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Peter Bergen

Peter Bergen is a member of the New America Foundation and author of the Holy War, Inc.: Inside the Secret World of Osama bin Laden. He is also an expert analyst on terrorism of CNN.

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“Our Ally, Our Problem”

by Peter Bergen

19 July 2005

As the shock caused yesterday by the attack in London still reverberates across the Atlantic, something has become evident: the United States must be more distrustful of British citizens than of sleeper cells in its own territory or the students coming from madrassas. Since September 11 there (…)

“The Madrassa Myth"

by Peter Bergen, Swati Pandey

28 June 2005

The importance of madrassas in graduating terrorists is one of the greatest assumptions of the war on terrorism. Statements by Colin Powell or Donald Rumsfeld backed this theory. Yet, while these schools may breed fundamentalists, they do not teach the technical skills to be a terrorist. Indeed (…)