Peter Bergen
Peter Bergen
Peter Bergenis an American journalist, author, documentary producer, professor, think tank executive and CNN's national security analyst. Bergen has written or edited seven books: Holy War, Inc.: Inside the Secret World of Osama bin Laden, The Osama bin Laden I Know, The Longest War: The Enduring Conflict Between America and al-Qaeda, Manhunt: The Ten-Year Search for Bin Laden From 9/11 to Abbottabad, Talibanistan: Negotiating the Borders Between Terror, Politics, and Religion, Drone Wars: Transforming Conflict, Law, and Policy, and United...
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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.
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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.
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In Islamist jurisprudence you warn enemies before you attack them. It is typical behavior.
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The purported will states, 'Attack them on the sea. Attack them on the land. Attack them everywhere. Attack their economy,'
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Even by the standards of 1970s Saudi Arabia, it was a little unusual.
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There's overwhelming evidence bin Laden was behind the attacks of September 11. If the family chooses not to believe that, that's just how families operate.
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We're paying some kind of 'fear premium' for the price of oil right now.
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At night, temperatures here fall below the freezing point.
This is not rhetoric. This is for real.
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After all, the chain of custody of these tapes is the one way to find bin Laden. He obviously feels secure enough that he can release a number of these tapes.
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The most obvious meaning of the tape is that bin Laden is still alive.
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Saddam Hussein was put on notice that he can't do those type of things.
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One meeting does not make a conspiracy. Saddam Hussein does not engage in these types of acts.
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It's extraordinary that the chain of custody of these tapes has not been traced back. After all, they're releasing these tapes very frequently, on average once every six weeks, yet it seems that American intelligence agencies or other intelligence agencies are not capable of tracing back the source of these tapes.