...HE NEW TERRORISM 47 2.1 A Declaration of War 47 2.2 Bin Ladin’s Appeal in the Islamic World 48 2.3 The Rise of Bin Ladin and al Qaeda (1988–1992... ...Declaring War on the United States (1992–1996) 59 2.5 Al Qaeda’s Renewal in Afghanistan (1996–1998) 63 3. COUNTERTERRORISM EVOLVES 71 3.1 From t... ... toward us and our values is limitless. Its purpose is to rid the world of religious and polit- ical pluralism, the plebiscite, and equal rights for w... ... as American 11 was being hijacked, and at 8:42 the United 175 flight crew completed their report on a “suspicious transmis- sion” overheard from anot... ...themselves the victims of successive foreign masters. He uses cultural and religious allusions to the holy Qur’an and some of its interpreters. He app... ...rts about counterterrorism had been com- pleted. Indeed, the FBI had never completed an assessment of the overall ter- rorist threat to the U.S. homel... ...time raid on Tarnak Farms. 17 A compound of about 80 concrete or mud-brick buildings surrounded by a 10-foot wall,Tarnak Farms was located in an isola... ...n operation that would involve training pilots who would crash planes into buildings in the United States. This proposal eventually would become the 9... ...7). For arrival in Virginia, see ibid. (citing 265A- NY -280350-NH, serial 1859). 65. For Atta’s training at Huffman, see, e.g., FBI report,“Hijackers...

... a Homeland 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 Appeal in the Islamic World 48 2.3 The Rise of Bin Ladin and al Qaeda (1988?1992) 55 2.4 Building an Organization, Declaring War on the United States (1992?1996) 59 2.5 Al Qaeda?s Renewal in Afghanistan (1996?1998) 63 3. COUNTERTERR...