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... 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...

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...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... ...they were vectored toward military-controlled airspace off the Long Island coast.To avoid New Y ork area air traffic and uncertain about what to do, t... ... asked for help in locating United 175. Terminal: I got somebody who keeps coasting but it looks like he’s going into one of the small airports down t... ...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... ...HE WHITE HOUSE Because coping with terrorism was not (and is not) the sole province of any component of the U.S. government, some coordinating mechani... ...itary cantonment, away from civilian population centers and overwhelmingly populated by jihadists. Clarke remembered sitting next to T enet in a White... ...art of the country, extending into the North-West Frontier and Baluchistan provinces of Pakistan. 169 Because of the Taliban’s behavior and its associ...

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...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. THE LIFE AND ADVENTURES OF NICHOLAS NICKLEBY, containing a Fait... ...ut Y ork- shire schools when I was a not very robust child, sitting in bye-places near Rochester Castle, with a head full of partridge, strap, T om pi... ...is neighbourhood, the writer would be very much obliged. I went to several places in that part of the country where I understood the schools to be mos... ...ini. ‘Do you wish to break my heart?’ ‘Not for twenty thousand hemispheres populated with— with—with little ballet-dancers,’ replied Mantalini in a po... ...and drawing in his breath with a hissing sound, ‘she oughtn’t to be in the provinces, she oughtn’ t.’ 289 Charles Dickens ‘What do you mean?’ asked t... ...ut moving hand or foot, until it was satisfactorily ascer- tained that the coast was clear. This done, Noggs limped away with great alacrity; looking ... ...ank himself on the other. ‘Kate,’ murmured Mrs Nickleby, reviving when the coast was clear, ‘is he gone?’ She was assured that he was. ‘I shall never ...