Bin laden Quote by Adam Curtis

Bin Laden was, though, a product of a monumental miscalculation by western security agencies. Throughout the 80s he was armed by the CIA and…

— Robin Cook

Osama bin Laden, the Saudi-born revolutionary who is believed by most Arab and Iranian observers to be the inspiration of the attacks in New…

— James Buchan

Bin Laden didn't come from the abstract. He came from somewhere, and if you look where ... you'll see America's hand of villainy.

— Harry Belafonte

Bin Laden was 200 miles away from the area where all of these drone strikes were taking out his key leaders in al-Qaida. He…

— Peter Bergen

When news of the first plane's hitting the World Trade Center reached them, bin Laden's followers exploded with joy. But shrewder members of al-Qaeda…

— Peter Bergen

Bin Laden's role in the war against the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan in the 1980s had made him a hero around the Middle East.

— Peter Bergen

Osama bin Laden has managed to replace fear of God and adherence to the Quran with his philosophy of jihad above all else. What's…

— Malcolm Nance

“He was so far from being able to carry out such threats that one might conclude that the author of this document was utterly…

— Lawrence Wright

Remember back then we thought about al Qaeda in Afghanistan and Pakistan and a few other places? well, we've seen al Qaeda metastasize. It…

— Tom Ridge

We [Americans] move about the world arrogantly, calling wars when we want, overthrowing governments when we want. There is a price to be paid…

— Harry Belafonte

Osama bin Laden is very shrewd. But he struck me, even in 1997, as being remarkably out of touch. I remember thinking this does…

— Robert Fisk

Bin Laden had come to the delusional conclusion that the United States was as weak as the Soviet Union had once been.

— Peter Bergen