Peter Bergen

If the southern Afghan province of Helmand were a country it would be the world's leading producer of opium and its derivative, heroin. More than half the world's heroin originates here--much of it destined for the veins of junkies living in Europe.

In June 2005, U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency officials and Afghan police raided the office of Sher Mohammed Akhundzada, the governor of Helmand, and found nine tons of opium in his office. He is no longer the governor.

I recall Peter Bergen, who knows as much about al-Qaeda as any US analyst, predicting that it would cease to exist within the next five years. ...

Joining Cooper are Dr. Sanjay Gupta, CNN's chief medical correspondent; CNN's national security analyst Peter Bergen; and CNN correspondent Michael Ware. ...

Former Vice President Dick Cheney said in an interview Friday that just-released CIA documents demonstrate the effectiveness of coercive interrogation techniques.

"My sort of overwhelming view is that the enhanced interrogation techniques were absolutely essential in saving American lives and preventing attacks on the Unites States," Cheney told FOX News Sunday. "I think they were directly responsible for the fact that for eight years we had no further direct attacks on the United States."

That is likely the way to go, said terrorism expert Peter Bergen, who doubts it is politically possible to send more US troops to Afghanistan - even if ... and more »

PETER BERGEN, CNN TERRORISM ANALYST: The kinds of information that was given up by Khalid Sheikh Mohammed after being interrogated were about various plots they had on the drawing board to attack the United States a second time. But most of these plots were not serious. ... Original Transcript

... or pose a “high risk” of attack in 40 percent of Afghanistan, according to Peter Bergen, a senior fellow at the Washington-based New America Foundation. ... and more »

Peter Bergen has taken issue with me on whether the danger of a "safe haven" for al Qaeda justifies an open-ended US commitment in Afghanistan, ...