Peter Bergen is a British-American print and television journalist, author, and CNN's national security analyst. Bergen produced the first television interview with Osama Bin Laden in 1997. The interview, which aired on CNN, marked the first time that bin Laden declared war against the United States to a Western audience. Bergen has written three books: Holy War, Inc., The Osama bin Laden I Know, and The Longest War: The Enduring Conflict Between America and al-Qaeda . Bergen was born in Minneapolis but grew up in London. He attended Ampleforth College in North Yorkshire before receiving an... Open Scholarship to New College, Oxford, in 1981 where he earned an M.A. in Modern History. Bergen is the director of the National Security Studies Program at the New America Foundation, a non-partisan think tank in Washington, DC. He is also a research fellow at New York University's Center on Law and Security and CNN's national security analyst. In 2008 he was an adjunct lecturer at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University, and an adjunct professor at the Paul H.
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