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, he was able…

— 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

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

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

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

“on December 7, 2001, Osama announced that he was leaving. “He deserted us,” remembers Al-Hubayshi bitterly. “After five weeks his people came round telling…

— Robert Lacey

Did bin Laden act alone, through his own al-Qaida network, in launching the attacks? About that I'm far more certain and emphatic: no.

— Robert Baer

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

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

One cannot understate the importance of eliminating Bin Laden. He was a symbolic head of the organisation and, as we now know, an operational…

— Eric Holder