Osama Bin Laden Scheuer Michael former head of CIAs Osama Bin Laden Unit
Osama Bin Laden Scheuer Michael former head of CIAs Osama Bin Laden Unit 9/11 almost instantaneously remade American politics and foreign policy. But despite its monumental impact--and a deluge of…
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Osama Bin Laden Scheuer Michael former head of CIAs Osama Bin Laden Unit
9/11 almost instantaneously remade American politics and foreign policy. But despite its monumental impact--and a deluge of books about al-Qaeda and Islamist terrorism--no one has written a serious assessment of the man who planned it, Osama bin Laden. The wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, the Patriot Act, water boarding and Guantanamo are examples of its profound and far-reaching effects.
These accounts, Michael Scheuer strongly believes, have contributed to a widespread and dangerous denial of his continuing significance and power.In this book, Scheuer provides a much-needed corrective--a hard-headed, closely reasoned portrait of bin Laden, showing him to be a figure of remarkable leadership skills, strategic genius, and considerable rhetorical Available biographies depict bin Laden as an historical figure, the mastermind behind 9/11, but no longer relevant to the world it created.