Peter L. Bergen Quotes

• We climbed the stairs to the third floor, where Osama bin Laden died early in the morning of May 2, 2011.

  Peter L. Bergen

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• 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 suburban dad flipping though the channels with his remote.

  Peter L. Bergen

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  Tags in Image, Journalism, Journalist

• 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 L. Bergen

  Topics in Country, Life

  Tags in Time

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

  Peter L. Bergen

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• 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 had lived for the last half-decade of his life; the first, and only, journalist to do so.

  Peter L. Bergen

  Topics in Life

  Tags in Journalist

• 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, kind of thoughtful – lots of things that don’t fit with a mass murderer, which he is as well.

  Peter L. Bergen

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in People, Thoughtful

• 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 bin Laden’s head when the bullet fired by a U.S. Navy SEAL tore through the terrorist leader’s face.

  Peter L. Bergen

  Topics in Country

  Tags in Terrorist

• 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 L. Bergen

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  Tags in Action

• 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 is really bad, and that’s a good thing.

  Peter L. Bergen

  Topics in Death

  Tags in Time, Think

• Bin Laden was 200 miles away from the area where all of these drone strikes were taking out his key leaders, he was able to indulge in his hobbies… and he was making occasional video tapes and audio tapes to the wider world.

  Peter L. Bergen

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in World, Strike

• Bin Laden comes out of a business background – he studied public administration and economics at university, and he worked for his family company, which was obviously a rather successful enterprise.

  Peter L. Bergen

  Topics in Business

  Tags in Economics

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

  Peter L. Bergen

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in People, Actually

• 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.

  Peter L. Bergen

  Topics in Children

  Tags in War

Peter L. Bergen (13)

Birth:	12th December, 1962
Nationality:	American, British
Profession:	Analyst, Author, Broadcaster, Journalist

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