Peter Bergen

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Peter Bergen
Born 1962
Occupation journalist
Known for interviewed Osama bin Laden

Peter L. Bergen (1962-) is an analyst of terrorism. He is CNN's national security analyst, ands Senior Research Fellow, American Strategy Program and Co-Director, Counterterrorism Strategy Initiative, New America Foundation He is an adjunct professor at the School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University and a research fellow at the Center on Law & Security, New York University. He has interviewed Osama bin Laden and was among the first newsmen to cover al-Qaeda.[1]

In 2008 he was an Adjunct Lecturer at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University.

Born in Minneapolis and raised in London, he has a M.A. in Modern History from New College, Oxford University. He won an Open Scholarship when he went up to New College in 1981. Before that he attended Ampleforth.

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  1. Linda Frum. Interview, Maclean's magazine, 2006-01-30. Retrieved on 2021-07-17. “Peter Bergen is CNN’s terrorism analyst, and the author of the new book The Osama bin Laden I Know. Bergen interviewed bin Laden in 1997 and has followed his actions closely ever since.”