Peter L. Bergen

Peter Bergen, CNN s terrorism analyst, with CNN since 1990. In 1983 he researched a documentary about Afghan refugees living in Pakistan for Britain s Channel 4. In March 1997 Osama bin Laden agreed to meet with him and he travelled to Afghanistan to produce the first television interview with him and members of his organisation. He has reported intensively on bin Laden for the last five years since conducting the first bin Laden TV interview in 1997. He is a winner of the Edward R Murrow Award for best documentary on foreign affairs. An American by birth, Peter Bergen grew up in UK and graduated from Oxford University in 1984. He lives in Washington, D.C.