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WACC
Speaker
Series
Program
Michael
Scheuer
Author
of
"Osama
Bin
Laden"
and
Chief
of
the
bin
Laden
Unit,
Counterterrorism
Center
(1996
-
1999)
Date:
Thursday, April 28th, 2011
Location:
Hilton
Charlotte
Center
City
(222
E.
Third
St.)
General
Networking
&
Registration:
11:30
a.m.
–
12:00
p.m.
Lunch
&
Presentation:
12:00
–
1:30
p.m.
Cost:
$45 (WACC members); $60 (non members)
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ABOUT
THE
BOOK:
OSAMA
BIN
LADEN
9/11
instantaneously
remade
American
politics
and
foreign
policy.The
wars
in
Iraq
and
Afghanistan,
the
Patriot
Act,
water
boarding
and
Guantanamo
are
examples
of
its
profound
and
far-reaching
effects.
In
this
book,
Scheuer
provides
a
serious
assessment
of
the
man
who
planned
it,
Osama
bin
Laden.
The
bin
Laden
who
emerges
from
these
accounts
is
devout,
talented,
patient,
and
ruthless;
a
truly
formidable
and
implacable
enemy
of
the
West.
Shedding
light
on
his
development
as a
theologian,
media
manipulator,
and
paramilitary
commander,
Scheuer
makes
use
of
all
the
speeches
and
interviews
bin
Laden
has
given
as
well
as
lengthy
interviews,
testimony,
and
previously
untranslated
documents
written
by
those
who
grew
up
with
bin
Laden
in
Saudi
Arabia,
served
as
his
bodyguards
and
drivers,
and
fought
alongside
him
against
the
Soviets.
The
bin
Laden
who
emerges
from
these
accounts
is
devout,
talented,
patient,
and
ruthless;
in
other
words,
a
truly
formidable
and
implacable
enemy
of
the
West.
(Source
-
Oxford
University
Press)
BIOGRAPHY OF SPEAKER:
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 before his resignation from the CIA. Scheuer 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.
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