Peter Bergen Quotes About Al Qaeda

• 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.

  Peter Bergen

  Past, College, Men

• At one point people in al Qaeda were actually drawing monthly paychecks when they were based in Sudan.

  Peter Bergen

  Drawing, People, Als

• If you don't understand what al Qaeda was trying to do on 9/11, if you don't have a sense of who Osama bin Laden is as a person, if you don't have a sense of what al Qaeda, the organization, was on 9/11, 9/11 appears to be more or less inexplicable.

  Peter Bergen

  Organization, Trying, Als

  Source: www.pbs.org

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