Bin Laden was 200 miles away from the area where all of these drone strikes were taking out … - Peter Bergen

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Cunning is neither the consequence of sense, nor does it give sense. A proof that it is not sense, is that cunning people never imagine that others can see through them. It is the consequence of weakness.

Peter Bergen

Bin Laden was 200 miles away from the area where all of these drone strikes were taking out his key leaders in al-Qaida. He was able to indulge in his hobbies. . . He was making occasional video tapes and audio tapes for release to the wider world.

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The terrorists who have succeeded in carrying out spectacular attacks against Western targets in the past have been college-educated, technically proficient men who are capable of manufacturing and deploying chemical, radiological, and biological weapons. Al Qaeda attracts the kind of highly educated men who one day might be able to pull off such an attack.

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

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

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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.

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