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The antecedents and aftermath of the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq and the role of the United States in international affairs.

... Writing Volume 9 Student Voices A Commonwealth College Publication Editor in Chief J J J J Jim M im M im M im M im Manis anis anis anis anis Editors ... ...l the student essays contained herein were produced by students registered in English 004, 015 and 030, within the Commonwealth College of The Pennsyl... ...itten permission. No portion of Best of Freshman Writing may be reproduced in any fashion without the express written permission of the authors. Best ... ...p to the hospital in the middle of the night. That’s when my greatest fear set in. Like a child peering from a window, looking for old Saint Nick on C... ... advanced and cost-effective. For the next sixteen years, even without new films, the Star W ars universe continued to expand, gaining more fans every... ...hose made for the first Star Wars trilogy so popular in a time when sci-fi films aren’t widely liked? The answer could be as simple as the flashy comp... ... of our way of life as Americans. This movie, as its title may suggest, is set in space, a place that mankind has looked to for eons. Space represents... ... or ever was, just a movie with a cult following. Unlike many other sci-fi films and series, it isn’t restricted to a small select group of fans. It i... ...nds herself plagued by guilt. She has become delusional, and she is so up- set that, in her sleep, she relives Duncan’s murder each night, rambling to...

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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... ...First World Trade Center Bombing 71 3.2 Adaptation—and Nonadaptation— ...in the Law Enforcement Community 73 3.3 . . . and in the Federal Aviation... ... at least the metal content of a .22-caliber handgun.Anyone who might have set off that detector would have been screened with a hand wand—a procedure... ... of the X-ray machine and proceeded through the first metal detector. Both set off the alarm, and they were directed to a second metal detector. Mihdh... ...ot trigger the alarm and was permitted through the checkpoint. After Moqed set it off, a screener wanded him. He passed this inspection. 14 About 20 m... ...t and training field.A Communist government in Afghanistan gained power in 1978 but was unable to establish enduring control.At the end of 1979, the S... ...reign powers and agents of foreign powers without any court review, but in 1978 Congress passed the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act. 29 This law... ...ad,Apr. 5, 2004. KSM says that he permitted the trainees to view Hollywood films about hijackings only after he edited the films to cover the female c...

... 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...