Michael Scheuer

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Michael F. Scheuer is a 22-year Central Intelligence Agency veteran. 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 resigned from the CIA in 2004. He is currently a news analyst for CBS News, as well as a terrorism analyst for the Jamestown Foundation's online publication Global Terrorism Analysis.

Scheuer is now known to be the anonymous author of both Imperial Hubris: Why the West is Losing the War on Terror, and the earlier anonymous work, Through Our Enemies' Eyes: Osama bin Laden, Radical Islam, and the Future of America.

His new 2008 book is Marching Towards Hell: America and Islam After Iraq.

Although Scheuer was an analyst at the CIA, not a covert field operations officer, not much is known about his personal history. During a recent C-SPAN interview, he mentioned that he is a graduate of Canisius College. He also received a Ph.D. in British Empire - U.S.-Canada-U.K. Relations from the University of Manitoba. Scheuer currently makes radio and television appearances, and teaches a graduate-level course on Al-Qaeda at Georgetown University. He also participates in conferences on terrorism and national security issues.