...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... ...gate just before 8:00. 10 Washington Dulles:American 77. Hundreds of miles southwest of Boston, at Dulles International Airport in the Virginia suburb... ...nutes after the hijacking began, Betty Ong contacted the American Airlines Southeastern Reservations Office in Cary, North Carolina, via an AT&T airph... ...cted the American Airlines Southeastern Reservations Office in Cary, North Carolina, via an AT&T airphone to report an emergency aboard the flight.Thi... ...arget, they were vectored toward military-controlled airspace off the Long Island coast.To avoid New Y ork area air traffic and uncertain about what t... ...and when the Philippine government fights ethnic Mus- lims in its southern islands.America is also held responsible for the governments of Muslim coun... ...to enroll at Chowan College, a small Baptist school in Murfreesboro, North Carolina.After a semester at Chowan, KSM transferred to North Carolina Agri... ...st, instead. 30 The eventual result was an attempted attack on the USS The Sullivans in January 2000 and the successful attack, in October 2000, on th... ...ombing operation. An attempt to execute that plan by attacking the USS The Sullivans had failed just a few days earlier. Nibras and Quso were bringing...