...FM.1pp 7/17/04 5:25 PM Page ix Final FM.1pp 7/17/04 5:25 PM Page x Thomas H. Kean chair Richard Ben-Veniste Fred F . Fielding Jamie S. Gorelic... ...17/04 5:25 PM Page ix Final FM.1pp 7/17/04 5:25 PM Page x Thomas H. Kean chair Richard Ben-Veniste Fred F . Fielding Jamie S. Gorelick Slade Go... ...age our fellow citizens to study, reflect—and act. xviii PREFACE Thomas H. Kean chair Lee H. Hamilton vice chair Final FM.1pp 7/17/04 5:26 PM Page ... ...lled 11 more peo- ple, none of them Americans. Interviewed later about the deaths of the Africans, Bin Ladin answered that “when it becomes apparent t... ...al Intelligence William Casey. 97 When the facts were revealed in 1986 and 1987, it appeared to be the 1970s all over again: a massive abuse of covert... ...ed? Even after the embassy attacks, Bin Ladin had been responsible for the deaths of fewer than 50 Americans, most of them overseas.An NSC staffer wor... ...fter graduating from college.Visiting Pakistan for the first time in early 1987, he traveled to Peshawar, where his brother Zahid introduced him to th... ...ime he had seen Bin Ladin since 1989. Although they had fought together in 1987, Bin Ladin and KSM did not yet enjoy an especially close working relat... ... three-year period since accurate measurements began in 1946.Fire- fighter deaths—a total of 22 during the 1990s—compared favorably with the most tran...