High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Imperial Hubris: Why the West is Losing the War on Terror (Brassey`s, 2004; ISBN 1-57488-849-8) is a book originally published anonymously, but later revealed to have been authored by Michael Scheuer, a CIA veteran with 22 years service, who ran the Counterterrorist Center`s bin Laden station from 1996 to 1999.