Als Quote by Robert Baer

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

“Zarqawi had staked out a spot at the forefront of the global jihadist movement. No longer was he merely the leader of a particularly…

— Joby Warrick

Al-Qaida became the new Soviet Union, and in the process, Bin Laden became a demonic, terrifyingly powerful figure brooding in a cave while he…

— Adam Curtis

There is every likelihood that the Jihadi movement, much of it highly critical of bin Laden, could have been split and undermined after 9/11.

— Noam Chomsky

Bin Laden was 200 miles away from the area where all of these drone strikes were taking out his key leaders, he was able…

— Peter Bergen

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

In short, the hunt for bin Laden could not have been accomplished without every form of American intelligence-gathering.

— Peter Bergen

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

Bin Laden was, though, a product of a monumental miscalculation by western security agencies. Throughout the 80s he was armed by the CIA and…

— Robin Cook

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

Mohammed al-Qahtani was not alleged to be a leader of the Sept. 11 plot. He was not trained as a pilot. If he was…

— Bill Dedman

A number of analysts have observed that although bin Laden was finally killed, he won some major successes in his war against the U.S.

— Noam Chomsky