Osama Bin Laden by CIA Expert Michael Scheuer

[nayjevin]

Michael Scheuer was foreign policy advisor to Ron Paul in 2008 and former CIA Bin Laden analyst.

His newest book is Osama Bin Laden and you can get it through his official website:
http://www.non-intervention.com

Also on Amazon (I earn a percentage with this link):
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/01...17145&creative=399349&creativeASIN=0199738661

Scheuer, chief of the CIA’s bin Laden unit from 1996 to 1999 and a consultant to that unit until 2004, delivers an unnerving profile of the al-Qaeda leader. Unnerving not just because it lays out bin Laden’s genius in luring the U.S. into a financially ruinous “war on terrorism” but also because it shows a “pious, brave, intelligent, charismatic” man fully capable of leading an insurgent Muslim force against the West, a profile at odds with the more fanatical, marginalized figure often portrayed by mainstream media. Scheuer tracks bin Laden’s life from his Saudi childhood as the son of a remote but revered and very wealthy contractor all the way to his place as one of the pivotal political figures of our time. More to the point, as he has in previous books (Marching toward Hell, 2008), Scheuer argues that bin Laden’s success owes as much to America’s ineptness in the Mideast as it does to bin Laden himself, a sentiment that should warn policymakers and citizens alike. --Alan Moores

This propulsive biography is not bin Laden for beginners, but its central point is clear. Scheuer (Imperial Hubris), chief of the CIA's Osama bin Laden unit from 1996 to 1999, argues that the West chronically underestimates bin Laden's "piety, generosity, personal bravery, strategic ability, charisma and patience." In creating a cartoonish enemy, the U.S. has "mindlessly" played into bin Laden's plans to provoke a war on Muslim soil to catalyze a jihad to "obliterate America from within, by making it economically weak, until its markets collapse." The depiction of bin Laden's evolution from devout student to militant leader is deeply detailed and dense, and readers unable to keep up with a dissection of Islam's diverse creeds and doctrines will feel overwhelmed at times, but Scheuer's project is lucid and important. Bin Laden "anticipated a war of attrition that might last decades" and has planned ahead. He has cultivated a multigenerational cadre of between 5,000 and 7,000 loyal warriors, many from the educated upper classes. The conflict with al-Qaeda will, by bin Laden's design, likely be multigenerational, and Scheuer takes a crucial step in revealing how the West keeps itself vulnerable by persisting in demonizing rather than understanding its formidable opponent.

 

[HOLLYWOOD]

Ron always said OBL was in Pakistan... RON RIGHT AGAIN.

Thanks Michael Scheuer!

 

[nayjevin]

Anxious for Mike's next article.

 

[nayjevin]

Here's a search of Michael Scheuer's articles on Osama Bin Laden

 

[Romulus]

I'm waiting for his statement on the supposed death of OBL

 

[tropicangela]

double post

 

[tropicangela]

Former CIA chief on death of Osama bin Laden

LEIGH SALES: Does that mean that you wouldn't foresee an end to the war in Afghanistan anytime soon?

MICHAEL SCHEUER: Well I would hope so, maam. I think that we have advertised - we in the United States have advertised that the war in Afghanistan was meant to destroy Osama bin Laden. That's done. Obviously we're losing that war, so this may well be a good time to pull up stakes and get out. There's no guts - there's no determination here amongst our leaders to win that war. They don't have enough troops to win that war. And so, this may be a good excuse for them to get out of there.

http://www.abc.net.au/7.30/content/2011/s3205794.htm

 

[echebota]

here is Michael Scheuer's opiniojn. Nothing surprising. He does not question the fact of death and just explains tha Pakistan's role in it.

http://english.capital.gr/News.asp?id=1183902

 

[tropicangela]

photos of the "mansion."

http://abcnews.go.com/International/slideshow/photos-inside-osama-bin-laden-kill-zone-13508190

 

[Pericles]

Ding dong, the witch is dead, now bring the troops home. It is an opportunity for us to say that we got our revenge now we will leave you alone if you leave us alone.

 

[undergroundrr]

Those pictures look AMAZINGLY like the compound at the end of The Kite Runner.

 

[A Son of Liberty]

ding dong, the witch is dead, now bring the troops home. It is an opportunity for us to say that we got our revenge now we will leave you alone if you leave us alone.

this, this, a thousand times this!

 

[vita3]

Bring 'Em home.

 

[Wicklowwolf]

Bin Laden has been dead for years.

 

[tropicangela]

photos of the "mansion."

http://abcnews.go.com/International/slideshow/photos-inside-osama-bin-laden-kill-zone-13508190

The Slippery Story of the bin Laden Kill

 

[A Son of Liberty]

Alex Jones is the only talk radio host I can listen to anymore.

That being said, I would be thoroughly unsurprised if his next big expose is that his very own birth was a government cover-up conspiracy. He seems to me to be a genuine and apparently well-intentioned guy, but EVERYTHING is a super secret NWO lizard people conspiracy to him.

Sometimes things just happen.

 

[LibertyEagle]

At this point, we cannot prove it either way, so it's best if we use his proclaimed death to insist that the troops now be brought home.