Terrorism
23 Articles & Excerpts
Wrong Questions Produce Wrong Answers
Our Own Worst Enemy: Asking the Right Questions About Security to Protect You, Your Family, and America by Colonel Randall J. Larsen USAF In this critical and provocative examination of the deficiencies and oversights in homeland security, a leading expert reveals what individual citizens, communities, and business leaders can do to best prepare for the most dangerous threats.
9/11
Inside the Kingdom: My Life in Saudi Arabia by Carmen Bin Ladin The New York Times bestseller by Osama bin Laden's sister-in-law that provides a penetrating look inside the Bin Laden family, Saudi society, and the treatment of Saudi women. She married Osama Bin Laden's brother. Now she dares to tell her story.
Coping With Terrorism by National Institute of Health Most people may not think of them this way, but emotions are critical for human survival. Among other things, they help us learn from our bad experiences so that we can avoid harmful situations in the future.
Chapter 1
The Boy Who Fell Out of the Sky by Ken Dornstein In this stunning, emotionally charged memoir, Ken Dornstein interweaves the moving story of his own coming-of-age with the promise of greatness his brother never lived to fulfill. The Boy Who Fell Out of the Sky is a heartbreaking but profoundly hopeful
Project BioShield Fighting Terrorism by Food and Drug Administration (FDA) A new law improves the nation's defense against biological, radiological, and nuclear attack. Project BioShield establishes a permanent funding source through which the federal government can buy medical countermeasures from private companies.
Terrorism: Medical Countermeasures, Part 2 by Food and Drug Administration (FDA) In December 2002, President Bush announced a voluntary national plan to contain a smallpox outbreak through vaccinating smallpox response teams across the country. These teams are made up mostly of health care workers.
Terrorism: Medical Countermeasures by Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Ensuring that safe and effective medical products are available for diagnosing, treating, and preventing illness due to terrorist agents is the responsibility of the FDA's Center for Drug Evaluation and Research, the Center for Devices and Radiological
Terrorism: Food Safety and Security by Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Food safety and security fall under the jurisdiction of several centers and offices within the FDA, including the Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition and the National Center for Toxicological Research, which conducts scientific research to suppor
The FDA and the Fight Against Terrorism by Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Minutes after two hijacked airliners crashed into the World Trade Center on the morning of Sept.11, 2001, the Federal Aviation Administration stopped all flights from U.S. airports. It marked the first time that air traffic came to a halt nationwide.
End of Days
Bible Code II: The Countdown by Michael Drosnin The hidden code, discovered in the Bible by a famous Israeli mathematician, had already revealed other world-shaking events that took place thousands of years after the Bible was written. Now it revealed the entire event I had just witnessed.
A Soldier's Story from the Front Lines of the War on Terrorism
This Man's Army by Andrew Exum The sun rose over the mountains to the east, flooding the valley with light. While it remained dark, we could still tease ourselves into thinking that the job we had to do today was some way off.
CIA, Afghanistan, and bin Laden, Part 4
Ghost Wars by Steve Coll Many of the rioters joined the melee spontaneously, but as the rampage unfolded, it also revealed evidence of substantial coordinated planning. On the embassy grounds CIA personnel spotted what appeared to be riot organizers wearing distinctive sweater
The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan, and bin Laden
Ghost Wars by Steve Coll 'We're Going to Die Here' It was a small riot in a year of upheavals, a passing thunderclap disgorged by racing skies. When the mob broke in, William Putscher, a thirty-two-year-old American government auditor, was eating a hot dog.
Universities, Part 2
Holy War on the Home Front by Harvey Kushner, Bart Davis Americans have been looking at these pieces of the puzzle for years but still won't accept that the pieces are connected. No one wants to sound bigoted against a religious group, and connecting the puzzle pieces creates an uncomfortable picture few want
Universities
Holy War on the Home Front by Harvey Kushner, Bart Davis The secret Islamic network didn't begin in 2001 when the World Trade Center and the Pentagon were attacked. Nor did it begin in the 1990s when Islamic terrorists first attempted to blow up the World Trade Center.
The Secret Islamic Terror Network in the United States
Holy War on the Home Front by Harvey Kushner, Bart Davis Near the end of the Spanish Civil War, General Emilio Mola's army was advancing on Madrid when someone asked him which of his four columns would capture the city. 'The Fifth Column,' he replied, meaning the rebel's militant supporters inside the capital
Has America Abandoned Israel?
The American Prophecies : Ancient Scriptures Reveal Our Nation's Future by Michael D. Evans At the beginning of this chapter I placed a quote from Rev. W. O. Vaught, who was Bill Clinton's pastor while he was governor of Arkansas. Reverend Vaught, who made more than forty trips to Israel during his lifetime, told Clinton that God would forgive
In the Eye of the Prophetic Storm
The American Prophecies : Ancient Scriptures Reveal Our Nation's Future by Michael D. Evans There's a reason for the hostility of Islamic fundamentalists toward America. It is rooted in bigotry, the ancient prejudice against Jews. From the time George Washington placed his hand upon a Bible and swore the oath to become the first president
September 11, 2001, 8:48 a.m.
Report from Ground Zero by Dennis Smith The tragic events of September 11, 2001, forever altered the American landscape, both figuratively and literally. Immediately after the jets struck the twin towers of the World Trade Center, Dennis Smith, a former firefighter, reported to Manhattan's Ladd
Morning
Last Man Down: A New York City Fire Chief and the Collapse of the World Trade Center by Chief Richard Picciotto A Firefighter's Story of Survival and Escape from the World Trade Center. On September 11, 2001, FDNY Battalion Chief Richard 'Pitch' Picciotto answered the call heard around the world. In minutes he was at Ground Zero of the worst terrorist attack
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