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Peter Bergen
American
Journalist
Born:
Dec 12
,
1962
Afghanistan
Al
Al-Qaeda
American
Bin
War
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Incompetence is a better explanation than conspiracy in most human activity.
Peter Bergen
Better
Conspiracy
Incompetence
Most
Than
Human
Human Activity
Explanation
Activity
More than a decade and half after 9/11, U.S. military actions in countries such as Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan and several other Muslim nations are governed by the Authorization for the Use of Military Force (AUMF) that was passed in the days immediately after 9/11.
Peter Bergen
Half
Military
Other
Several
Immediately
Syria
Muslim
More
Countries
Days
Force
Passed
Governed
Iraq
Than
Decade
Authorization
Afghanistan
Nations
After
Use
Military Force
Actions
The Turkish government will never tolerate the creation of a Kurdish state.
Peter Bergen
Government
Will
Creation
State
Never
Kurdish
Turkish
Tolerate
We climbed the stairs to the third floor, where Osama bin Laden died early in the morning of May 2, 2011.
Peter Bergen
Morning
Climbed
Died
May
Where
Stairs
Bin
Floor
Early
Third
In 1999, NATO did impose a no-fly zone in Kosovo without seeking a U.N. resolution to carry out air strikes on Serbian forces.
Peter Bergen
NATO
Air
Strikes
Out
Carry
Seeking
Forces
Without
Kosovo
Impose
Did
Zone
Resolution
In Yemen, the United States conducted more drone strikes in 2016 than any year except 2012, the peak of the campaign in the country, according to data collected by New America.
Peter Bergen
Country
Year
Strikes
States
Collected
Data
More
Except
New
Campaign
Yemen
According
Than
America
Any
United
United States
Peak
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 Bergen
Man
Beard
Old
Final
Channels
Though
Footage
Remote
Himself
Another
His
Years
Just
Suburban
Aging
Flipping
Dad
Bin
Image
Watching
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 Bergen
You
Face
Leader
See
Could
Through
Fired
Had
He
Head
Stepped
Looked
Terrorist
Still
Bedroom
Bullet
Blood
Up
Ceiling
Where
Patterns
Seal
Navy
Bin
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 Bergen
War
Compound
Wives
His
Lines
End
Surrounded
Died
Front
Front Lines
Children
In The End
Suburban
Far
Holy
Bin
The centerpiece of the Bush administration's case for going to war in Iraq was Secretary of State Colin Powell's presentation to the U.N. Security Council on February 5, 2003, six weeks before the invasion.
Peter Bergen
War
Before
State
Colin
Secretary
Security
Security Council
Administration
Case
Invasion
February
Council
Weeks
Iraq
Going
Six
Bush
Presentation
The rise of ISIS starts with a Jordanian thug named Abu Musab al-Zarqawi who founded ISIS' parent organization, al Qaeda, in Iraq. What gave Zarqawi the opportunity to create al Qaeda in Iraq? It was, of course, George W. Bush's decision to invade Iraq in 2003.
Peter Bergen
Thug
Opportunity
Decision
Organization
Starts
Gave
Invade
Rise
Parent
Abu
Named
Course
George
George W
Iraq
Bush
Create
Who
Al
Al-Qaeda
Founded
The reason that Islamist militants can assert that jihad is necessary against the perceived enemies of Islam is that there is sufficient ammunition in the Quran to buttress their beliefs. The same could also, of course, be said for the Old Testament, which is full of scenes of violent death visited on the enemies of God.
Peter Bergen
Death
God
Enemies
Old
Islam
Jihad
Visited
Perceived
Scenes
Could
Also
Course
Said
Testament
Same
Which
Against
Full
Old Testament
Reason
Assert
Beliefs
Ammunition
Sufficient
Necessary
Violent
Hersh's account of the bin Laden raid is a farrago of nonsense that is contravened by a multitude of eyewitness accounts, inconvenient facts, and simple common sense.
Peter Bergen
Simple
Sense
Facts
Nonsense
Account
Accounts
Common
Common Sense
Bin
Raid
Multitude
Inconvenient
I was the only outsider to visit the Abbottabad compound where bin Laden lived before the Pakistani military demolished it.
Peter Bergen
Before
Military
Visit
Compound
Only
Outsider
Demolished
Where
Bin
Lived
Pakistani
Common sense would tell you that the idea that Saudi Arabia was paying for bin Laden's expenses while he was living in Abbottabad is simply risible. Bin Laden's principal goal was the overthrow of the Saudi royal family as a result of which his Saudi citizenship was revoked as far back as 1994.
Peter Bergen
Family
You
Result
Sense
Living
Back
Tell
Arabia
Would
Citizenship
He
Simply
Idea
Principal
His
Goal
Overthrow
Common
Expenses
Which
Common Sense
While
Far
Paying
Bin
Royal
Saudi
Royal Family
Saudi Arabia
ISIS may be a perversion of Islam, but Islamic it is, just as Christian beliefs about the sanctity of the unborn child explain why some Christian fundamentalists attack abortion clinics and doctors.
Peter Bergen
Abortion
Doctors
Islam
Sanctity
Christian
Some
Unborn
About
Unborn Child
Attack
Islamic
Clinics
Child
May
Just
Explain
Perversion
Beliefs
Why
Fundamentalists
Trump, of course, has been very wrong in the past about important issues such as President Barack Obama's place of birth and Mexican immigrants, but the Republican frontrunner is correct in saying that former Republican President George W. Bush did not keep the country safe during the 9/11 terrorist attacks.
Peter Bergen
Saying
Country
Important
Past
President
Birth
President George W. Bush
Correct
Has-Been
Immigrants
Obama
About
Attacks
Wrong
Safe
Important Issues
Course
Terrorist
Issues
George
Been
Trump
George W
George W. Bush
Mexican
Very
Did
In The Past
Place
Former
Republican
Barack
Bush
Keep
The inattention of the Bush administration to the threat from al Qaeda had results. Shortly before 9/11, Bush's attorney general, John Ashcroft, turned down FBI requests for some 400 additional counterterrorism personnel.
Peter Bergen
Before
Down
Additional
Administration
John
Threat
Some
General
Results
Had
Counterterrorism
Attorney
Attorney General
Bush
Bush Administration
Personnel
Turned
Requests
Al
Al-Qaeda
Trump's pronounced anti-immigrant stance is reminiscent of both Le Pen in France and Orban in Hungary, although he is far from alone in taking such positions in much of today's Republican Party.
Peter Bergen
Today
Alone
Hungary
Party
Positions
France
Pen
Both
He
Taking
Reminiscent
Although
Trump
Republican
Republican Party
Far
Much
Stance
What made al-Awlaki so influential is that, unlike a number of leaders of al Qaeda such as Osama bin Laden, he was a cleric, so he could present himself as a leading religious figure. Second, because al-Awlaki had spent much of his adult life in the States, he communicated with his followers in colloquial, accessible American English.
Peter Bergen
Life
Made
Unlike
Spent
States
Religious
Followers
Could
Adult
Adult Life
Had
He
Leaders
Leading
Himself
Because
Accessible
His
American
Influential
Much
Figure
English
Bin
Al
Al-Qaeda
Present
Second
Number
Anwar al-Awlaki was a U.S. citizen by virtue of his birth in Las Cruces, New Mexico, in 1971 while his Yemeni father was studying at New Mexico State University.
Peter Bergen
Father
Citizen
Birth
State
Virtue
State University
Studying
New
His
New Mexico
Mexico
While
University
Six years after al-Awlaki was born, his family moved back to Yemen, but he returned to the States for college and remained there for much of his adult life.
Peter Bergen
Life
Family
College
Back
States
Born
Remained
Adult
Adult Life
He
Returned
His
Years
Yemen
Six
Moved
After
Much
President Obama and a small team of senior national security officials were in the unusual position of acting as al-Awlaki's jury, judges, and de facto executioners.
Peter Bergen
National
President
President Obama
Security
Obama
Small
Facto
Unusual
Judges
Were
National Security
Officials
Senior
Jury
Acting
Team
Position
Think of ISIS as a pathogen that preys on weak hosts in the Muslim world. In fact, there is something of a political law: The weaker a Muslim state, the stronger will be the presence of ISIS or like-minded groups.
Peter Bergen
World
Law
Political
Will
Stronger
Think
State
Weak
Muslim
Weaker
Muslim World
Something
Fact
Hosts
In Fact
Groups
Presence
The E.U. is the latest of a series of multinational organizations set up after World War II to ensure that there would never again be a pan-European war and to create the conditions for a new European prosperity after the destruction wrought by the war against the Nazis. The E.U. has admirably succeeded at both.
Peter Bergen
War
World
Destruction
Prosperity
Latest
Ensure
Would
Both
Never
New
Wrought
Conditions
Up
After
Again
Against
Succeeded
Create
Organizations
European
Multinational
Series
World War
Set
World War II
Because Scotland and Northern Ireland want to remain part of the E.U., there is the quite real possibility that Scotland and even Northern Ireland might now choose to go their own way on membership within the E.U. and the 'United Kingdom' would suddenly effectively be only England and Wales.
Peter Bergen
Own
Way
Possibility
Membership
Would
Kingdom
Only
Remain
Part
Because
Within
Real
Go
Effectively
Ireland
Wales
Scotland
Northern
Quite
Northern Ireland
Want
Might
Choose
England
Even
Suddenly
Now
United
United Kingdom
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