Islam is a civilization that is fractured linguistically, ethnically, sectarian-wise, as ours is. What bin Laden has done, though, is to identify a number of issues that are tangible and visceral for Muslims. His indictment list of Western support for… — Michael Scheuer Copy Share Image
Any strong Muslim regime that threatens Israel, and we did. He said the Americans only want oil, and, of course, Iraq has the second-largest reserves. And he said that we will always replace God's law with manmade law. And finally… — Michael Scheuer Copy Share Image
Iraq, for the first time, gives al Qaeda and its allies contiguous safe-haven territory to train and launch attacks into the Levant. First into… — Michael Scheuer Copy Share Image
Well, there are certain pockets of improvement. The one that I think is most important is that state and local law enforcement levels have… — Michael Scheuer Copy Share Image
You become an anti-Semite. And as powerful as the Israeli lobby is, the Saudi lobby is just as powerful. In fact, the Saudis probably… — Michael Scheuer Copy Share Image
Without the connotation good or bad, bin Laden's a great man in the sense that he's influenced the course of history. — Michael Scheuer Copy Share Image
I know these days it sounds a little odd, but American governments are very fearful of European reaction. They were afraid we would be… — Michael Scheuer Copy Share Image
The whole importance of Iraq is that we have now created two things. One, Iraq is in the Arab heartland in terms of an… — Michael Scheuer Copy Share Image
Bin Laden does reprehensible activities, and we should surely take care of that by killing him as soon as we can. But he's not… — Michael Scheuer Copy Share Image
The uniqueness of the unit was more or less that it was focused on a single individual. It was really the first time the… — Michael Scheuer Copy Share Image
I think it's very instructive to look at a man like Ramsey Ahmad Yousef, who almost brought down the World Trade Center in 1993.… — Michael Scheuer Copy Share Image
The treatise found that he was perfectly within his rights to use them. — Michael Scheuer Copy Share Image
Every mujahadeen who comes in from outside the country finds an environment where Arabic is spoken. So in that sense, it's a tremendous come-on… — Michael Scheuer Copy Share Image
We've gone thorough religious wars and civil wars. America has gone through slavery, we've all gone through two world wars, segregation. Ultimately it's been… — Michael Scheuer Copy Share Image
