The American incarceration of Sheikh Rahman was a hot-button issue for al Qaeda for many years. — Peter Bergen Copy Share Image
At one point people in al Qaeda were actually drawing monthly paychecks when they were based in Sudan. — Peter Bergen Copy Share Image
Apostasy is a grave crime in Islam and punishable by death in the eyes of members of al Qaeda. — Peter Bergen Copy Share Image
Some might say that that while al Qaeda the organization may be basically dead, its ideology continues to thrive and to inspire… — Peter Bergen Copy Share Image
Al-Qaeda, which means 'the base' in English, lost its base and training camps in Afghanistan, while its leaders were on the run,… — 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
The special reverence that al Qaeda had for Sheikh Rahman was underlined by a two-hour propaganda videotape that the group's media division… — Peter Bergen Copy Share Image
Contrary to what the Americans frequently reiterated, al-Qaeda did not have any relationship with Saddam Hussein or his regime. — Peter Bergen Copy Share Image
Bush administration officials, of course, deny that they didn't take the threat urgently enough, but there is no debating that in their… — 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
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
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
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
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
