I think it's very instructive to look at a man like Ramsey Ahmad Yousef, who almost brought down the World Trade Center… — 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… — 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… — Michael Scheuer Copy Share Image
We now have some years of very reliable polling by Western firms in the Islamic world, in multiple Islamic countries. And invariably,… — Michael Scheuer Copy Share Image
The second part of that war was that Muslims came from all over the country to Pakistan, and they met each other.… — Michael Scheuer Copy Share Image
I've said before: If Osama bin Laden was a Christian, Iraq was the Christmas present he always wanted but never expected his… — Michael Scheuer Copy Share Image
The world is lousy with Arab princes. And if we could have got Osama bin Laden, and saved at some point down… — Michael Scheuer Copy Share Image
Initial incompetence is not a reason to be dismissive of capabilities. Al Qaeda itself was incompetent when it started as a terrorist… — Michael Scheuer Copy Share Image
He [Osama bin Laden] is clearly an odd combination of a 12th-century theologian and a 21st-century CEO. He runs an absolutely unique… — Michael Scheuer Copy Share Image
I think you can take the recent war in Lebanon as a very good example of how this plays. The Americans and… — Michael Scheuer Copy Share Image
And the fact that the Muslim world, over the course of a decade, rallied and defeated a superpower is an extraordinary symbol… — Michael Scheuer Copy Share Image
It's very clear from what he [Osama ben Laden] said, what his lieutenants have said, that America is not even their main… — Michael Scheuer Copy Share Image
I think the world is more perilous and America is basically undefended. For me the two touchstones after 9/11 for domestic security… — Michael Scheuer Copy Share Image
There is no way to avoid the reality that the American government in the past years has been the most spectacularly hypocrisy-driven… — Michael Scheuer Copy Share Image
The Western world doesn't really give enough credit to the importance in history of the Soviet invasion and the subsequent war in… — Michael Scheuer Copy Share Image
First of all, there's no separation of church and state in the Islamic world. They're one and the same. And so when… — 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