abu Musab al-Suri is someone I got to know pretty well because he's a Syrian. Very bright guy, lived in London. He… — Peter Bergen Copy Share Image
When news of the first plane's hitting the World Trade Center reached them, bin Laden's followers exploded with joy. But shrewder members… — Peter Bergen Copy Share Image
Common sense would tell you that the idea that Saudi Arabia was paying for bin Laden's expenses while he was living in… — Peter Bergen Copy Share Image
Osama bin Laden fervently hoped that attacking the United States would create pressure on American leaders to reduce their support for Middle… — Peter Bergen Copy Share Image
What made al-Awlaki so influential is that, unlike a number of leaders of al Qaeda such as Osama bin Laden, he was… — Peter Bergen Copy Share Image
I stepped into the bedroom where he was killed and looked up at the ceiling, where you could still see the patterns… — Peter Bergen Copy Share Image
While the story about the hunt for bin Laden has been exhaustively reported and the key sources and witnesses are in agreement… — Peter Bergen Copy Share Image
In short, the hunt for bin Laden could not have been accomplished without every form of American intelligence-gathering. — Peter Bergen Copy Share Image
I've interviewed multiple people who know bin Laden... who tend to have a universal picture of what he's like, which is: modest,… — Peter Bergen Copy Share Image
One of the themes of 'The Longest War,' my book, which came out before the Arab spring happened, was how al-Qaida and… — Peter Bergen Copy Share Image
What bin Laden had hoped to achieve in Afghanistan in the post-9/11 period, which was to drag the United States into a… — Peter Bergen Copy Share Image
I was the only outsider to visit the Abbottabad compound where bin Laden lived before the Pakistani military demolished it. — Peter Bergen Copy Share Image
If the Arab Spring was a large nail in the coffin of al-Qaeda's ideology, the death of bin Laden was an equally… — Peter Bergen Copy Share Image
A decade and a half ago, the U.S. Air Force dropped massive 15,000-pound 'Daisy Cutter' bombs on the Tora Bora complex where… — Peter Bergen Copy Share Image
Most Muslims don't want to live in some Taliban-style utopia, which is what bin Laden and allied groups are offering. — Peter Bergen Copy Share Image
Hersh's account of the bin Laden raid is a farrago of nonsense that is contravened by a multitude of eyewitness accounts, inconvenient… — Peter Bergen Copy Share Image
I am very suspicious of the notion that somehow bin Laden was a media creation... Bin Laden's actions made him into a… — Peter Bergen Copy Share Image
Bin Laden studied economics and public administration before he turned to a life of jihad. — Peter Bergen Copy Share Image
For many, embracing the ideology of Osama bin Laden or ISIS allowed them to become the heroes of their own story as… — Peter Bergen Copy Share Image
As Michael Scheuer, who ran the C.I.A.'s bin Laden unit until 1999, has pointed out, if bin Laden believed in Christmas, the… — Peter Bergen Copy Share Image
Bin Laden was 200 miles away from the area where all of these drone strikes were taking out his key leaders in… — Peter Bergen Copy Share Image
Bin Laden comes out of a business background - he studied public administration and economics at university, and he worked for his… — Peter Bergen Copy Share Image
The image we have of bin Laden in his final years in Abbottabad is of an aging man with a graying beard… — Peter Bergen Copy Share Image
In February I secured permission to enter Osama bin Laden's compound in the northern Pakistani city of Abbottabad, where he was killed… — Peter Bergen Copy Share Image
'Zero Dark Thirty' is a great piece of filmmaking and does a valuable public service by raising difficult questions most Hollywood movies… — Peter Bergen Copy Share Image
My quest to meet Osama bin Laden began in North London early in 1997. In the Dollis Hill section, I contacted Khaled… — Peter Bergen Copy Share Image
Bin Laden's death is just a punctuation point on a set of problems they've had for a long time. I think the… — Peter Bergen Copy Share Image
Bin Laden was 200 miles away from the area where all of these drone strikes were taking out his key leaders, he… — Peter Bergen Copy Share Image
So Pakistan is a country that I'm very fond of and have spent a lot of time, but it is a country where conspiracy… — Peter Bergen Copy Share Image
The Trump administration launched the cruise missile strikes in Syria, an act of war, without a U.N. resolution or Congressional authorization. — Peter Bergen Copy Share Image
The deep problems that afflict the Middle East are not easy to fix, but they must be dealt with if we are not to… — Peter Bergen Copy Share Image
The dirty little secret of the intelligence world is that much of what you really need to know isn't exactly a secret anyway. — Peter Bergen Copy Share Image
Abedi appears to be one of the many thousands of Western Muslims who have embraced militant Islam, often as a way of trying to… — Peter Bergen Copy Share Image
Trump has claimed he knows more about ISIS than America's leading generals. Clearly, this is also total nonsense; he doesn't seem to have done… — Peter Bergen Copy Share Image
If you don't understand what al Qaeda was trying to do on 9/11, if you don't have a sense of who Osama bin Laden… — Peter Bergen Copy Share Image
As early as 1993, members of bin Laden's group had been planning an attack on the American Embassy in Nairobi, Kenya. — Peter Bergen Copy Share Image
The reality is that Trump's focus on immigrants is to misconceive of the terrorist problem that exists in the United States. — Peter Bergen Copy Share Image
ISIS despises the Russian government for its support of the Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad, and so it's no surprise that ISIS began targeting Russia… — Peter Bergen Copy Share Image
The Sunni militants that make up ISIS are not the underlying problem in Syria and Iraq, but rather they are a symptom of other… — Peter Bergen Copy Share Image
Keeping a relatively small, predominantly U.S. Special Forces presence in Afghanistan to continue to train the Afghan army past December 2016 is a wise… — Peter Bergen Copy Share Image
