...ication North America: Volume Two by Anthony Trollope is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished... ...ity of Washington was chosen with three special views: firstly, that being on the Potomac it might have the full advantage of water-carriage and a sea... ...s we can now see, and as well as we can now judge, Washington will soon be on the borders of the nation to which it belongs, instead of at its center.... ...e completion of which there can now, I imagine, be but little hope. Of all places that I know it is the most ungainly and most unsatisfactory: I fear ... ...d, between Emmaus and Arimathea. In the first place no one knows where the places are, or is sure of their existence, and then between their presumed ... ...o his already gathered constellations of those Western stars—of Wisconsin, Illinois, Minnesota, and Iowa; nor did he dream of Texas conquered, Louisia... ...been from year to year elected; when we remember the position of the newly populated States from which the members have been sent, and the absence thr... ... whole nation. It did not affect South Carolina otherwise than it affected Illinois, Pennsylvania, or even New York. The navigation laws may also have... ...ates should take a part. Now there are thirty-four States. The territories populated by American citizens stretch from the States on the Atlantic to t...

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... 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 C... ...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 ... ... 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... ...isis 174 6.2 Post-Crisis Reflection:Agenda for 2000 182 6.3 The Attack on the USS Cole 190 6.4 Change and Continuity 198 6.5 The New Administrat... ...0 The hijackers attacked at 9:28.While traveling 35,000 feet above eastern Ohio, United 93 suddenly dropped 700 feet. Eleven seconds into the descent,... ...rnment, always conscious of its duties as the custodian of Islam’s holiest places, joined with wealthy Arabs from the Kingdom and other states borderi... ...ns for recruiting and training fighters for Islamic insur- gencies in such places as Tajikistan, Kashmir, and Chechnya. Pakistani intelli- gence offic... ...itary cantonment, away from civilian population centers and overwhelmingly populated by jihadists. Clarke remembered sitting next to T enet in a White... ...stigation Patrick J. Fitzgerald, U.S.Attorney for the Northern District of Illinois CIA Officials Outline of the 9/11 Plot Jacqueline Maguire, Special...

...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 an...

...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 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 B...