"Atwan's 1996 interview with bin Laden in his Afghanistan redoubt was one of the first and remains one of the best. Atwan 'got it' from the moment bin Laden appeared on the scene. . . . What many Muslims] hate is not the American people but American foreign policy."--Michael Scheuer, the founding head of the CIA's Osama bin Laden unit, in The Washington Post review of The Secret Life of al-Qa'ida In A Country of Words,...