My Q & A With Former CIA Bin Laden Unit Chief And Author Of "Osama Bin Laden," Michael Scheuer

Prior to the Navy SEALs killing America's Public Enemy Number 1, Osama bin Laden, I interviewed Michael Scheuer, the former CIA chief of the bin Laden unit and the author of a book on the al-Qaeda chief, called Osama bin Laden.

Although I don't totally agree with Mr. Scheuer's views, his book was interesting.

My interview appears in the latest issue of Counterterrorism magazine.

You can read my interview with Michael Scheuer below:

Ayman Al-Zawahiri Could Replace Bin Laden On FBI's Most Wanted List

Aliyah Shahid at The New York Daily News wrote an interesting piece on al-Qaida's number two, Ayman al-Zawahiri, and how he may replace the recently slain Osama bin Laden as the leader of the terrorist group, as well as replacing bin Laden on the FBI's Most Wanted List.

You can read the newspaper story via the below link:

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/world/2011/05/04/2011-05-04_osama_bin_laden_dead_ayman_alzawahiri_could_replace_him_as_alqaeda_chief_fbis_mo.html?r=news

I love the above Bill Bramhall cartoon that accompanied the newspaper story.

Sixteen Years After The Oklahoma City Bombing - How The Attacks Led To The FBI's Counterterrorism Focus

On the sixteenth anniversary of the bombing of the federal building in Oklahoma City, FoxNews.com offers an excerpt from an interesting book that I happen to be reading, Garrett M.Graff's The Threat Matrix: The FBI at War in the Age of Global Terror. 

April 19th is a date few in the FBI will soon forget: The bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City by Timothy McVeigh, an attack that killed 168 people, forever changed the trajectory of the U.S. counterterrorism mission. Even though it was at the time the deadliest terrorist attack on U.S. soil—eclipsed internationally only by the bombing of Pan Am 103 in 1998—the incident is often now seen as an outlier in a decade of the rising threat of Islamic extremists, sandwiched between the 1993 attack on the World Trade Center and the 1998 attack on the U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania. However, Oklahoma City is actually much more central to American counterterrorism efforts than many realize.

You can read the rest of the piece via the below link:

http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2011/04/19/sixteen-years-oklahoma-city-bombing-attacks-led-fbis-counterterrorism-focus/