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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
#Decision
#Opportunity
#Organization
#Who
In the past, Joint Special Operations Command, or JSOC, of which SEAL Team 6 is a key component, has only launched ground raids in Yemen when the lives of hostages held by al Qaeda seemed at risk.
- Peter Bergen
#Ground
#Key
#Past
#Special
#Team
Bannon should never have had a permanent seat on the NSC, as he is a political operative, and the NSC has traditionally been a place where American interests are considered rather than narrow Republican or Democratic interests.
- Peter Bergen
#American
#Place
#Political
#Republican
Americans generally regard themselves as belonging to an exceptional nation. And in terms of living in a religiously tolerant and enormously diverse country, Americans can certainly take some justified pride.
- Peter Bergen
#Country
#Living
#Nation
#Pride
#Take
Bin Laden was intelligent, well-informed, and low key. The people around him treated him with great deference, calling him 'sheikh,' a term of respect.
- Peter Bergen
#Great
#Intelligent
#Key
#People
#Respect
On November 28, 2016, Abdul Razak Ali Artan, an 18-year-old legal resident of the United States whose family was originally from Somalia, used a car to mow down a group of people at the Ohio State University.
- Peter Bergen
#Car
#Family
#Group
#Legal
#People
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
#Adult
#Back
#Born
#Family
#Life
My quest to meet Osama bin Laden began in North London early in 1997. In the Dollis Hill section, I contacted Khaled al-Fauwaz, the spokesman for a Saudi opposition group, the Advice and Reformation Committee, which bin Laden had founded.
- Peter Bergen
#Advice
#Committee
#Group
#Hill
#Meet
Seymour Hersh is one of the giants of investigative journalism.
- Peter Bergen
#Giants
#Investigative
#Journalism
The Japanese scored an important victory at Pearl Harbor, but the attack pulled the United States into World War II, and four years later, Japan was in ruins, utterly defeated.
- Peter Bergen
#Attack
#Important
#Victory
#War
#World
Pakistan's key leaders have succumbed to the assassin's bullet or bomb or the hangman's noose, and the country has seen four military coups since its birth in 1947. Yet the Pakistani polity has limped on.
- Peter Bergen
#Assassin
#Birth
#Country
#Key
#Pakistan
Ground operations are inherently very risky in Yemen. The two previous JSOC raids in Yemen were both in 2014.
- Peter Bergen
#Ground
#Operations
#Risky
#Two
#Yemen
A key flaw of the Obama administration's approach to Afghanistan has been constantly announcing proposed withdrawal dates for U.S. forces, which has enabled the Taliban to believe they can simply wait out the clock.
- Peter Bergen
#Afghanistan
#Believe
#Clock
#Key
#Wait
Islam is, to be sure, a big tent, and the one and a half billion Muslims in the world run the gamut from mystical, moderate, pacific Sufis to Salafists.
- Peter Bergen
#Big
#Half
#Islam
#Sure
#World
A decade and a half ago, the U.S. Air Force dropped massive 15,000-pound 'Daisy Cutter' bombs on the Tora Bora complex where Osama bin Laden was hiding in December 2001.
- Peter Bergen
#Air
#Complex
#Decade
#Force
#Half
In 2016, Washington and its coalition partners conducted more than 7,000 strikes in Iraq and Syria. And in Libya, the United States has conducted more than 350 air strikes since August as part of its military campaign against ISIS there.
- Peter Bergen
#Against
#Air
#Campaign
#More
#United
Bush administration officials, of course, deny that they didn't take the threat urgently enough, but there is no debating that in their public utterances, private meetings, and actions, the al Qaeda threat barely registered.
- Peter Bergen
#Administration
#Course
#Enough
#Meetings
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
#Enemies
#God
#Old
#Reason
When it comes to the greater Middle East, McMaster brings to the table his own deep knowledge of Iraq and Afghanistan, countries where he served for many years.
- Peter Bergen
#Afghanistan
#Deep
#Knowledge
#Own
#Table
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.
- Peter Bergen
#Audio
#Hobbies
#Key
#Miles
#World
ISIS is even at war with its most natural ally, al Qaeda in Syria.
- Peter Bergen
#Ally
#Even
#Natural
#Syria
#War
The dangers of TATP bombs can be seen in the case of Matthew Rugo and Curtis Jetton, 21-year-old roommates in Texas City, Texas. They didn't have any bomb-making training and were manufacturing explosives in 2006 from concentrated bleach when their concoction blew up, killing Rugo and injuring Jetton.
- Peter Bergen
#City
#Manufacturing
#Roommates
#Training
If the CIA and other U.S. intelligence agencies were private companies and were chronically unable to accomplish one of their key missions, their shareholders would have long ago revolted, fired their management, and their stock would be trading at values near zero.
- Peter Bergen
#Intelligence
#Long
#Management
#Values
The Second Amendment is, of course, very much part of the American fabric. But the intent of the founders was that the amendment protected the rights of citizens to bear arms in a militia for their collective self-defense.
- Peter Bergen
#Amendment
#American
#Fabric
#Rights
Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad belongs to the small Alawite sect and is therefore considered a heretic by many Sunnis; al-Assad runs a secular regime, and therefore he is considered by Sunni militants to be an apostate, and he is inflicting a total war on his Sunni population.
- Peter Bergen
#He
#Heretic
#Population
#Small
#War
The 9/11 attack itself played out around the world, with planning meetings in Malaysia, operatives taking flight lessons in the United States, coordination by plot leaders based in Hamburg, and money transfers from Dubai - activities overseen by al-Qaeda's senior command from secure bases in Afghanistan.
- Peter Bergen
#Dubai
#Meetings
#Money
#Planning
#World
Incompetence is a better explanation than conspiracy in most human activity.
- Peter Bergen
#Better
#Conspiracy
#Human
#Incompetence
McMaster, 54, is the smartest and most capable military officer of his generation, one who has not only led American victories on the battlefields of the 1991 Gulf War and of the Iraq War, but also holds a Ph.D. in history.
- Peter Bergen
#American
#Generation
#History
#War
#Who
As Michael Scheuer, who ran the C.I.A.'s bin Laden unit until 1999, has pointed out, if bin Laden believed in Christmas, the Iraq war would be his perfect present from Santa Claus. The 9/11 attacks and the subsequent war in Afghanistan severely damaged bin Laden's organization.
- Peter Bergen
#Christmas
#Organization
#Perfect
#War
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