STREAMING LIVE HERE AND ON C-SPAN 2: Al Qaeda 3.0: Bergen and the bin Laden Watchers

Four years ago, Osama bin Laden chronicler and CNN and New America Foundation terrorism expert PETER BERGEN, The Torture Papers: The Road to Abu Ghraib author and NYU Center on Law and Security Director KAREN GREENBERG, and I organized a day long mega-meeting of the world's best and brightest al Qaeda watchers. "Al Qaeda 2.0" (edited volume from conference here) assembled Western and Non-Western journalists including Yosri Fouda, Hamid Mir, Rohan Gunaratna and others who had interviewed the chiefs of al Qaeda or those who had masterminded the 9/11 terrorist attacks -- and those trying to catch them like Richard Clarke and Michael Scheuer. I am really pleased to say that populist writer and opinion leader Abdel Bari Atwan will be with us in this conference this year. Four years ago, the U.S. government would not allow him a... [read full story]