Bin laden Quote by Peter Bergen

Al-Qaida became the new Soviet Union, and in the process, Bin Laden became a demonic, terrifyingly powerful figure brooding in a cave while he…

— Adam Curtis

Osama bin Laden fervently hoped that attacking the United States would create pressure on American leaders to reduce their support for Middle Eastern regimes.…

— Peter Bergen

Despite failing to get bin Laden, the U.S. government and media portrayed the early Afghanistan war as a great victory.

— Michael Hastings

“The Soviet Union had just said dasvidaniya to itself, the Cold War had suddenly ended, the United States was embarking on the longest-running economic…

— Jeffrey Gettleman

Ironically, many of these people, including Osama bin Laden and the mujahedeen, were, in fact, nourished by the United States in the early eighties…

— Edward Said

Bin Laden was constantly revolving in his mind the fact that he had got rid of the Russians; therefore, the Americans can be got…

— Robert Fisk

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

“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

A number of analysts have observed that although bin Laden was finally killed, he won some major successes in his war against the U.S.

— Noam Chomsky

“Just as the West’s support for the Afghan jihad against the Soviets in the 1980s laid the ground for the rise of Islamist terrorism,…

— Edward Luce

“As Osama bin Laden puts it: "In this final phase of the ongoing struggle, the world of the infidels was divided between two superpowers--the…

— Bernard Lewis

Since the end of the Cold War, Soviet aggression had been replaced by a number of particularly venomous threats, from Timothy McVeigh to Osama…

— Barbara Olson