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.