Shedding light on his development as a theologian, media manipulator, and paramilitary commander, Scheuer makes use of all the speeches and interviews bin Laden has given as well as lengthy interviews, testimony, and previously untranslated documents written by those who grew up with bin Laden in Saudi Arabia, served as his bodyguards and drivers, and fought alongside him against the Soviets.

Osama bin Laden may be dead but the objectives he strove to achieve have in a large part become a reality. Reuters provides business, financial, national and international news to professionals via desktop terminals, the world's media organizations, industry events and directly to consumers. Scheuer has been featured on many national and international television news programs, has been interviewed for broadcast media and documentaries, and has been the focus of print media worldwide. Thomas Joscelyn of Weekly Standard wrote a critical piece on Scheuer and an interview Scheuer did on Hardball with Chris Matthews. His greatest and later best-known moment came in 1956 at the Melbourne Olympics when he earned the first German gold medal after World War II together with Meinrad Miltenberger in the K2 over 1,000 metres.

The “Zero Dark Thirty” main character is thought to be based on an amalgam of CIA operatives, including Scheuer, though she was not central in the quest to hunt down Bin Laden.

If Trump does not act soon to erase" his opponents, he wrote, "the armed citizenry must step in and eliminate them. The bin Laden who emerges from these accounts is devout, talented, patient, and ruthless; in other words, a truly formidable and implacable enemy of the West.Born Michael Scheuer, Sarne first came to prominence with his hit comedy record Come Outside (1962).