Against Quote by Richard Engel

The United States has conducted an operation that killed Osama bin Laden, the leader of al Qaeda and a terrorist who is responsible for…

— Barack Obama

The 9/11 attack itself played out around the world, with planning meetings in Malaysia, operatives taking flight lessons in the United States, coordination by…

— Peter Bergen

A decade and a half ago, the U.S. Air Force dropped massive 15,000-pound 'Daisy Cutter' bombs on the Tora Bora complex where Osama bin…

— Peter Bergen

Osama bin Laden is very shrewd. But he struck me, even in 1997, as being remarkably out of touch. I remember thinking this does…

— Robert Fisk

Bin Laden is dead, and most of his friends are dead. But did it need to cost a trillion dollars and two land wars,…

— Richard Engel

Over in Afghanistan, Osama stuck his head out of the cave and saw a shadow. So, that means six more weeks of bombing.

— David Letterman

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

Osama Bin Laden is dead? Oh my God, that was so easy! And it only took two trillion dollars, two wars and too many…

— Christopher Titus

The real question was, here we had this information, Bin Laden intends to strike in the United States. We knew they had struck before…

— Richard Ben-Veniste

It was Osama bin Laden and al-Qaeda who attacked the U.S. on September 11, 2001, not Saddam Hussein and Iraq.

— Peter DeFazio

Bin Laden was 200 miles away from the area where all of these drone strikes were taking out his key leaders in al-Qaida. He…

— Peter Bergen

In 2016, Washington and its coalition partners conducted more than 7,000 strikes in Iraq and Syria. And in Libya, the United States has conducted…

— Peter Bergen