Able Quote by Peter Bergen

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

Bin Laden was very keen to point out to me that his forces had fought the Americans in Somalia. He also wanted to talk…

— Robert Fisk

“Zarqawi had staked out a spot at the forefront of the global jihadist movement. No longer was he merely the leader of a particularly…

— Joby Warrick

When Bush had an opportunity to capture or kill bin Laden, he took his focus off of him, outsourced the job to Afghan warlords…

— Senator John Kerry

Bin Laden comes out of a business background - he studied public administration and economics at university, and he worked for his family company,…

— Peter Bergen

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.…

— Peter Bergen

If Martin [Luther King, Jr.]'s philosophy had been embraced and lived out in Iraq and other places, we wouldn't have bin Ladens.

— Coretta Scott King

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

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

In the alternate universe of conservative talk radio, the killing of Bin Laden coincidentally happened on Barack Obama's watch. He had to be kicked…

— Jackson Katz

Individuals in various countries like Egypt and Saudi Arabia listen to the tapes of bin Laden. They gather in groups of four or five.…

— Robert Fisk

Bin Laden always wanted to get rid of Mubarek and Ben Ali and Gaddafi and so on, claiming that they were all infidels working…

— Robert Fisk