Al Quote by Peter Bergen Download Open image “The American incarceration of Sheikh Rahman was a hot-button issue for al Qaeda for many years.” — Peter Bergen ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.9 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Al American Incarceration Issue Many
Sheikh Rahman's fatwa was the first time that anyone associated with al Qaeda had given religious sanction to attacks on American aviation, shipping and… — Peter Bergen Copy Share Image
“Fitzgerald and the FBI agents who worked with him in New York all knew that Ali Mohamed was working for al-Qaeda. They decided to… — Tim Weiner Copy Share Image
“In the spring of 2004, the FBI arrested Mohammed Junaid Babar, an al Qaeda agent, as he returned to the U.S. from a terrorist planning meeting in Pakistan (CNN News – August 11, 2004). Facing the potential of a 70 year federal prison sentence, Babar confessed that al Qaeda “was planning a spectacular attack on American soil–a nuclear 9/11 that… — John Price Copy Share
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Al Qaeda is not the organization now that it was before. It is under stress organizationally. Its leadership spends more time trying to figure… — Cofer Black Copy Share Image
Al Qaeda's leaders seek to reverse what they claim are corrupt Islamic practices bookended by the Mongol invasions in 1256 and Ataturk's ending the… — Malcolm Nance Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
The attacks of September 11 were made possible, in part, by the fact that U.S. law enforcement had a bias that 'rich Saudis are… — Malcolm Nance Copy Share Image
Al Qaeda has no place in Pakistan. It's a threat to Pakistan. And there should be a convergence of interests between the Pakistani state… — David Miliband Copy Share Image
“Until al Qaeda attacked the United States on September 11, 2001, Hizballah had killed more Americans than had any terrorist group in history.” — Robert M. Gates Copy Share Image
In my book, I detail the critical information we obtained from al Qaeda terrorists after they became compliant following a short period of enhanced interrogation. I have no doubt that that interrogation was legal, necessary and saved lives. — Jose A. Rodriguez, Jr Copy Share
So Pakistan is a country that I'm very fond of and have spent a lot of time, but it is a country where conspiracy… — Peter Bergen Copy Share Image
The Trump administration launched the cruise missile strikes in Syria, an act of war, without a U.N. resolution or Congressional authorization. — Peter Bergen Copy Share Image
The deep problems that afflict the Middle East are not easy to fix, but they must be dealt with if we are not to… — Peter Bergen Copy Share Image
The dirty little secret of the intelligence world is that much of what you really need to know isn't exactly a secret anyway. — Peter Bergen Copy Share Image
Abedi appears to be one of the many thousands of Western Muslims who have embraced militant Islam, often as a way of trying to… — Peter Bergen Copy Share Image
Trump has claimed he knows more about ISIS than America's leading generals. Clearly, this is also total nonsense; he doesn't seem to have done… — Peter Bergen Copy Share Image
If you don't understand what al Qaeda was trying to do on 9/11, if you don't have a sense of who Osama bin Laden… — Peter Bergen Copy Share Image
As early as 1993, members of bin Laden's group had been planning an attack on the American Embassy in Nairobi, Kenya. — Peter Bergen Copy Share Image
The reality is that Trump's focus on immigrants is to misconceive of the terrorist problem that exists in the United States. — Peter Bergen Copy Share Image
ISIS despises the Russian government for its support of the Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad, and so it's no surprise that ISIS began targeting Russia in 2015, around the same time that Russia first intervened in the Syrian civil war. — Peter Bergen Copy Share
The Sunni militants that make up ISIS are not the underlying problem in Syria and Iraq, but rather they are a symptom of other… — Peter Bergen Copy Share Image
Keeping a relatively small, predominantly U.S. Special Forces presence in Afghanistan to continue to train the Afghan army past December 2016 is a wise… — Peter Bergen Copy Share Image
I like 'The Usual Suspects'. Great film. I also like 'Scarface', films like that. Lots of gangster films. I really like watching all kinds… — Barkhad Abdi Copy Share Image
Al Jazeera is a representation of, you know, diversity in the Arab world. In our newsroom, we have every single nationality, we have every… — Wadah Khanfar Copy Share Image
If the practice is torture for the al Qaeda operative who masterminded the killing of three thousand Americans, why weren't there court-martials in the… — Jose A. Rodriguez, Jr Copy Share Image
Searches of al Qaeda sites in Afghanistan, undertaken since American-backed forces took control there, are not known to have turned up a significant cache… — Barton Gellman Copy Share Image
There are many causes of violent deaths in America - murders and traffic accidents - that we do not approach with the same 'no… — Dennis C. Blair Copy Share Image
If you want to join the Republican party, they have to let you in. There's nothing they can do about it. I mean, if… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
Brian came back in on the road and Al stayed, but Al's the original member of the group. — Bruce Johnston Copy Share Image
News is the backbone of our network; the main commodity and the main successes of Al Jazeera came out of our involvement in covering… — Wadah Khanfar Copy Share Image
And beyond that, the next issue is how do we guarantee one of these weapons, not necessarily this missile, but nuclear weapons ends up… — Lawrence Eagleburger Copy Share Image
I started, actually, as an analyst on African affairs, mainly on Al Jazeera. I remember the first few series were about Saudi students, and… — Wadah Khanfar Copy Share Image
That is because the conflict with al Qaeda is not governed by the Geneva Conventions, which applies only to international conflicts between states that… — John Yoo Copy Share Image