Peter L. Bergen
Related FRANK CARLUCCI Saudi Arabia was, until just a few years ago, probably one of the most safe countries on earth. And ... MICHAEL SCHEUER Saud bin Abd al-Aziz was the moon-faced, shortsighted, bespectacled son of the old founder of Saudi ... ROBERT LACEY JOHN O. BRENNAN We are living in a different world now. You can see it everywhere in international relations: It was... DANIEL YERGIN He was going from Pakistan to Europe, it's quite sure, to send the orders of bin Laden and the assoc... CLAUDE MONIQUET I was the only outsider to visit the Abbottabad compound where bin Laden lived before the Pakistani ... PETER L. BERGEN BARBARA BOXER WILLIAM J. CLINTON GAIL COLLINS Hersh's account of the bin Laden raid is a farrago of nonsense that is contravened by a multitud... PETER L. BERGEN My client believed he was a Yemeni working in Saudi Arabia. JASON BURNETT EVAN OSNOS SALMAN KHURSHID TOM COTTON PETER BERGEN The guy who finally pulled the trigger on Osama bin Laden is not patting himself on the back. He'... HOWARD E. WASDIN Everyone relates me to that man [Osama Bin Laden], and I have nothing to do with him. There are 400 ... WAFAH DUFOUR Saudi Arabia has stability. The social contract and the political contract between the king and the ... AL-WALEED BIN TALAL HANNAH SIMONE BARTON GELLMAN Actually, our current military presence in Saudi Arabia could be described as more than merely symbo... GENJOHN ABIZAID I'm much better informed than Mr. Clarke ever was about the nature of the intelligence that was ... MICHAEL SCHEUER JOE BIDEN But the key thing is that Iraq, while it's got very large oil reserves, has marginalized itself ... DANIEL YERGIN Saudi Arabia supplies much oil to the U.S. And it is the world's largest consumer of American we... STEPHEN KINZER JAMES HOWARD KUNSTLER The market was concentrating on Nigeria, Iran and the latest bin Laden tape. JAMES WILLIAMS The Western oil companies have really been kept out of Saudi Arabia for many, many years, and I thin... ARCHIE DUNHAM ROBERT FISK PETER BERGEN If China was like the moon, then arriving in Saudi Arabia was Mars. At least you can see the moon fr... BASMAH BINT SAUD SENATOR JOHN KERRY T. BOONE PICKENS He really didn't like that soldiers were in Saudi Arabia, the Holy Land. He said his target was the ... ABIGAIL PERKINS CONDOLEEZZA RICE HANNAH SIMONE The danger is that a terrorist like Osama bin Laden who is very motivated ... gets a bomb out of a p... GRAHAM ALLISON DAVID J. C. MACKAY EVAN BAYH AARON SWARTZ So when I arrived in Saudi Arabia in August of 2001, as there was no chemical, biological, or nuclea... BRIAN CASTNER ROBERT FISK That's the premise of the Saudi Arabians. He's holding the president's hand with one. In... ED MARKEY HANNAH SIMONE One letter to bin Laden reveals that al Qaeda was working on chemical and biological weapons in Iran... MICHAEL T. FLYNN JOHN WATERS For many, embracing the ideology of Osama bin Laden or ISIS allowed them to become the heroes of the... PETER L. BERGEN a declaration of war against Saudi Arabia. PRINCE ABDULLAH BRUCE STERLING PETER BERGEN [Weeks after this call, in January 2002, Lakhani travelled to the United States for the first of fou... HEMANT LAKHANI SALMAN KHURSHID He could have gone back to Saudi Arabia, but he's a madman, he wanted to prove that he's the hero. MUSTAFA MAHMOUD I'm not sure where I'm from! I was born in London. My father's from Ghana but lives in S... TAIYE SELASI FRANK CARLUCCI I'm telling you, you can't compare Saudi Arabia to other countries. AL-WALEED BIN TALAL DAVID IGNATIUS We know that al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula has some very dangerous, very important leaders who a... RICHARD ENGEL Cindy Sheehan Bride of Bin Laden. WALTER REED Cindy Sheehan = Bride of Bin Laden. WALTER REED NICHOLAS KRISTOF The 'Phoenix Sun' did a list of the unsexiest men in the world, and I made it to number one.... GILBERT GOTTFRIED NICHOLAS KRISTOF It's all about perception. Just the idea of an attack in Saudi Arabia is enough to make the market j... GLENN MURRAY There are two perspectives on the oil sands. You have companies that want to make it the next Saudi ... ANDREW NIKIFORUK JAMES BUCHAN And is Saudi Arabia a democracy, or Kuwait? JOSE VICENTE RANGEL TONY BLAIR Bin Laden was 200 miles away from the area where all of these drone strikes were taking out his key ... PETER L. BERGEN Someday we'll learn the whole story of why George W. Bush brushed off that intelligence briefing... FRANK RICH Can you get a democracy in Saudi Arabia? These people talk about theocracy, not democracy. So I thin... LEON CHARNEY Osama bin Laden fervently hoped that attacking the United States would create pressure on American l... PETER L. BERGEN AARON SWARTZ Bin Laden Determined to Strike in the US. AHMED RESSAM PETER T. KING ANNA WINTOUR It is not the first time that we are making security arrangements for the Republic Day celebrations.... BK GUPTA The way women today are treated in Saudi Arabia is a direct result of the education our children, bo... BASMAH BINT SAUD It's remarkable that we're not taxing fuel from Saudi Arabia while we're taxing fuel from Brazil. GAL LUFT FRANK LAUTENBERG Pakistan was deeply appreciative of the solidarity and support readily extended by the leadership of... TASNEEM ASLAM TOM TANCREDO BARNEY FRANK FRANK CARLUCCI BARBARA BOXER ROBERT FISK There's a love of rhetorical skill in the Muslim world. Osama bin Laden doesn't just go on t... P. J. O'ROURKE ELLIOTT ABRAMS My father was a Foreign Service officer, a diplomat and an Arabist who spent virtually all his caree... KAI BIRD The death penalty is inhumane... whether that person is in a jail or it's bin Laden. DANNY GLOVER During my time as CIA Director and Secretary of Defense, Hillary was a strong supporter of our effor... LEON PANETTA RICHARD DAWKINS ROGER STONE In 2003 there was basically a chain-link fence around this incredible facility. What's worrisome is ... MATTHEW SIMMONS ELVIS MITCHELL It doesn't have to be a mountain you have to be climbing. I hope to change people's opinion ... RAHA MOHARRAK The rules only applied toCAMERON STRACHER PETER BERGEN The reality is that we will be reading Miranda rights to the corpse of Osama bin Laden. He will neve... ERIC HOLDER
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I think the real target of al-Qaeda is Saudi Arabia by the way. They hate us and we're a vehicle... 
We know from the material that was recovered from the bin Laden compound that bin Laden was looking ... 
The Saudi government's denial of basic rights to women is not only wrong, it hurts Saudi Arabia&... 
Saddam Hussein didn't kill 3,100 people on Sept. 11. Osama bin Laden did, and as far as we know ... 
I kind of think that if you show conspiracy theorists a photo of the dead Bin Laden they will come u... 
There was a docudrama that was made, called 'The Death Of A Princess,' which was about a tru... 
Saudi Arabia is one of India's most valued strategic partners. 
Information obtained from detainees at Guantanamo has been described by the CIA as 'the lead inf... 
Bin Laden had come to the delusional conclusion that the United States was as weak as the Soviet Uni... 
As a girl growing up in Cyprus, Saudi Arabia and then India, the idea of cracking the industry in Am... 
The government of Sudan, employing a back channel direct from its president to the Central Intellige... 
You want to know whether we're better off? I've got a little bumper sticker for you: Osama b... 
Saudi Arabia is, of course, the keystone of OPEC. Saudi Arabia has had the distinction of remaining ... 
To look for bin Laden now is as useful as detaining nuclear scientists after the creation of the ato... 
There's overwhelming evidence bin Laden was behind the attacks of September 11. If the family choose... 
When Bush had an opportunity to capture or kill bin Laden, he took his focus off of him, outsourced ... 
There's no question that tar sands in Canada are probably the largest source of oil available to... 
I believe the title was 'Bin Laden Determined To Attack Inside the United States.' 
I move countries every three or four years. I was born in London, and we lived in Canada. Then we li... 
When the Industrial Revolution started, the amount of carbon sitting underneath Britain in the form ... 
that touch internally within Saudi Arabia. 
With the death of bin Laden, it's finally time for Congress to bring back the pre-9-11 legal nor... 
I don't know what happens if they get bin Laden. I'm much more interested in what happens if... 
I imagine Johnny Mathis hates Bin Laden as much as I do, but could Johnny agree Bin Laden had a bett... 
People in the Pentagon had colleagues killed and maimed by bin Laden. They're trying to find bin... 
Bin Laden was intelligent, well-informed, and low key. The people around him treated him with great ... 
India considers Saudi Arabia a center of stability in the region. The security and stability of the ... 
So, I think even in Saudi Arabia there is movement. And we have to remember that over the years they... 
Saudi Arabia is a frightened monarchy. It's beset by Sunni extremists from the Islamic State and... 
In effect, Saudi Arabia legitimizes fundamentalism, religious discrimination, intolerance and the op... 
Saudi Arabia has supported Wahhabi madrasas in poor countries in Africa and Asia, exporting extremis... 
Saudi Arabia is a puritanical state that claims a monopoly of wisdom and virtue. 
The attacks bear all the hallmarks of bin Laden 
We must erase bin Laden's ugly legacy, not extend it: by ending the Patriot Act's erosion of... 
As far as Iraq, the important thing is that the Taliban is gone in Afghanistan, three-quarters of th... 
The notion that a contemporary woman must look mannish in order to be taken seriously as a seeker of... 
All further relations with Saudi Arabia must be entirely contingent on the kingdom's progress cracki... 
We have to fight radical Islam wherever it exists. It's in Afghanistan, it's in Saudi Arabia... 
But here too it should be noted that the President's approach was to first ask the repressive an... 
It is in Saudi Arabia's best interest to allow women to fully participate in its society, and th... 
I don't know what happens if they get bin Laden. I'm much more interested in what happens if they do... 
Turkey's solidarity with Hamas is not, of course, based on Arab nationalism, which as a non-Arab... 
George Bush is a catastrophe for the world. And a dream for Bin Laden. 
As someone who cares about human rights, I am deeply dismayed to learn that Mr. McCain's charity... 
It's an oddity that will be avoided by millions of people, this new 'Pinocchio.' Osama b... 
The past is malleable and flexible, changing as our recollection interprets and re-explains what has... 
Self-acceptance has been a blessed by-product of middle age. 
Were women meant to do everything-work and have babies? 
Maybe if people are getting worn out with reality shows, which they don't seem to be, comedies will ... 
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She left feeling dirty, and on the bus ride home she knew that what her uncles told her had come tru... 
There is no necessary connection between the desire to lead and the ability to lead, and even less t... 
An editor is an accomplice, looking in from the outside. That objective view is essential. We don... 
There is no necessary connection between the desire to lead and the ability to lead, and even less t... 