Birth Quote by Peter Bergen

Six years after al-Awlaki was born, his family moved back to Yemen, but he returned to the States for college and remained there for…

— Peter Bergen

Al-Awlaki was born here, he is an American citizen. He was never tried or charged for any crimes. No one knows if he killed…

— Ron Paul

“Al-Zawahiri, the son of an upper middle-class family who had grown up in Al-Maadi, an affluent Cairene suburb, joined the Muslim Brotherhood at the…

— Tarek Osman

On November 28, 2016, Abdul Razak Ali Artan, an 18-year-old legal resident of the United States whose family was originally from Somalia, used a…

— Peter Bergen

“You think we live in Norway or something? Amir Jordan is Pakistani. There's also an Asian guy, some Puerto Ricans, and the starting left…

— Sarah Ockler

Abu Musab al-Suri is someone I got to know pretty well because he's a Syrian. Very bright guy, lived in London. He actually was…

— Peter Bergen

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

“His U.S. interrogators wanted to know why he and others turned to terrorism. “If you are someone with no job, no family, and you…

— Karen Elliott House

“Abdul brushed the dirt from the American's forehead, where it had been pressed to the cool ground. "Not Pakistan man," he said. "But if…

— Greg Mortenson

I was initially assigned to the American Consulate in Aden, not as Principal Officer but as a supernumerary officer to handle Yemen affairs. We…

— Hermann Eilts

When you talk about Al-Qaeda it doesn't matter if he's Syrian or American or from Europe or from Asia or Africa.

— Bashar al-Assad

“He found a job as an independent contract and business negotiator for a number of well-to-do Saudi families of Yemeni extraction, including the powerful…

— Kamal Al-Solaylee