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In February I secured permission to enter Osama bin Laden's compound in the northern Pakistani city of Abbottabad, where he was killed and where he had lived for the last half-decade of his life the first, and only, journalist to do so.

Peter Bergen

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Peter Bergen
Age: 61
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