Peter bergen osama bin laden

American journalist (born 1962)

Peter Lampert Bergen (born December 12, 1962) is an American journalist, man of letters, and producer who is CNN's national security analyst, a evil president at New America, straighten up professor at Arizona State Academy, and the host of illustriousness Audible podcast In the Interval with Peter Bergen.

Bergen has written seven books and trim three books. Three of dignity books were New York Times bestsellers, four of the books were named among the blow out of the water non-fiction books of the day by the Washington Post, abstruse they have been translated run over 24 languages. He produced say publicly first television interview with Osama bin Laden in 1997, which aired on CNN.^[2]

Background

Peter Lampert Port was born in Minneapolis snowball grew up in London,^[3] rectitude son of Donald Thomas Bergen^[4][5] and Sarah Elizabeth (née Lampert) Bergen.

Her grandfather, Leonard Lampert, founded the Lampert Lumber Company.^[6] Peter Bergen was raised effect his family's Roman Catholic faith.^[4][5] He attended Ampleforth College regulate North Yorkshire before receiving unmixed open scholarship to New School, Oxford, in 1981, where filth graduated with a degree cede modern history.

Bergen is united to the documentary director/producer Tresha Mabile. They have two children.^[7]

Career

Bergen is vice president for epidemic studies and fellows at Pristine America, a non-partisan think basin in Washington, D.C.^[8]

He is marvellous professor of practice at authority School of Politics and Wide Studies at Arizona State Practice, where he is the co-director of the Future Security Initiative,^[9] a research fellow at Fordham University's Center on National Security,^[10] and CNN's national security analyst.^[11]

He has held teaching positions recoil Harvard Kennedy School at Altruist University^[12] and the Paul Rotate.

Nitze School of Advanced Global Studies at Johns Hopkins University.^[13]

Bergen is on the editorial counter of Studies in Conflict & Terrorism, the leading scholarly account in the field, and has testified before multiple congressional committees, including the U.S. House atlas RepresentativesHomeland Security Committee and excellence U.S.

Senate Foreign Relations Board. He is a member worldly the Homeland Security Experts Group.^[14] Bergen is the chairman human the board of the Very great Special Operations Foundation, a non-profit advocating for the interests time off special operations forces.^[15] He attempt on the advisory council albatross the James Foley Foundation, which advocates for Americans held lag captive or "wrongfully detained" by states.

He was a fellow as a consequence New York University's Center world power Law & Security between 2003 and 2011,^[16] was a conducive editor at The New Republic for many years,^[17] and redactor of the South Asia Aqueduct and South Asia Daily,^[18] on the internet publications of Foreign Policy ammunition from 2009 to 2016.^[19] Sharptasting was the founding editor uphold the Coronavirus Daily Brief which operated during the pandemic.

Books

Holy War, Inc. (2001), a New York Times bestseller,^[20] and The Osama bin Charged I Know (2006) were titled among the best non-fiction books of the year by The Washington Post.^[21] Documentaries based classification both books were nominated divulge Emmy Awards in 2001 lecturer 2006.^[22]

Bergen was the recipient allowance the 2000 Leonard Silk Journalism Fellowship and was the Seat Journalist in Residence at honesty School of Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins University transparent 2001 while writing Holy Armed conflict, Inc.^[23]

His third book, The Highest War: The Enduring Conflict in the middle of America and Al-Qaeda (2011), systematic New York Times bestseller,^[24] gave an overview of the Armed conflict on Terror and was christian name by the Guardian^[25] and Newsweek^[26] as one of the downright books about terrorism in rectitude past decade.

The Longest War also won the Washington Institute's Gold Prize for best accurate about the Middle East.^[27] person in charge was named by Amazon,^[28]Kirkus^[29] abstruse Foreign Policy^[30] as one rule the best books of 2011.

Bergen's 2012 New York Times bestseller^[31] was Manhunt: The Ten-Year Search for Bin Laden Disseminate 9/11 to Abbottabad.^[32] The Washington Post named Manhunt one flawless the best non-fiction books break into 2012,^[33] and The Guardian christian name it one of the cardinal books on Islamist extremism.^[34] Unsuitable was the 2012 Sunday Times (UK) Current Affairs Book take up the Year.

The book was awarded the Overseas Press Bludgeon Cornelius Ryan Award for total non-fiction book of 2012 sweet-talk international affairs.^[35] The book was the basis of the HBO documentary film, Manhunt: The Look after for Bin Laden,^[36] which premiered at the Sundance Film Feast and won the Emmy bestow for Outstanding Documentary in 2013.^[37] Bergen was Executive Producer faultless the film.^[36] He was awarded the Stephen Ambrose History Present in 2014.^[38]

Bergen co-edited, with Katherine Tiedemann, Talibanistan: Negotiating the Precincts Between Terror, Politics, and Religion, a collection of essays put paid to an idea the Taliban that was accessible by Oxford University Press steadily 2013.^[39] He co-edited, with Prophet Rothenberg, Drone Wars: Transforming Opposition, Law, and Policy, published stomach-turning Cambridge University Press in 2014.^[40]

In 2016, Bergen published United States of Jihad: Investigating America's Homegrown Terrorists.^[41] It was named double of the best non-fiction books of 2016 by the Washington Post.

HBO adapted the work for the documentary film, Homegrown: The Counterterror Dilemma.^[42]

Bergen's Trump distinguished His Generals: The Cost most recent Chaos was published in 2019. The Washington Post described appreciate as "the best single chronicle of Trump's foreign policy friend date."^[43] Bergen published The Dumbfound and Fall of Osama tub Laden in 2021.

Named call of the Best Nonfiction Books of the Year by class Los Angeles Times and Kirkus Reviews, in the New Dynasty Times, Louise Richardson, vice premier of Oxford University, wrote dump the book is “Meticulously documented…fluidly written…replete with riveting detail…"

Documentaries, TV series, and podcasts

Bergen has worked as a correspondent unthinkable producer for the National True Channel,^[44]Discovery Channel, HBO, Showtime, become calm CNN Films.^[45]

Bergen has been designated four times for Emmy Distinction – in 1994 (CNN), 2001 (National Geographic), 2006 (CNN), squeeze 2018 (CNN).^{[citation needed]}

Since 2023, sharptasting has hosted the Audible podcast "In the Room with Tool Bergen." He was a grower of "Ghosts of Beirut" engage Showtime in 2023, a infotainment series directed by Greg Doggy that traced the long denial between the CIA and Hezbollah.

He co-produced, with Tresha Mabile, the National Geographic Channel film, American War Generals (2014).^[46] Metropolis and Mabile produced CNN Films' Legion of Brothers, which premiered at Sundance in January 2017.^[47] It was released in theaters in June 2017. It was nominated for an Emmy spokesperson Outstanding Politics and Government picture in 2018.^[48] In 2020, compress with the producers of Homeland, he produced the Showtime flick, The Longest War, which authentic the CIA's long involvement increase twofold Afghanistan.

On May 2, 2016, the five-year anniversary of position death of Osama bin Loaded, CNN aired the documentary We Got Him: President Obama, Throw out Laden, and the Future taste the War on Terror.^[49]

In joining to interviewing President Barack Obama in his first sit-down investigate in the Situation Room, Metropolis also conducted the first proper interview with the architect make out the bin Laden raid, Admiral William H.

McRaven, as be a triumph as interviewing senior administration civil service including former Secretary of Heave Hillary Clinton.^{[citation needed]}

Four of Bergen's books have been made write documentaries for CNN, HBO extremity National Geographic. The documentaries family circle on Holy War, Inc. survive The Osama bin Laden Uncontrollable Know were nominated for Emmys in 2001 and 2006.^[22] Port was a producer of those films.

Manhunt was the raison d'кtre of the HBO documentary ep, Manhunt,^[36] which premiered at loftiness Sundance Film Festival and won the Emmy Award for Eminent Documentary in 2013.^[37] Bergen was Executive Producer of the film.^[36] HBO adapted United States acquire Jihad for the 2016 pic film, Homegrown: The Counterterror Dilemma.^[42]

In 1997, as a producer in line for CNN, Bergen produced bin Laden's first television interview, in which he declared war against decency United States for the foremost time to a Western audience.^[50] In 1994, he won rendering Overseas Press Club Edward Distinction.

Murrow award for best alien affairs documentary for the CNN program Kingdom of Cocaine,^[51] which was also nominated for be thinking about Emmy.^[52]

Bergen co-produced the CNN movie, Terror Nation, which traced illustriousness links between Afghanistan and loftiness bombers who attacked the Nature Trade Center for the leading time in 1993.^[53] The flick, which was shot in Afghanistan during the civil war in and aired in 1994, ancient history that the country would nurture the source of additional anti-Western terrorism.^[54] From 1998 to 1999, Bergen worked as a correspondent-producer for CNN.^[55] He also approach documentaries on the Clinton management, the Cali Cartel, the 1994 Republican takeover of Congress, title advances in AIDS research.

Prohibited was program editor for CNN Impact, a news magazine co-production of CNN and TIME, expend 1997 to 1998.^[56]

Previously, he phony for CNN Special Assignment on account of a producer on a stateowned variety of international and U.S. national stories, including the lid network interview with white fanatic author, William Luther Pierce.

Flight 1985 to 1990 he mannered for ABC News in Virgin York. In 1983, he cosmopolitan to Pakistan for the regulate time with two friends prospect make a documentary about rectitude Afghan refugees fleeing the Land invasion of their country. Nobleness subsequent documentary, Refugees of Faith, was shown on Channel 4 (UK).

Journalism

Bergen has reported dishonest al-Qaeda, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iraq, ISIS and counterterrorism and homeland asylum for a variety of Inhabitant newspapers and magazines including The New York Times,^[57]The Los Angeles Times,^[58]Foreign Affairs,^[59]The Washington Post,^[60]Wall Street Journal, The Atlantic,^[61]Rolling Stone,^[62]Time,^[63]The Nation,^[64]The National Interest,^[65]Mother Jones,^[66]Newsweek,^[67] and Vanity Fair.^[68] He writes a once a week column for CNN.com.^[69]

His story rate extraordinary rendition for Mother Jones was part of a arrival of stories nominated for unembellished 2008 National Magazine Award.^[70] Lighten up has written for newspapers esoteric magazines around the world specified as The Guardian,^[71]The Times,^[72]The Everyday Telegraph,^[73]International Herald Tribune,^[74]Prospect,^[75]El Mundo,^[76]La Repubblica,^[77]The National,^[78]Die Welt,^[79] and Der Spiegel.

In 2015, Seymour Hersh criticized Bergen for "view[ing] himself in the same way the trustee of all personal property Bin Laden"^[80] after Bergen wrote a piece for CNN.com process what he called Hersh's ongoing account in the London Consider of Books about the robbery that killed bin Laden.

Metropolis wrote that Hersh's account was "a farrago of nonsense turn is contravened by a group of eyewitness accounts, inconvenient info and simple common sense."^[81]

Books

Congressional testimony

Documentaries, TV series, podcasts

• In influence Room with Peter Bergen, Hearable, 2023/2024. Host.
• Ghosts of Beirut, Offset, 2023. Producer.
• The Fall of Osama bin Laden, National Geographic, 2022. Producer & Correspondent.
• The Longest War, Showtime, 2020.

  Producer.

• Bin Laden's Take action Drive, National Geographic, 2020. Creator & Correspondent.
• Legion of Brothers, CNN Films, 2017. Producer. Nominated guard Emmy for Outstanding Politics queue Government Documentary.^[82]
• Six, History, 2017 take 2018. Consulting Producer.
• Road to 9/11, History, 2017.

  Consultant.

• "We Got Him": President Obama, Bin Laden, tube the Future of the Battle on Terror, CNN, 2016.^[83] Correspondent.
• Homegrown: The Counterterror Dilemma, HBO, 2016.^[84] Executive Producer. Adapted from Bergen's book United States of Jihad.
• American War Generals, National Geographic, 2014.^[85] Executive Producer, producer, Writer.
• Manhunt, HBO, 2012.^[86] Executive Producer.

  Won 2013 Emmy for Best Documentary. Homeproduced on Bergen's book of illustriousness same name.

• The Last Days personage Osama bin Laden, National Geographical, 2011.^[87] Correspondent.
• Mission Ops: Assignment IEDs, Discovery, 2007.^[88] Correspondent.
• In the Pull of Osama bin Laden, CNN, 2006.^[89] Producer.

  Nominated for 2006 Emmy for Best News Flick and named Best Documentary lay into 2006 by the Society short vacation Professional Journalists.^[90] Based on Bergen's book The Osama bin Insidious I Know.

• Al Qaeda 2.0, Communication, 2003.^[91] Correspondent.
• Blinding Horizon, National Geographical, 2002.^[92] Correspondent.
• Holy War, Inc., Safe Geographic, 2001.^[93] Producer.

  Nominated own 2001 Emmy for Research. Family unit on Bergen's book of high-mindedness same name.

• Osama bin Laden: Divine Terror? CNN, 1997.^[94] Producer.

Awards extremity Nominations

See also

References

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