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Terrorists and Weapons of Mass Destruction: A History of Hype and the Possibility of a Dystopian Future SEPTEMBER 2026, VOLUME 19, ISSUE 9 Authors: PETER BERGEN Categories: COUNTERTERRORISMWEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION SHARE VIA: PDF Abstract: After 9/11, the Bush administration was preoccupied by the possibility of terrorists armed with weapons of mass destruction (WMD), so […]

Co-written with David Sterman. https://thesoufancenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/25-Years-After-911-The-Future-Of-The-Global-Jihadi-Movement.pdf

Media A CNN journalist spent years reporting on al-Qaeda. Now he’s handing over a massive archive. On the 25th anniversary of 9/11, Peter Bergen donated more than 150,000 pages of documents to Georgetown University. September 7, 2026 6 min By Scott Nover Peter Bergen has a unique collection, not stamps or coins or baseball cards […]

Friday marks the 25th anniversary of the attacks of September 11, 2001. Since 9/11, US presidents have expanded their power, step by step, to wage war anywhere, anytime, as they please. With Operation Epic Fury in Iran, President Donald Trump reached a new peak in the war-making powers claimed by the US commander in chief. […]

On Feb. 26, 1993, eight years before Sept. 11, Islamist terrorists drove a bomb-laden van into the garage of the World Trade Center in Lower Manhattan, aiming to bring down the twin towers. The terrorists killed six people, but their grand plan fizzled: The towers still stood. That attack sent me on a three-decade journey […]

Peter L. Bergen Britannica Editors July 22, 2026 •History The September 11 attacks were precipitated in large part because Osama bin Laden, the leader of the militant Islamic organization al-Qaeda, held naive beliefs about the United States in the run-up to the attacks. Abu Walid al-Masri, an Egyptian who was a bin Laden associate in […]

Why is it so hard for the U.S. to win wars? July 15, 20266:05 PM ET Heard on All Things Considered Greg Myre The U.S. has fought three major wars in the past quarter-century, in Iran, Iraq and Afghanistan. None has gone as planned. Transcript AILSA CHANG, HOST: The U.S. has been at war for […]

https://www1.wdr.de/mediathek/audio/zeitzeichen/audio-schuesse-auf-den-terrorfuersten-das-ende-von-bin-laden-100.html Schüsse auf den Terrorfürsten: Das Ende von bin LadenWDR Zeitzeichen 02.05.2026 14:52 Min. Verfügbar bis 02.05.2099 WDR 5Zehn Jahre dauert die Suche nach Osama bin Laden, Führer der Terrorgruppe al-Qaida. und Drahtzieher von 9/11. Am 2.5.2011 tötet ihn ein US-Kommando beim Sturm auf sein Versteck in Pakistan.In diesem Zeitzeichen erzählt Martin Herzog, wie die […]

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