Al Quote by Peter Bergen

Remember back then we thought about al Qaeda in Afghanistan and Pakistan and a few other places? well, we've seen al Qaeda metastasize. It…

— Tom Ridge

One of the problems of not allowing the American people to read what bin Laden has said is that in October 2001 just after…

— Michael Scheuer

The September 11, 2001, attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon prompted a fundamental shift in the American government's approach to Islamic terrorism.

— Amy Waldman

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

Al Qaeda is very media-savvy and very focused on what goes on in the global media.

— Michael Chertoff

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

— Peter Bergen

“With the November election looming and the president’s campaign rhetoric about decimating al-Qaeda becoming laughable, the White House endeavored to defraud the American people…

— Andrew McCarthy

Facts are now coming to light that show Muslims were not responsible for 9/11. A policy came out of the Pentagon to make war…

— Louis Farrakhan

This [terrorists attacks on 9/11] was part of nothing. It was a leap into another realm - the realm of crazy abstractions and mythological…

— Edward Said

9/11 was a sort of hinge event in American history, and all jihadi terrorist plots or attacks are kind of filtered through that lens.

— Peter Bergen

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

U.S. News Organizations observe the anniversary of September 11 with investigations about the nation's continuing vulnerability to terrorism. First, the New York Daily News…

— Dave Barry