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When it comes to analyzing the seriousness of al Qaeda and Osama bin Laden, Michael Sheehan seems like the kind of guy whose perspective should matter. He's fought guerrillas in Central America as a U.S. Army Green Beret in 1980s; he was an NSC official under both H.W. Bush and Bill Clinton; and he was the ambassador-at-large for counterterrorism from 1998 to 2000. Sheehan has a new book out, "Crush the Cell: How to Defeat Terrorism Without Terrorizing Ourselves," which touts a provocative thesis - we didn't take al Qaeda seriously enough before 9/11, and it "just isn't the existential-twilight-struggle threat it's often cracked up to be" now.

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