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... © 2008 ISBN 978-0-9823076-0-1 3 Table of Contents THE RETURN FROM SPACE ...................................................... ............................................................................ 4 THE GOOD LIFE .............................................................. ... in the minds of humanity. “This is Chet Rowland of World News on the California desert where we have just witnessed the final leg of t... ...illions of earthlings who have overflowed our planet. Let me try to grab him on his way to de-briefing. “Commander, let me just ask a co... ...l homes for the excess world population? 5 —“Not at all. There are a few places on Mars and Venus that might be suitable for underground cities. ... .... The politically correct idea that Jews and Asians should be kept in lowly places has given way to the reality of Jews, Chinese and Japanese outper... ...alent number of roads for a world population of 50 billion, if the sparsely populated U.S. kept an equivalent percentage of people it would have near... ...gladesh killing over a million people, still Bangladesh is the most densely populated large country in the world with over 1000 people per square ki... ... may think America is for murders, it is way down the list when compared to Columbia and South Africa. Interpol told me that the per capita murder r...

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...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 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 B...

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... 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 C... ...Improvising 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 ... ... 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... ...isis 174 6.2 Post-Crisis Reflection:Agenda for 2000 182 6.3 The Attack on the USS Cole 190 6.4 Change and Continuity 198 6.5 The New Administrat... ...es of engagement.These fighters, part of the 113th Wing of the District of Columbia Air National Guard, launched out of Andrews Air Force Base in Mary... ...rnment, always conscious of its duties as the custodian of Islam’s holiest places, joined with wealthy Arabs from the Kingdom and other states borderi... ...ns for recruiting and training fighters for Islamic insur- gencies in such places as Tajikistan, Kashmir, and Chechnya. Pakistani intelli- gence offic... ...itary cantonment, away from civilian population centers and overwhelmingly populated by jihadists. Clarke remembered sitting next to T enet in a White... ...d the fire departments of Fair- fax County,Alexandria, and the District of Columbia to request mutual aid. 314 THE 9/11 COMMISSION REPORT Final 8-9.5p...