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Peter Bergen in The Daily Progress | 'Face to Face with bin Laden'

September 12, 2008

Osama bin Laden remains at large seven years after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks -- and the United States is “incredibly unlikely” to capture or kill the al-Qaida mastermind anytime soon.

That was the assessment of Peter Bergen, a CNN terrorism analyst who interviewed bin Laden in 1997, in a speech Friday morning at the Miller Center of Public Affairs at the University of Virginia.

“We know he’s in the northwest border region [of Pakistan], which is like saying we know he’s somewhere in Virginia,” Bergen told the crowd of several hundred. “They’re roughly the same size.” LINK



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