Peter Bergen Quotes
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The terrorists who have succeeded in carrying out spectacular attacks against Western targets in the past have been college-educated, technically proficient men who are capable…
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Bin Laden was 200 miles away from the area where all of these drone strikes were taking out his key leaders, he was able to…
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Bin Laden's death is just a punctuation point on a set of problems they've had for a long time. I think the prognosis for al-Qaida…
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I've interviewed multiple people who know bin Laden... who tend to have a universal picture of what he's like, which is: modest, retiring, unassuming, kind…
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In February I secured permission to enter Osama bin Laden's compound in the northern Pakistani city of Abbottabad, where he was killed and where he…
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The image we have of bin Laden in his final years in Abbottabad is of an aging man with a graying beard watching old footage…
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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 theories…
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Bin Laden comes out of a business background - he studied public administration and economics at university, and he worked for his family company, which…
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At one point people in al Qaeda were actually drawing monthly paychecks when they were based in Sudan.
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I am very suspicious of the notion that somehow bin Laden was a media creation... Bin Laden's actions made him into a big deal. Not…
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Often it is important to listen to what people aren't saying.
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I stepped into the bedroom where he was killed and looked up at the ceiling, where you could still see the patterns of blood that…
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And in the end, bin Laden died in a squalid suburban compound surrounded by his wives and children and far from the front lines of…
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