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The 9/11 Commission Report Final Report of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States

By: Thomas H. Kean

...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... ...ment 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... ...M 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 Buil... ...adin 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 Afghani... ...TERTERRORISM EVOLVES 71 3.1 From the Old Terrorism to the New: The First World Trade Center Bombing 71 3.2 Adaptation—and Nonadaptation— ...in the... ...nsel & Team Leader Karen Heitkotter Executive Secretary W alter T . Hempel II Professional Staff Member C. Michael Hurley Senior Counsel & Team Leader... ...7/04 4:14 PM Page 387 identifiers—digital photographs and prints of two index fingers—from travel- ers. False identities are used by terrorists to ... ...o and Firearms,” undated (online at www.atf.gov/pub/gen_pub/annualrpt/1995/index.htm); ATF report,“ATF Snapshot,” Jan. 30, 1998 (online at www.atf.gov...

...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...

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Catherine : A Story

By: William Makepeace Thackeray

...cation Catherine: A Story by William Makepeace Thackeray 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... ...erely argued, whether he was the meanest miser or the greatest hero in the world; when Mrs. Masham had not yet put Madam Marlborough’s nose out of joi... ...h they should gain by it;—whatever the reason was, it was evident that the war was to continue, and there was almost as much soldiering and recruiting... ...amation to his soldiers after running away, a hijo de la guerra—a child of war. Not seven cities, but one or two regiments, might contend for the hono... ...ung fellow whose dress would show that he was somewhat better to do in the world than Clodpole and the rest of the sunburnt ragged troop, who were mar... ...Count, who, when he asked for a sack and toast, was fur- nished with those articles by the landlady herself: and, during the half-hour in which he was... ...pply to Government for a pension, and think that our duty is done. CHAPTER II. IN WHICH ARE DE- PICTED THE PLEASURES OF A SENTI- MENTAL ATTACHMENT. IT... ... have done. I can turn out a quo- tation from Sophocles (by looking to the index) as well as another: I can throw off a bit of fine writing too, with ...

...Excerpt: Advertisement. The story of ?Catherine,? which appeared in Fraser?s Magazine in 1839-40, was written by Mr. Thackeray, under the name of Ikey Solomons, Jun., to counteract the injurious influence of some popular fictions of that day, which made heroe...

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Familiar Studies of Men and Books

By: Robert Louis Stevenson

...NSON A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Familiar Studies of Men and Books by Robert Louis Stevenson is a publication of the Pennsylv... ...ity. 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... .................................................................. 15 CHAPTER II – SOME ASPECTS OF ROBERT BURNS............................................. ... than if he had 9 Familiar Studies of Men & Books turned on his heel with Worldly Wiseman, married a conge- nial spouse, and lived orderly and died r... ...edibly to Mrs. Grundy, I have been led into certain airs of the man of the world, which are merely ridiculous in me, and were not intentionally discou... ... what it has ever entered into the heart of any other man to imagine (vol. ii. p. 180): “Il souffrait tant que par instants il s’arrachait des poignee... ...arose in part from his lax views about religion; for at this time that old war of the creeds and confessors, which is always grumbling from end to end... ...rry in the pocket, and fastened with a pin,” which he scribbled during the war by the bedsides of the wounded or in the excitement of great events. Th... ...ory of trades or implements, with no more colour or coherence than so many index-words out of a dictionary? I do not know that we can say anything, bu...

...Excerpt: Preface By Way Of Criticism. These studies are collected from the monthly press. One appeared in the New Quarterly, one in MacMillan?s, and the rest in the Cornhill Magazine. To the Cornhill I owe a double debt of thanks; first, that I was ...

...Contents PREFACE BY WAY OF CRITICISM. ........................................................................................... 4 CHAPTER I ? VICTOR HUGO?S ROMANCES ........................................................................ 15 CHAPTE...

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