Bergen is on the west coast of Norway in the fjord country.
Bergen : Well, look.
Bergen : I did.
Bergen : The CIA was asking a lot of the same questions about "Okay, what is the profile of Osama bin Laden?"
Bergen : He stopped using his cell phone.
Bergen : In a way, he became a prisoner.
Bergen : Qahtani is really an interesting case because he appears, from what we can tell, to be the first person to finger Abu Ahmed al-Kuwaiti as a reasonably significant
Bergen : I went into it thinking the answer was likely to be kinda gray, like a lot of things in life.
Bergen : That's an interesting question.
Bergen : What I say in the piece, in the Times, was, and I didn't actually fully develop this, but this is the first major American political figure, when I say major, really
Bergen : Indeed.
Bergen : Lawyerly.
Bergen : I would love to have-- I asked for an interview with him and didn't get one.
Bergen : They wouldn't talk to me, so that's really easy.
Bergen : Do you think Al Pacino will play him, or?
Bergen : I think we know what it meant to bin Laden.
Bergen : Yeah, I could whisper it, but I think it would be a waste of breath because I think no--.
Bergen : The way I would answer that, Christmas Day 2009.
Bergen : I'm sure we don't. There are 860,000 Americans with top secret clearances.
Bergen : On the question of informations publicly available, obviously I'm a journalist, so I'm in favor of as much publicly available information.
Bergen : I don't see the connection.
Bergen : Right.
Bergen : I say in the book.
Bergen : One of the interesting things about these documents is a question that I've always had about bin Laden, which is he claims he's a defender of Muslims, yet a lot of his victims
Bergen , they're building the game structure, huge 4x4x4 plexiglass cube for me so I can come and play with uh
Candice Bergen is Alice's mom.
of Bergen -Belsen.
Peter Bergen : Thank you everybody for coming.
It was actually Tim Bergen , who I never met-- but it was his books that got me into animal behavior.
And this is Bergen -Belsen.
heard actually was in Bergen in Norway where a tourist stops a little kid and says does it always rain here and the
would pick Peter Bergen .
it's not-- Bergen : I think this will be one of these things like the Cuban Missile Crisis that historians will be examining it as a classic case study about presidential decision-making.
growing up in Bergenfield with the music of Elvis Presley, The Ventures, and the Beatles.
Because when the Allies came to liberate Bergen -Belsen, they found so many dead bodies.
And when we came to Bergen -Belsen, the feeling of taking your children
My grandmother was liberated from Bergen -Belsen, was in Auschwitz, and my grandfather was in Dachau.
And these other children were from Bergen -Belsen who were on that during the trade.
And then we were included in a prisoner exchange from Bergen -Belsen.
But the second night on the train from Bergen -Belsen to Switzerland, my father died.
And we were told when we left Westerbork that Bergen -Belsen would be a better camp.
Now, Bergen -Belsen was really a horrible, a brutal, a cruel camp.
presenter: But it's very much about the teamwork-- Bergen : Yeah.
Bergen : Okay.
Well, from there we were in Bergen -Belsen almost one year, barely surviving.
I am a postdoc researcher at the Institute of Marine Research in Bergen , Norway.
Bergen : Panetta was very incensed by-- He was getting very angry about why they weren't
And so a few months later, we were sent to Bergen -Belsen, the next camp.
And so we came to Bergen -Belsen.
But anyway, we made it to the train leaving Bergen -Belsen, leaving that hell that day.