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

I am very suspicious of the notion that somehow bin Laden was a media creation... Bin Laden's actions made him into a big deal. Not the media..

Bin Laden comes out of a business background - he studied public administration and economics at university, and he worked for his family company, wh….

The image we have of bin Laden in his final years in Abbottabad is of an aging man with a graying beard watching old footage of himself; just another….

Bin Laden's death is just a punctuation point on a set of problems they've had for a long time. I think the prognosis for al-Qaida and groups like it….

Often it is important to listen to what people aren't saying..

Why should Americans care about the Nazi back story in World War II? If you don't have the Nazi back story in World War II, World War II is simply no….

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 bi….

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 h….

If you don't understand what al Qaeda was trying to do on 9/11, if you don't have a sense of who Osama bin Laden is as a person, if you don't have a ….

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….

The terrorists who have succeeded in carrying out spectacular attacks against Western targets in the past have been college-educated, technically pro….

And in the end, bin Laden died in a squalid suburban compound surrounded by his wives and children and far from the front lines of his holy war..

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 was able to indulge in hi….

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..

There's some pretty good academic research that suggest that what Americans don't like is losing..

Most Muslims don't want to live in some Taliban-style utopia, which is what bin Laden and allied groups are offering..