Al Quote by Peter Bergen

The American incarceration of Sheikh Rahman was a hot-button issue for al Qaeda for many years.

— Peter Bergen

The special reverence that al Qaeda had for Sheikh Rahman was underlined by a two-hour propaganda videotape that the group's media division released in…

— Peter Bergen

Osama bin Laden's hijacked planes not only attacked the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. They also attacked Islam as…

— Jamal Khashoggi

I mean you think about the guy, the Nigerian guy, who was going to blow up the plane. He was wearing a pair of…

— David Letterman

Whatever the political injustices are that created an environment that brought this about, it was not Americans who flew those planes into those buildings.…

— Robert Fisk

Islam was hijacked on that September 11, 2001, on that plane, as an innocent victim.

— Hamza Yusuf

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

What did U.S. officials have to lose by saying that bin Laden was being protected by the Pakistanis, if it were true?

— 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

Before 9/11, al-Qaeda was an organization of global reach.

— Peter Bergen

Saudi hijackers first came into contact with al-Qaeda and went through Terrorism 101 when they signed up for the jihad in Afghanistan.

— Thomas Friedman

Sheikh Rahman had a doctorate in Islamic jurisprudence from al-Azhar University in Cairo, the Harvard of Islamic thought. He also had a long history…

— Peter Bergen