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.

- Peter Bergen

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

- Peter Bergen

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…

- Peter Bergen

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…

- Peter Bergen

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

- Peter Bergen

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

- Peter Bergen

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 …

- Peter Bergen

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…

- Peter Bergen

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…

- Peter Bergen