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...The book is devoted to roads, their origin and development throughout the centuries. Their history started along with the appearance of humans, their first paths, first attempts to expand the borders of their habitat. The chronicles of road connections should be considered as the history of humankind in the spatial domain at the crossroads of which the fat...
...In those distant times, traveling was always an unsafe business, so every merchant had to consider the risks of it. The road was rarely even, not to mention picturesque. It typically ran through a desert, often stony, with camels’ skeletons strewn all around—eerie marks, indeed, but useful for any traveler to use them for road signs...
...1. World’s Origins. Population Spread 2. First States 3. Ancient Rome. Secrets of the Empire 4. The Middle Ages. Drawing New Boundaries 5. The Age of Great Geographical Discoveries. The New Continent 6. Island Isolationism. Japan 7. The Modern Era. The Automobile 8. On the Verge of Globalization. U...
...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... ... 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, De... ...nian Muslims in their conflict with Serbia and Croatia; and an NGO in Baku,Azerbaijan, that was employed as well by Egyptian Islamic Jihad both as a s... ...hilosophy or our approach” even though the terrorist threat had grown.They outlined an eight-part strategy “to be more proactive and aggressive.”The f... ...ted terrorist operatives.After the embassy bombings, there were arrests in Azerbaijan, Italy, and Britain. Several terrorists were sent to an Arab cou... ...in the mujahid leader Ibn al Khattab in Chechnya. Unable to travel through Azerbaijan, KSM returned to Karachi and then to Afghanistan to renew contac... ... the Y emeni and American investigations proceeded.Within a few weeks, the outline of the story began to emerge. 128 On the day of the Cole attack, a ... ...e resulting organization of the intelligence community in chapter 3. It is outlined below. HOW TO DO IT? 407 Members of the U.S. Intelligence Communit...
...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...