Osama bin Laden

by Michael Scheuer

Mike was the leader of the CIA’s Bin Laden unit when it was founded in 95. His biography gets the story of the Zawahiri/Bin Laden relationship right

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Osama bin Laden

by Michael Scheuer

Other books by Michael Scheuer

Through our Enemies’ Eyes by Michael Scheuer

Our most recommended books

On Liberty by John Stuart Mill

War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy

Middlemarch by George Eliot

Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell

Frankenstein (Book) by Mary Shelley

The Odyssey by Homer and translated by Emily Wilson

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Through our Enemies’ Eyes
by Michael Scheuer

On Liberty
by John Stuart Mill

War and Peace
by Leo Tolstoy

Middlemarch
by George Eliot

Nineteen Eighty-Four
by George Orwell

Frankenstein (Book)
by Mary Shelley

The Odyssey
by Homer and translated by Emily Wilson