Peter Bergen

This article is about the journalist Peter Bergen. For the saxophonist see Peter van Bergen .

Peter Bergen (2007)

Peter L. Bergen (born December 12, 1962 in Minneapolis ) is a British - American journalist .

Bergen works as a terrorism expert at CNN . In 1997 he was one of the first western journalists to interview Osama bin Laden . In 2001 he wrote Holy War Inc. , in 2006 The Osama bin Laden I Know: An Oral History of al Qaeda's Leader , in which he lets bin Laden's friends tell about him.

He is also a regular at Vanity Fair and The New Republic .

background

Peter Bergen was born in Minneapolis and grew up in London . In 1984 he received at the University of Oxford the MA in Modern History .

Career

In his journalistic life, Bergen worked first for the American broadcaster ABC , then for CNN .

In August 2006, Bergens published an article on CNN about the CIA - bin Laden connection.

From 2003 to 2007 Bergen was an adjunct professor at the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins University ; In 2008 he was a lecturer at Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government .

Today, Bergen directs the New America Foundation's National Security Research Program at the think tank . He is also a fellow at the New York University School of Law's Center on Law and Security .

Prizes and awards

He has received numerous awards for his journalistic work, including the Edward R. Murrow Award from the Radio-Television Digital News Association in 1994.

Publications

Bergen is the co-author of a study published on July 20, 2009, entitled Guantanamo: Who Really 'Returned to the Battlefield'? appeared. In 2011 The Longest War was published about the US engagement in Afghanistan . The following are published in German:

• Holy War Inc. Osama bin Laden's terror network. Siedler, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-88680-752-5 (English: Holy War, Inc. Translated by Friedrich Griese).
• The Hunt for Osama Bin Laden: An Unveiling Tale . Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt , Munich 2012, ISBN 978-3-421-04551-5 (English: Manhunt . Translated by Helmut Dierlamm and others).
• United States of Jihad: Investigating America's Homegrown Terrorists . New York, NY: Crown Publishing Group, 2016.

Web links

Commons : Peter Bergen  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Literature by and about Peter Bergen in the catalog of the German National Library
• Biography on the website of Peter L. Bergen (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Max Rodenbeck, Peter L. Bergen: The Osama bin Laden I Know: An Oral History of al Qaeda's Leader. In: The New York review of books . 53, no. 4, (2006): 4, ISSN  0028-7504 .
2. ^ ^{A b} Peter L. Bergen: Holy War, Inc. Simon & Schuster, New York 2001, ISBN 0-7432-0502-2 . (German edition: Heiliger Krieg Inc.: Osama bin Laden's terror network. Siedler, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-88680-752-5 .)
3. ↑ Peter L. Bergen: Bin Laden, CIA left hogwash. On: CNN, August 24, 2006, accessed May 22, 2010
4. ↑ Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
5. ↑ http://www.lawandsecurity.org/about_fellows.cfm
6. ↑ Peter Bergen, Katherine Tiedemann: Guantanamo: Who Really 'Returned to the Battlefield'? ( Memento of the original from June 15, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. On: New America Foundation. July 20, 2009. 
7. ↑ Olaf Ihlau : Book about the killing of Osama Bin Laden: "We have him, we have him." In: sueddeutsche.de of August 7, 2012