Testimony

Apr 12, 2013

Testified before Senate Foreign Relations Committee, “Al Qaeda, the Taliban, and Other Extremists Groups in Pakistan”

http://www.foreign.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/Bergen_testimony.pdf

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