University of Virginia issued the following announcement on Aug. 6
Ten years after 9/11, U.S. forces finally caught up with Osama bin Laden, mastermind of the deadliest attacks on American soil, killing him in a raid on the Pakistani compound that housed him and his family.
The moment punctuated America’s journey through the trauma of 9/11, but it was anything but a conclusion. Conflict spurred by the attacks continued through a second decade – springing back into headlines even today, as the Biden administration moves to end major involvement in Afghanistan and Iraq.
For CNN national security analyst Peter Bergen, bin Laden’s death left important questions unanswered.
How did a privileged, soft-spoken young man transform into a global leader of terror intent on waging war on America and killing thousands of people? How and why did the world miss or ignore so many warning signs about bin Laden’s growing influence and threat? How is bin Laden’s legacy inspiring his ideological heirs today in ways that will extend violence?
Bergen, who produced the first television interview of bin Laden in 1997, this month published “The Rise and Fall of Osama bin Laden” (Simon & Schuster), a biography of the terror leader that combines information gleaned from more than 20 years of Bergen’s journalism with hundreds of interviews and thousands of pages of government and personal bin Laden documents that became available only after his death.
Original source can be found here.
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