... 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 ... ...8) 63 3. COUNTERTERRORISM EVOLVES 71 3.1 From the Old Terrorism to the New: The First World Trade Center Bombing 71 3.2 Adaptation—and Nonadapta... ...6.3 The Attack on the USS Cole 190 6.4 Change and Continuity 198 6.5 The New Administration’s Approach 203 7. THE ATTACK LOOMS 215 7.1 First Arr... ... 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... ...lane—Passengers are throwing up and getting sick—The plane is making jerky movements—I don’t think the pilot is flying the plane—I think we are going ... ...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... ...l destruction of the Caliphate on lead- ers who abandoned the pure path of religious devotion. 9 He repeatedly calls on his followers to embrace marty... ...than you desire life.” 15 History and Political Context Few fundamentalist movements in the Islamic world gained lasting political power. In the ninet... ...that “by the grace of Allah, a safe base here is now available in the high Hindu Kush mountains in Khurasan. ” But the T aliban, like the Sudanese, wo...

...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 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...