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...Taliban Trouble Re Peter Bergen's article on al-Qaeda and Osama bin Laden [July 14]: The U.S. and Europe should not assume that bin Laden is irrelevant or that al-Qaeda is no longer active. It is true that al-Qaeda has not managed to carry out any attacks in the West in the last few years. It is also a fact that al-Qaeda has carried out more than 50 suicide bombings in Pakistan. Al-Qaeda is taking full advantage of the weakness of Pakistan's new government to recruit, train and arm more jihadis. This will boost...
...Bergen is a fellow at the New America Foundation in Washington and the author of The Osama bin Laden I Know
...worst public housing projects, a massive, mud-colored, 300-unit building that was demolished in December 2007. Despite the fact that he is staking his political career on turning around the fortunes of a troubled city, Booker himself hails from a predominantly white, neighborhood in suburban Bergen County. His pedigree is glaringly elite: after graduating from Stanford, where he also took a master’s degree, Booker attended Oxford on a Rhodes scholarship before attending Yale for law school. In 2002, Booker made his first run for mayor of Newark, losing narrowly to a veteran machine politician who painted...
...Dance with Iran In "Rethinking Iran," Samantha Power asserted that Washington "supported" Osama bin Laden during the 1980s [Jan. 28]. Power repeated a canard that has been pushed by numerous conspiracy theorists. As terrorism expert Peter Bergen has stated, this is a "folk myth" without a shred of evidence to support it. The 9/11 commission came to similar conclusions and noted that the CIA viewed bin Laden and his so-called Arab Afghans as "militarily insignificant" in the war against the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan. It is unfortunate that a distinguished scholar like Power decided to repeat this urban legend...
...Dance with Iran In "Rethinking Iran," Samantha Power asserted that Washington "supported" Osama bin Laden during the 1980s [Jan. 28]. Power repeated a canard that has been pushed by numerous conspiracy theorists. As terrorism expert Peter Bergen has stated, this is a "folk myth" without a shred of evidence to support it. The 9/11 commission came to similar conclusions and noted that the CIA viewed bin Laden and his so-called Arab Afghans as "militarily insignificant" to the war against the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan. It is unfortunate that a distinguished scholar like Power decided to repeat this legend. James...