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
Bin Laden studied economics and public administration before he turned to a life of jihad. — 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
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
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
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
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'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
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
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
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
