Former Head of CIA's bin Laden Unit on the Al Qaeda Leader's Death

The Leonard Lopate Show | May 2, 2011

Michael Scheuer, who led the CIA's Osama bin Laden Tracking Unit from 1996 to 1999 and was a counterterrorism analyst until 2004, discusses  bin Laden's death and what it means for al Qaeda and the continuing military operations in Afghanistan. His latest book is Osama bin Laden.

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