Typically, terrorist attacks produce a rally-around-the flag effect as was the case after 9/11 and the huge outpouring of public support that… — Peter Bergen Copy Share Image
When ISIS and al Qaeda have attacked or plotted attacks in the West in the past decade or so, they have invariably… — 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
The 9/11 attack itself played out around the world, with planning meetings in Malaysia, operatives taking flight lessons in the United States,… — 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
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
One only has to look at the debacle that has unfolded in Iraq after the withdrawal of U.S. troops at the end… — 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
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
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
The rise of ISIS starts with a Jordanian thug named Abu Musab al-Zarqawi who founded ISIS' parent organization, al Qaeda, in Iraq.… — Peter Bergen Copy Share Image
The terrorists who have succeeded in carrying out spectacular attacks against Western targets in the past have been college-educated, technically proficient men… — Peter Bergen Copy Share Image
In mid-November 2001, as they moved toward the city of Kandahar, the Taliban's de facto capital in southern Afghanistan, Amerine's team called… — Peter Bergen Copy Share Image
The reason that Islamist militants can assert that jihad is necessary against the perceived enemies of Islam is that there is sufficient… — Peter Bergen Copy Share Image
The diagnosis that poverty, lack of education, or lack of opportunities have much to do with terrorism requires a fundamentally optimistic view… — Peter Bergen Copy Share Image
Tamerlan Tsarnaev, one of the two brothers who carried out the marathon bombing, was a non-practicing Muslim who only became an Islamist… — 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
The commonly accepted definition of terrorism is that it is politically motivated violence directed at civilians by entities other than a state.… — Peter Bergen Copy Share Image
The reason that attacks by American terrorists who are not jihadist militants are sometimes not called 'terrorism' is, in part, because 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
One of the themes of 'The Longest War,' my book, which came out before the Arab spring happened, was how al-Qaida and bin Laden… — Peter Bergen Copy Share Image
Because 9/11 was carried out by 19 foreign-born Arab hijackers, many assume that all terrorists who attack the West are foreigners. — 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
