Around Quote by Peter Bergen

Without the connotation good or bad, bin Laden's a great man in the sense that he's influenced the course of history.

— Michael Scheuer

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

He [Osama bin Laden] is clearly an odd combination of a 12th-century theologian and a 21st-century CEO. He runs an absolutely unique organization in…

— Michael Scheuer

Bin Laden actually is the most European or westernized of all the Arab leaders. He's the one who is the most polished ironically. He's…

— Alexander Siddig

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,…

— Peter Bergen

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

Osama Bin Laden was responsible for the deaths of thousands of innocent people. Terror was brought to many countries on his direct orders and…

— Angela Merkel

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

Islam is a civilization that is fractured linguistically, ethnically, sectarian-wise, as ours is. What bin Laden has done, though, is to identify a number…

— Michael Scheuer

Well, you got to remember, bin Laden killed 3,000 Americans and, in some ways, he and his ideology killed tens of thousands of his…

— Sebastian Junger

“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

Bin Laden didn't come from the abstract. He came from somewhere, and if you look where ... you'll see America's hand of villainy.

— Harry Belafonte