Peter Bergen
Peter Bergen
Peter Bergenis an American journalist, author, documentary producer, professor, think tank executive and CNN's national security analyst. Bergen has written or edited seven 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, Manhunt: The Ten-Year Search for Bin Laden From 9/11 to Abbottabad, Talibanistan: Negotiating the Borders Between Terror, Politics, and Religion, Drone Wars: Transforming Conflict, Law, and Policy, and United...
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Given the impact that Bin Laden has had on the recent history of the world, there is surprisingly a good deal that remains mysterious about him.
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The most obvious meaning of the tape is that bin Laden is still alive.
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After all, the chain of custody of these tapes is the one way to find bin Laden. He obviously feels secure enough that he can release a number of these tapes.
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Even by the standards of 1970s Saudi Arabia, it was a little unusual.
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One meeting does not make a conspiracy. Saddam Hussein does not engage in these types of acts.
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Saddam Hussein was put on notice that he can't do those type of things.
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That was a direct correlation. Most of the time there is no correlation.
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There's some pretty good academic research that suggest that what Americans don't like is losing.
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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.
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I've interviewed multiple people who know bin Laden... who tend to have a universal picture of what he's like, which is: modest, retiring, unassuming, kind of thoughtful - lots of things that don't fit with a mass murderer, which he is as well.