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All this business about them being isolated or cut off is whistling past the graveyard
Al-Qaida core vigorous, organized Sep 09, 2007
It means their command and control over al-Qaida is probably stronger than we thought it was
Report: Bin Laden reclaiming al-Qaida Jul 05, 2006
We are being told by the president and others that al-Qaida attacked us because they despise who we are and what we think and how we live
Analysts see change in bin Laden's tone Dec 22, 2004
Their intention is to end the war as soon as they can, and to ratchet up the pain for the Americans until we get out of their region
Osama gets Islamic approval to nuke U.S. Nov 13, 2004
If people can still choose whether or not to fight the war on terror
Veteran CIA terror hunter quits over gag Nov 11, 2004
Michael F. Scheuer (born 1952) is a former CIA intelligence officer, American blogger, historian, foreign policy critic, and political analyst. He is currently an adjunct professor at Georgetown University's Center for Peace and Security Studies. In his 22-year career, he served as the Chief of the Bin Laden Issue Station (aka "Alec Station"), from 1996 to 1999, the Osama bin Laden tracking unit at the Counterterrorist Center. He then worked again as Special Advisor to the Chief of the bin Laden unit from September 2001 to November 2004.
Scheuer became a public figure after being outed as the anonymous author of the 2004 book Imperial Hubris, in which he criticized many of the United States' assumptions about Islamist insurgencies and particularly Osama bin Laden. He depicts bin Laden as a rational actor who is fighting to weaken the United States by weakening its economy, rather than merely combating and killing Americans. He challenges the common assumption that terrorism is the threat that the United States is facing in the modern era, arguing rather that Islamist insurgency (and not "terrorism") is the core of the conflict between the U.S. and Islamist forces, who in places such as Kashmir, Xinjiang, and Chechnya are "struggling not just for independence but against institutionalized barbarism." Osama bin Laden acknowledged the book in a 2007 statement, suggesting that it revealed "the reasons for your losing the war against us".
In February 2009, Scheuer was terminated from his position as a senior fellow of The Jamestown Foundation. Scheuer has written that he was fired by the organization for stating that "the current state of the U.S.-Israel relationship undermined U.S. national security."