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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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Outlook India, November 7, 2011
...thus provoking new waves of terror. The senior CIA analyst responsible for tracking Osama bin Laden from 1996, Michael Scheuer, warned right away and has repeated since that “the United States of America remains bin Laden’s only indispensable...
Green Left Weekly, November 7, 2011
...thus provoking new waves of terror. The senior CIA analyst responsible for tracking Osama bin Laden from 1996, Michael Scheuer, warned right away and has repeated since that “the United States of America remains bin Laden’s only indispensable...
ZNet, November 3, 2011
...thus provoking new waves of terror. The senior CIA analyst responsible for tracking Osama bin Laden from 1996, Michael Scheuer, warned right away and has repeated since that “the United States of America remains bin Laden’s only indispensable...
Eurasia Review, September 11, 2011
...in Robert Dreyfuss’s Devil’s Game: How the United States Helped Unleash Fundamentalist Islam as well as Michael Scheuer’s Imperial Hubris. To grasp the motivation behind suicide bombings beyond the caricatures we get in the press, see Robert...
MassLive, September 11, 2011
...and, most of all, our religious freedom,? said Hochreich. CIA officials and terrorism experts, such as hunter Michael Scheuer, have contended that?s not the case. In his 2004 book "Imperial Hubris," Scheuer pointed out American policies that al-Qeada...
Washington Post, September 11, 2011
...Islamic militancy, al-Qaeda and bin Laden. Imperial Hubris: Why the West Is Losing the War on Terror , by Michael Scheuer (2004). This sharp critique of the terrorist threat and the Bush administrations failed efforts to fight it was originally published...
National Post, August 9, 2011
...took notice of bin Laden's declaration, either among the public at large or within the government.As Michael Scheuer, the former head of the CIA's Bin Laden Unit, has written, these political grievances were intended to place al-Qaeda's fight within the...
COTO Report, September 11, 2011
...link fails, click here. Why I Resigned From the CIA2004-12-05, Los Angeles Timeshttp://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/opinion/la-oe-scheuer5dec05,1,471321… Michael Scheuer, a 22-year veteran of the CIA, wrote “Imperial Hubris: Why the West is...
COTO Report, September 11, 2011
...link fails, click here. Why I Resigned From the CIA2004-12-05, Los Angeles Timeshttp://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/opinion/la-oe-scheuer5dec05,1,471321… Michael Scheuer, a 22-year veteran of the CIA, wrote “Imperial Hubris: Why the West is...
Eurasia Review, September 10, 2011
...in Robert Dreyfuss’s Devil’s Game: How the United States Helped Unleash Fundamentalist Islam as well as Michael Scheuer’s Imperial Hubris. To grasp the motivation behind suicide bombings beyond the caricatures we get in the press, see Robert...
Sultan Knish, August 12, 2011
...it would find terrorism experts without these kinds of black marks, but this is a media operation where Michael Scheuer gets airtime. This is how the left keeps marginalizing itself on the debate. THE LATE GREAT DEBATEThe 2010 field is shaping up...
The Huffington Post | Full News Feed, May 3, 2011
...Keep up with live updates and other bin Laden coverage here . 1 of 7 "Osama bin Laden" by Michael Scheuer 1 of 8 First Slide Previous Slide @ Scheuer was the chief of the CIA's Osama bin Laden unit from 1996 to 1999, and he thoroughly describes bin...
Read Street, May 2, 2011
...former CIA officer Gary Bernsen, describes the early search for Bin Laden. -- "Osama Bin Laden," by Michael Scheuer, is a bio by another CIA expert...
The US Report, May 2, 2011
...an organization that continues to grow in a fractured yet widespread manner? Considering what I learned from reading Michael Scheuer’s book ‘Osama bin Laden,’ and considering the organizational skills Scheuer pointed out for the terrorist...