Peter Bergen has a unique collection, not stamps or coins or baseball cards but something altogether more lurid: a comprehensive trove detailing the rise of al-Qaeda.
Bergen, 63, a journalist who has covered national security for CNN since the 1990s, produced the network’s 1997 interview with Osama bin Laden — bin Laden’s first television interview — and has been one of the foremost chroniclers of the U.S. war on terror.