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

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

- Peter Bergen

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

- 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

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

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

- 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