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Mike Scheuer, a 22-year CIA veteran and former head of the CIA's Osama bin Laden unit until 1999, talks to the AP about the challenges in conducting the war against al-Qaida, during an interview from his home in Falls Church, Va., Monday, Nov. 15, 2004. Scheuer, who resigned from the CIA last Friday, was until recently known as the "anonymous" author of two books critical of the West's response to bin Laden and al Qaeda, the most recent of which is titled Imperial Hubris: Why the West is Losing the War on Terror. (KEYSTONE/AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)