...Easton Police Department and relayed what he had heard. 45 Also at 8:52, a male flight attendant called a United office in San Francisco, reaching Mar... ...nternal and external threats; but because NORAD was created to counter the Soviet threat, it came to define its job as defending against external atta... ... to define its job as defending against external attacks. 96 The threat of Soviet bombers diminished significantly as the Cold War ended, and the numb... ...n excited reaction at a moment of crisis.The press was standing behind the children; he saw their phones and pagers start to ring.The President felt h... ... 9/11 COMMISSION REPORT Final1-4.4pp 7/17/04 9:12 AM Page 38 while the children continued reading. He then returned to a holding room shortly befo... ...been preparing in Somalia for another long struggle, like that against the Soviets in Afghanistan, but “the United States rushed out of Somalia in sha... ...hen he arrived in Afghanistan in 1980, Bin Ladin was the seventeenth of 57 children of a Saudi construction magnate. Six feet five and thin, Bin Ladin... ...was to land the tenth plane at a U.S. airport and, after killing all adult male passengers on board and alerting the media, deliver a speech excoriati... ...ter the move, Bayoumi used their apartment for a party attended by some 20 male members of the Muslim community.At Bayoumi’s request, Bin Don videotap...