Sep 23

Danger Close | Annie Jacobsen

Today on the Danger Close Podcast, Jack is joined by Pulitzer Prize finalist and New York Times bestselling author Annie Jacobsen. Her latest book, BIOLOGICAL WAR, is the September 2026 Jack Carr Book Club selection. In this episode, they discuss biological warfare, how quickly a ... Show More

1h 1m

Sep 16

Danger Close | Ben Macintyre

In this episode of the Danger Close Podcast, I sit down with Ben Macintyre to discuss his latest book, REDWOOD, a true Cold War story of Soviet, Iranian and British intrigue, espionage, and a double agent who changed the course of history. REDWOOD is on shelves now. Buy REDWOOD o ... Show More

1h 2m

Sep 11

Danger Close | Peter Bergen

In this special episode of the Danger Close Podcast, I sit down with national security expert and New York Times bestselling author Peter Bergen. We discuss Peter's interview with Osama bin Laden in Afghanistan in 1997, his visit to the compound where the leader of al-Qaeda met h ... Show More

1h 52m

Aug 2023

What's Next for Al Qaeda and The Islamic State | Peter Bergen

<p>Peter Bergen is one of the world's foremost experts on global jihadist movements like the Islamic State and Al Qaeda. He is a journalist who has covered this beat for decades, including the first television interview with Osama Bin Laden in 1997. Peter Bergen discusses where ... Show More

31m 2s

Nov 2022

The Bin Laden Files, Part 2/3: Take The Shot

As a new era of True Spies begins, Sophia di Martino joins the experts to reveal Osama bin Laden’s origins, methods and motivation. CIA operatives Gina Bennett and Tracy Walder join CNN’s Peter Bergen, the man who first interviewed Osama, to share the unvarnished truth about Bin ... Show More

45m 41s

Aug 2021

#258 — The Fall of Afghanistan

<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Sam Harris speaks with Peter Bergen about the US exit from Afghanistan, the resurgence of the Taliban, and his new book, "The Rise and Fall of Osama bin Laden." They discuss the Neo-isolationist consensus on the Right and Left, the legitimacy of ... Show More

46m 54s

Jun 2025

52. Bin Laden vs the CIA: Declaring Jihad (Ep 2)

How did a Saudi millionaire, seemingly more interested in a simple life than luxury, become the architect of a global terrorist organization? What personal and geopolitical forces converged to transform Osama bin Laden from a shy student into a war hero and the spiritual leader o ... Show More

53m 15s

Jun 2025

53. Bin Laden vs the CIA: The Great Escape (Ep 3)

"The walls of oppression and humiliation cannot be demolished except in a rain of bullets." These chilling words from Osama bin Laden's 1996 fatwa declared war on the United States. How did this Saudi Arabian millionaire transform into a global terrorist leader, openly inviting m ... Show More

59m 15s

Jun 2025

56. Bin Laden vs the CIA: Death in Pakistan (Ep 6)

His poetry celebrated a cosmic struggle of violence and glory, but his end was far from a medieval power play. Why did Osama bin Laden spend his final years in a secluded compound in Pakistan, attempting to manage a global terrorist organisation while living a surprisingly mundan ... Show More

1h 3m

Jun 2025

51. Bin Laden vs the CIA: The Origins of Al-Qaeda (Ep 1)

What kind of man was Osama bin Laden before he became the world's most wanted terrorist? How did his early life and radical beliefs shape the figure who would one day challenge the West? And what role did the Muslim Brotherhood play in his formative years? In this opening episode ... Show More

55m 52s

Jul 2020

384: Aimen Dean | Nine Lives of a Spy Inside Al-Qaeda Part Two

Aimen Dean (@AimenDean) was once one of al-Qaeda’s most respected bomb-makers who swore allegiance to Osama bin Laden himself. He eventually switched sides and spent eight years as an MI6 spy trying to take al-Qaeda down from the inside. He is the author of Nine Lives: My Time as ... Show More

1h 23m

May 2021

The killing of Osama Bin Laden

<p>It is 10 years since the al-Qaeda leader was killed. We look at the US special forces operation that finally tracked him down to a city in northern Pakistan, the 1979 siege of the Grand Mosque in Mecca, one of the events that shaped his world view; we talk to a Western-based j ... Show More

49m 33s

Jun 2025

55. Bin Laden vs the CIA: The Hunt for the World's Most Wanted (Ep 5)

A decade after 9/11, Osama bin Laden remained at large, a constant "running sore" for the US government. But how did a fleeting glimpse of a tall guy with a beard and the interrogation of a high-value detainee finally set the CIA on the right path? And what was the decision that ... Show More

56m 46s

Peter Bergen: The Rise and Fall of Osama...