Michael Scheuer Quotes

You couldn’t have done this without killing an Arab prince.

Without the connotation good or bad, bin Laden’s a great man in the sense that he’s influenced the course of history.

We are tangled in a very significant Islamic insurgency in Iraq.

Until we respect bin Laden, we are going to die in numbers that are probably unnecessary.

The world is lousy with Arab princes. And if we could have got Osama bin Laden, and saved at some point down the road 3,000 American lives, a few less Arab princes would have been OK in my book.

The uniqueness of the unit was more or less that it was focused on a single individual. It was really the first time the agency had done that sort of effort.