"No one should be surprised when Osama bin Laden and al Qaeda detonate a weapon of mass destruction in the United States. I don't believe in inevitability. But I think it's pretty close to being inevitable."

Michael Scheuer, American Public Servant

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"No one should be surprised when Osama bin Laden and al Qaeda detonate a weapon of mass destruction in the United States. I don't believe in inevitability. But I think it's pretty close to being inevitable."

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"Our leaders continue to say that we're making strong headway against this problem. And I think we are not."

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"'The war in Iraq - if Osama was a Christian - it's the Christmas present he never would have expected."

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"I'm much better informed than Mr. Clarke ever was about the nature of the intelligence that was available again Osama bin Laden and which was consistently denigrated by himself and Mr. Tenet."

Intelligence

"I think Mr. Clarke had a tendency to interfere too much with the activities of the CIA, and our leadership at the senior level let him interfere too much. So criticism from him I kind of wear as a badge of honor."

Leadership

"Bin Laden is remarkably eager for Americans to know why he doesn't like us, what he intends to do about it and then following up and doing something about it in terms of military actions."

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"The treatise found that he was perfectly within his rights to use them."

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

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