Peter Bergen
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never seem to get bette... RICHARD A. MORAN The evidence was overwhelming in this case. CLAUDIA STEWART The evidence is becoming overwhelming that the program does not work. ROBERT HAYES As for September 11, let us not too easily grant the Americans possession of that date on the calend... J. M. COETZEE The universally praised independent, bipartisan commission established in the aftermath of the 9/11 ... TOM ALLEN DORIS LESSING JOHN WATERS The bin Laden tape has caused a knee-jerk reaction on the part of the market. VICTOR SHUM The death penalty is inhumane... whether that person is in a jail or it's bin Laden. DANNY GLOVER BRUCE STERLING The overwhelming majority (of the material they want redacted) was in the manuscript that was cleare... MARK ZAID TOM COTTON OLIVER STONE prior to any press reports of allegations linking the Sudanese gum arabic industry to Mr. Osama bin ... BOB MENENDEZ He told me that bin Laden is saying to President Clinton that the battle has not started yet and the... ABDEL ATWAN He told me that bin Laden is saying to President Clinton that the battle has not started yet and the... ABDEL BARI ATWAN I understand being less sexy than Osama bin Laden, but not less sexy than Carrot Top. That, I find o... GILBERT GOTTFRIED AARON MCGRUDER CURT WELDON JON MEACHAM But that revolution did not happen overnight and it did not happen because of September 11. He used,... DMITRI TRENIN Those who chooses to leave those they love behind;
knows not of the suffering they leave behind;
onl... JESSICA MOSLEY WARD CONDOLEEZZA RICE GEOFF MULGAN CORY DOCTOROW REBECCA MCNUTT JERRY FALWELL RICHARD DAWKINS [Weeks after this call, in January 2002, Lakhani travelled to the United States for the first of fou... HEMANT LAKHANI ROBERT FISK CURT WELDON CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS CHARLIE PIERCE You would have thought that after 9/11 the president would have finished the job in Afghanistan, and... BILL NELSON BROM MICHAEL MANDELBAUM Since the September 11 attacks, nearly 400 individuals have been arrested by the Justice Department ... JO BONNER
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BERGEN Osama bin Laden fervently hoped that attacking the United States would create pressure on American l... PETER L. BERGEN In picking Gen. Jim Mattis for Defense secretary, President-elect Donald Trump has said that he foun... PETER L. BERGEN The war on terror, sometimes known as the 'Global War on Terror' or by the clunky acronym GW... PETER L. BERGEN European countries simply do not have the ideological framework the United States has in the shape o... PETER L. BERGEN Trump, of course, has been very wrong in the past about important issues such as President Barack Ob... PETER L. BERGEN The Second Amendment is, of course, very much part of the American fabric. But the intent of the fou... PETER L. BERGEN Trump has long been a fan of Vladimir Putin but seems to be unaware that Russia's goal in Syria ... PETER L. BERGEN Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad belongs to the small Alawite sect and is therefore considered a here... PETER L. 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The attacks bear all the hallmarks of bin Laden 
We know from the material that was recovered from the bin Laden compound that bin Laden was looking ... 
I believe the title was 'Bin Laden Determined To Attack Inside the United States.' 
It can certainly be misleading to take the attributes of a movement, or the anxieties and contradict... 
We cannot explicitly link the recent terrorist attacks to the September 11 hijackers, 
I don't know what happens if they get bin Laden. I'm much more interested in what happens if they do... 
This resolution is further proof that Congress stands firmly behind our troops and remains resolved ... 
I kind of think that if you show conspiracy theorists a photo of the dead Bin Laden they will come u... 
I was imprisoned in the aftermath of the 11 September 2001 attacks, when Egypt's state security ... 
For us, the death of Osama bin Laden is a time of profound reflection. With his death, we remember a... 
Go to the internet and go to the FBI website and go to their international list of top ten terrorist... 
[T]his is an enemy for life, as well as an enemy of life. 
I don't know what happens if they get bin Laden. I'm much more interested in what happens if... 
With the death of bin Laden, it's finally time for Congress to bring back the pre-9-11 legal nor... 
There was no silver bullet that could have prevented the 11 September attacks. There was nothing dem... 
When Bush had an opportunity to capture or kill bin Laden, he took his focus off of him, outsourced ... 
(Bin Laden) speaks to the people of Iraq and talks about their struggle and how he is in partnership... 
Yes, what has happened is we have moved from responding to these terrorist attacks as acts of civil ... 
The evidence was overwhelming, 
Bin Laden had come to the delusional conclusion that the United States was as weak as the Soviet Uni... 
I can say Osama bin Laden, Mullah Omar, and Hekmatyar represent a threat to the world and we believe... 
Saddam Hussein didn't kill 3,100 people on Sept. 11. Osama bin Laden did, and as far as we know ... 
These three documents, this letter, is clear evidence linking the hijackers on the three separate fl... 
In 1995, we had evidence of the brother-in-law of Osama bin Laden being in the Philippines, living i... 
Sudan expelled bin Laden on May 18, 1996, to Afghanistan. 
We as Americans believe it's OK to kill people. We believe it's OK to invade a country that ... 
You want to know whether we're better off? I've got a little bumper sticker for you: Osama b... 
September 11 was terrible but, if one goes back over the history of the IRA, what happened to the Am... 
I imagine Johnny Mathis hates Bin Laden as much as I do, but could Johnny agree Bin Laden had a bett... 
People in the Pentagon had colleagues killed and maimed by bin Laden. They're trying to find bin... 
Information obtained from detainees at Guantanamo has been described by the CIA as 'the lead inf... 
Bin Laden was completely protected by the oil companies in this country who told President Bush not ... 
There's some new evidence that has just come out about the CIA planning terrorist attacks on U.S... 
The Sept. 11 commission's statement that it does not believe a secret military intelligence unit dis... 
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There was no silver bullet that could have prevented the 9/11 attacks. 
The wrongful arrest of tens of thousands of British Muslims after the September 11 attacks can be ex... 
Funny, for all surveillance, Osama bin Laden is still freeĀand we're not. Guess who's winning the "... 
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George Bush is a catastrophe for the world. And a dream for Bin Laden. 
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This has been the new normal since September 11. Everyone knows, but nobody says, that if something ... 
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Self-acceptance has been a blessed by-product of middle age. 
It's impossible to be more flat-chested than I am. 
Were women meant to do everything-work and have babies? 
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[T]here is wisdom in the selection of wisdom.