OBAMA’S WAR ON AL QAEDA AND ITS ALLIES” PETER

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The Steel Family Lecture

Date and Time: Tuesday, March 2, 2010 , 5:30 p.m.

Location: Fleishman Commons, Sanford Building (map)

Cost: Free

Parking: Science Drive Visitor Lot (map)

Bergen, a CNN national security analyst and New America Foundation fellow, will discuss the Obama’s strategic and tactical approach to the struggle against violent extremism in Afghanistan and Pakistand. He will outline the direction of Al Qadea and other terrorist groups in the region, based on his more than 20 years of experience as a correspondent in the Middle East. He is also the author of The Osama bin Laden I Know: an Oral History of the Al Qadea Leader.

Bergen will take questions from the audience after his remarks. There will be a reception to follow.

Peter Bergen is a print and television journalist; a senior fellow at the New America Foundation in Washington D.C. where he co-directs the Counterterrorism Strategy Initiative; a research fellow at New York University’s Center on Law andSecurity and CNN’s national security analyst. In 2008 he was an Adjunct Lecturer at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University and he has worked as an Adjunct Professor at the School of Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins University for several years.

The first Steel Family Lecture made possible by support from the Steel Family Endowment Fund, and sponsored by Triangle Center on Terrorism and Homeland Security and by the Sanford School as part of the Sanford Inaugural Series.

For more information about this special event, Nicole McWhirter, (919) 613-9301.

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