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...THE 9/11 COMMISSION REPORT Final FM.1pp 7/17/04 5:25 PM Page i List of Illustrations and Tables ix Member List xi Staff List xiii–xiv Pr... ...omeland Defense 14 1.3 National Crisis Management 35 2. THE FOUNDATION OF THE NEW TERRORISM 47 2.1 A Declaration of War 47 2.2 Bin Ladin’s App... ...Action 126 4.5 Searching for Fresh Options 134 5. AL QAEDA AIMS AT THE AMERICAN HOMELAND 145 5.1 Terrorist Entrepreneurs 145 5.2 The “Planes O... ...r stairwell with deviations p. 312 The Twin Towers following the impact of American Airlines Flight 11 and United Airlines Flight 175 p. 313 The Penta... ...entry to the cockpit, and she did not know how.The aircraft was in a rapid descent. 35 At 8:41, Sweeney told Woodward that passengers in coach were un... ...me time Sweeney reported to Woodward,“Something is wrong.We are in a rapid descent . . . we are all over the place.”Woodward asked Sweeney to look out... ...ies. In the 1960s, the CIA suffered exposure of its botched effort to land Cuban exiles at the Bay of Pigs.The Vietnam W ar brought on more criticism.... ...n, dominated by a wealthy and indolent elite. Saudi contacts with American politicians are frequently invoked as accusations in partisan polit- ical a...
...Excerpt: We present the narrative of this report and the recommendations that flow from it to the President of the United States, the United States Congress, and the American people for their consideration. Ten Commissioners--five Republicans and five Democra...
...CONTENTS List of Illustrations and Tables ix Member List xi Staff List xiii?xiv Preface xv 1. ?WE HAVE SOME PLANES? 1 1.1 Inside the Four Flights 1 1.2 Improvising a Homeland Defense 14 1.3 National Crisis Management 35 2. THE FOUNDATION O...
...ublication North America: Volume One by Anthony Trollope is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ....................................................... 151 CHAPTER XI: CERES AMERICANA .................................................................... ...t now my primary object. Thirty years ago my mother wrote a book about the Americans, to which I believe I may allude as a well- known and successful ... ...s the component parts of one nation. Such, I take it, is the belief of all politicians in Europe, and of many of those who live across the water. But ... ...t that treaties must necessarily be null and void through the falseness of politicians. 26 North America V ol. 1 “And what will England do for cotton... ...ome- 60 North America V ol. 1 times not without an innocent tumble in the descent. As we were at Quebec in September, we did not experience the delig... ...the rock as to create beautiful forms in the rush which they make in their descent. Strang- ers are told to look at these falls from the suspension br... ...s to the gentleman at the corner there, there are rumors about him and the Cuban slave trade but my informant by no means knows that they are true. Su...
...R X: THE UPPER MISSISSIPPI .................................................................................................... 151 CHAPTER XI: CERES AMERICANA .......................................................................................................... 169 CHAPTER XII: BUFFALO TO NEW YORK ..........................................................................
... Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Por table Document file is f... ...ity. This Por table Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and i... .... With firm and regular step they wend, they never stop, Successions of men, Americanos, a hundred millions, One generation playing its part and passi... ...or backward towards me to listen, With eyes retrospective towards me. 3 Americanos! conquerors! marches humanitarian! Foremost! century marches! ... ... Frenchman is sure, the German is sure, the Spaniard is sure, and the island Cuban is sure, The engineer, the deck hand on the great lakes, or on the ... ...the good old cause in it? Has it not dangled long at the heels of the poets, politicians, literats, of enemies’ lands? Does it not assume that what is... ...of all good. These faces bear testimony slumbering or awake, They show their descent from the Master himself. Off the word I have spoken I except not ...
...Excerpt: BOOK I. INSCRIPTIONS. One?s-self I sing, a simple separate person, Yet utter the word Democratic, the word En-Masse. Of physiology from top to toe I sing, Not physiognomy alone nor brain alone is worthy for the Muse, I say the Form complete is worthier far, The Female equally with the Male I sing. Of Life immense in passion, pulse, and powe...
...Contents LEAVES OF GRASS.......................8 BOOK I. INSCRIPTIONS..................9 One?s-Self I Sing...................................9 As I Ponder?d in Silence.....................10 In Cabin?d Ships at Sea.......................11 T...