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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 Pennsylva- nia State... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The History of the Thirty Years’ War by Friedrich Schiller Tran... ...ngoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. C... ...of the Thirty Y ears’ War newly-organized state into the field of European politics. What this great prince had merely sketched in rude outline, was f... ...g involved in a tedious war with Poland, in which the whole of Livonia and Polish Prussia were successively conquered. Though constantly vic- torious,... ...erial troops 155 Friedrich Schiller had been despatched to the aid of the Polish king, Sigismund, to defend Prussia against the Swedes. When the king... ...ution of it. Charnasse, an unsuspected agent of the Cardinal, proceeded to Polish Prussia, where Gustavus Adolphus was conducting the war against Sigi... ... sacred, escaped the rapacity of the enemy. In a single church fifty-three women were found beheaded. The Croats amused themselves with throwing child... ...eeded the Swedish army, there were in the camp of Wallenstein about 15,000 women, with as many drivers, and nearly the same number in that of the Swed...

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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... ...First World Trade Center Bombing 71 3.2 Adaptation—and Nonadaptation— ...in the Law Enforcement Community 73 3.3 . . . and in the Federal Aviation... ... religious and polit- ical pluralism, the plebiscite, and equal rights for women. It makes no dis- tinction between military and civilian targets. Col... ...ate and nearly cloudless in the eastern United States. Millions of men and women readied themselves for work. Some made their way to the T win T owers... ...ab oil states or to the West. Furthermore, the repression and isolation of women in many Muslim countries have not only seriously limited individual o... ...existence as a nation, Pakistan’s identity had derived from Islam, but its politics had been decidedly secular.The army was—and remains—the country’s ... ...0s onward, religion had become an increasingly powerful force in Pakistani politics.After a coup in 1977, military leaders turned to Islamist groups f... ...ween Atta and an Iraqi intelligence officer (discussed in chapter 7) and a Polish report that personnel at the headquarters of Iraqi intelligence in B...