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Michael Scheuer is a twenty-plus-year CIA veteran. From 1996 to 1999, he served as the Chief of the bin Laden unit (aka Alec Station), the Osama bin Laden tracking unit at the Counterterrorism Center. He then worked as Special Adviser to the Chief of the bin Laden unit from September 2001 to November 2004. He resigned from the CIA in 2004. He is currently an Adjunct Professor of Security Studies at Georgetown University and a Senior Fellow at the Jamestown Foundation, writing regularly for its online publication Global Terrorism Analysis. He lives in Virginia with his wife and two children.

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Marching Toward Hell is now available in Trade Paperback
Feb 10, 2009
Marching Toward Hell will be released on February 10, 2009 in Trade Paperback
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Marching Toward Hell is now available in Trade Paperback
Feb 10, 2009
Marching Toward Hell will be released on February 10, 2009 in Trade Paperback
Dec 19, 2008
Marching Toward Hell is now available in eAudio
Nov 10, 2008
Marching Toward Hell will be released on November 10, 2008 in eAudio
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Marching Toward Hell is now available in eAudio
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Marching Toward Hell will be released on February 12, 2008 in Hardcover
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Marching Toward Hell is now available in Hardcover
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Marching Toward Hell will be released on February 12, 2008 in eBook
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Marching Toward Hell is now available in eBook
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Marching Toward Hell is now available in Compact Disk
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Lincoln Journal Star, March 25, 2013
...top recent titles was national bestseller Imperial Hubris: Why the West Is Losing the War on Terror by Michael Scheuer.  Ordering, warehousing, returns processing, and all other industry business and contracts will remain under the purview of Potomac...
Guardian.co.uk, December 15, 2012
...real-life Maya â were key to that operation, even before the 9/11 attacks. Last week, former CIA agent Michael Scheuer, who ran a unit hunting for bin Laden, revealed that he had deliberately selected a strongly female staff. "[Women analysts] seem to...
Channel4000, December 13, 2012
...analysts played a key role in the hunt for al Qaeda's leaders. The founder of that unit, Michael Scheuer, explains, "(Female analysts) seem to have an exceptional knack for detail, for seeing patterns and understanding relationships, and they also,...
CNN, December 13, 2012
...analysts played a key role in the hunt for al Qaeda's leaders. The founder of that unit, Michael Scheuer, explains, "(Female analysts) seem to have an exceptional knack for detail, for seeing patterns and understanding relationships, and they also,...
Washington Times, July 13, 2012
...to insiders, the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks eliminated much of the rivalry. I recall hearing former CIA analyst Michael Scheuer, who headed the CIA?s bin Laden unit, and former CIA field commander Gary Berntsen, who hunted bin Laden in Afghanistan, speak...
Woodbury Bulletin, June 28, 2012
...of Dillinger who made his famous escape from Little Bohemia. Originally published in 2011, “Osama Bin Laden,” by Michael Scheuer (Oxford University Press, $13.95, paper) has recently been reworked and reissued by Scheuer after Bin Laden was killed by...
Virgin Radio 96 Montreal, January 18, 2013
...play. I read ‘The Looming Tower,’ which is a great book. I also read ‘Osama bin Laden‘ by Michael Scheuer. Then I just had to create the character. I had to fill in the blanks of what the research couldn’t give me…because she is...
New Zealand Herald, January 17, 2013
...number of books about Bin Laden, including The Looming Tower by Lawrence Wright and Osama Bin Laden by Michael Scheuer. Chastain says she would have loved to meet the real Maya but that option has never been on the table, since Maya remains an active...
LewRockwell.com, January 14, 2013
...destruction of which the Founders would have favored and which they meant to facilitate by the 2nd Amendment. Michael Scheuer [] is the author of and Imperial Hubris and . He recently resigned after 22 years at the CIA. He served as chief of the CIA's...
Pakistan Today, January 13, 2013
...Laden. Everything that led to 9/11. And then what I found to be the most helpful book was Michael Scheuer’s book on Osama bin Laden. There was so much about him that I had no idea of. Anything particularly surprising? I was shocked by how generous...
Time, January 11, 2013
...Laden. Everything that led to 9/11. And then what I found to be the most helpful book was Michael Scheuer’s book on Osama bin Laden. There was so much about him that I had no idea of. Anything particularly surprising? I was shocked by how generous...
Time, January 11, 2013
...Laden. Everything that led to 9/11. And then what I found to be the most helpful book was Michael Scheuer’s book on Osama bin Laden. There was so much about him that I had no idea of. Anything particularly surprising? I was shocked by how generous...
Time, January 11, 2013
...Laden. Everything that led to 9/11. And then what I found to be the most helpful book was Michael Scheuer’s book on Osama bin Laden. There was so much about him that I had no idea of. Anything particularly surprising? I was shocked by how generous...