Somalia is not new territory for al Qaeda, according to CNN's terrorism analyst Peter Bergen.
"Al Qaeda was running training camps in Somalia in the early and mid-1990s," he said. "If this is now coming back, this is something that al Qaeda has already done and it's worrisome for the future...
Look, it took the Israelis 15 years to find Eichmann," says Peter Bergen, a journalist, terrorism expert and one of the few westerners to have actually met Bin Laden - he interviewed him in 1997. His personal guess is that the Saudi construction heir ...
Nor, as voiced by the author and al Qaeda expert Peter Bergen, and others, does torture produce valuable information. While the practices employed by the captors at Guantanamo Bay may not be as severe as the Inquisition's, they were as wrong and an ...
“Mudd, a careful, thoughtful CIA analyst and the deputy chief of the Agency's Counterterrorist Center, wrote the terrorism portion of Powell's speech,” CNN terrorism analyst and author Peter Bergen writes in a forthcoming book. ...
"This is part of a long pattern of Bin Laden criticizing American Presidents since Clinton - whose picture Al Qaeda used for target practice," said Peter Bergen, a terrorism expert. The top thug has been "bipartisan" in slamming America's Pakistan ...
CNN Security Analyst Peter Bergen says the tape "speaks for itself." "I think what's interesting about the tape is that it appears to be made several weeks ago. ... The bin Laden tape was not made to kind of upstage the Cairo speech. ...
The Al Qaeda videotape shows a small white dog tied up inside a glass cage. A milky gas slowly filters in. An Arab man with an Egyptian accent says: "Start counting the time." Nervous, the dog starts barking and then moaning. After flailing about for some minutes, it succumbs to the poisonous gas and stops moving.
Abdullah Ghulam Rasoul and Said Ali al-Shihri may be the two best arguments for why releasing detainees from Guantánamo Bay poses a real risk to America. Mr. Rasoul, who was transferred to Afghanistan in 2007 and then released by the Kabul government, is now the commander of operations for the Taliban in southern Afghanistan. Mr. Shihri, sent back to his native Saudi Arabia in 2007, is now a leader of Al Qaeda’s affiliate in Yemen.
“This is the key to moving forward,” said Peter Bergen, a specialist on radical terrorism at the New America Foundation. Part spy-craft, part history research, the project is an attempt to re-create the successes in Iraq in 2007 and 2008, ...
"This is the key to moving forward," said Peter Bergen, a specialist on radical Islamic terrorism at the New America Foundation in Washington, DC "The easiest way to end an insurgency is to get people to stop being insurgents. ...
