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
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
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
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
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
'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
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
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
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
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
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
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
