Peter L. Bergen Quotes

Peter L. Bergen — British Journalist born on December 12, 1962,

Peter Bergen is an Americanprint and broadcast journalist, author, documentary producer, and CNN's national security analyst. In 1997, Bergen produced the first television interview with Osama bin Laden. The interview, which aired on CNN, marked the first time that bin Laden declared war against the United States to a Western audience. Bergen has written four books: Holy War, Inc.: Inside the Secret World of Osama bin Laden, The Osama bin Laden I Know, The Longest War: The Enduring Conflict Between America and al-Qaeda, and Manhunt: The Ten-Year Search for Bin Laden From 9/11 to Abbottabad. Three of the books were New York Times bestsellers and they have been translated into twenty languages... (wikipedia)

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 theories have a life of their own.

I stepped into the bedroom where he was killed and looked up at the ceiling, where you could still see the patterns of blood that had spurted from bin Laden's head when the bullet fired by a U.S. Navy SEAL tore through the terrorist leader's face.

Bin Laden comes out of a business background - he studied public administration and economics at university, and he worked for his family company, which was obviously a rather successful enterprise.

In February I secured permission to enter Osama bin Laden's compound in the northern Pakistani city of Abbottabad, where he was killed and where he had lived for the last half-decade of his life; the first, and only, journalist to do so.

At one point people in al Qaeda were actually drawing monthly paychecks when they were based in Sudan.

Peter L. Bergen Quotes

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