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

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

- 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

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

- 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

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.

- Peter Bergen

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

- 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