**September 16, 2006 FEMA Emergency Management Higher Education Project
Activity Report**

\(1\) CLASH OF CIVILIZATIONS? \-- THE POPE AND ISLAM:

Ali Birand, Memmet. \"Pope\'s Unfortunate Comments.\" Turkish Daily
News, September 16, 2006. Accessed at:
[[http://www.turkishdailynews.com.tr/article.php?enewsid=54274]{.underline}](http://www.turkishdailynews.com.tr/article.php?enewsid=54274)
\-- \[Excerpt: \"\...he thinks that Muslims understand only force. If
Benedict XVI comes to Turkey with this mindset, it would be better for
him not to come at all. Such a visit would do more harm than good. \"\]

Associated Press. \"Vatican Stops Short of Apology as Muslim Leaders
Decry Comments.\" September 16, 2006. Accessed at:
[[http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,214127,00.html]{.underline}](http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,214127,00.html)
\-- {Excerpt: \"In a first reaction from a top Christian leader, the
head of Egypt\'s Coptic Orthodox Church said in remarks published
Saturday in the pro-government newspaper Al-Ahram that Benedict\'s
comments on Islam went \'against the teachings of Christ\'. In Lebanon,
Hezbollah and Lebanon\'s top Sunni Muslim religious authority denounced
the pope\'s remarks, with the militant Shiite Muslim group warning of a
global religious schism.\"\]

Brown, Stephen. \"Pope Sorry For Remarks.\" Reuters, September 16, 2006.
Accessed at:
[[http://www.topix.net/content/reuters/3275856119065729202518935980161871009253?threadid=C0UAJ99PGIREV534]{.underline}](http://www.topix.net/content/reuters/3275856119065729202518935980161871009253?threadid=C0UAJ99PGIREV534)
\-- \[Excerpt: \"Pope Benedict told Muslims on Saturday he was sorry
they had found his speech on Islam offensive, expressing his respect for
their faith and hoping they would understand the \"true sense\" of his
words. \'The Holy Father is very sorry that some passages of his speech
may have sounded offensive to the sensibilities of Muslim believers,\'
Vatican Secretary of State Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone said in a
statement\.... Yemen\'s president became the first head of state
publicly to denounce him and threatened to review ties with the Vatican
unless he apologized. Ali Abdullah Saleh, campaigning for re-election,
told voters at a rally Benedict had wronged Islam.\"\]

Daraghmeh, Ali. \"Five Palestinian Area Churches Attacked.\" Associated
Press, September 16, 2006. Accessed at:
[[http://www.topix.net/content/ap/0008268700216170945400525373042985756136]{.underline}](http://www.topix.net/content/ap/0008268700216170945400525373042985756136)
\-- \[Excerpt: \"Palestinians wielding guns and firebombs attacked five
churches in the West Bank and Gaza on Saturday, following remarks by
Pope Benedict XVI that angered many Muslims.\"\]

D\'Emilio, Francis. \"Pope Said To Be Upset Muslims Offended.\"
Associated Press, September 16, 2006. Accessed at:
[[http://www.bradenton.com/mld/bradenton/news/breaking_news/15531268.htm]{.underline}](http://www.bradenton.com/mld/bradenton/news/breaking_news/15531268.htm)
\-- \[Excerpt: \"Pope Benedict XVI \'sincerely regrets\' that Muslims
have been offended by some of his words in a recent speech in Germany,
the Vatican said Saturday - stopping short of issuing an apology the
Islamic world has demanded.\" Note: There is nothing in the article that
supports the article title.\]

Fisher, Ian. \"Muslim Anger Rises Over Pope\'s Speech.\" New York Times,
September 16, 2006. Accessed at:
[[http://www.iht.com/articles/2006/09/15/news/pope.php]{.underline}](http://www.iht.com/articles/2006/09/15/news/pope.php)
\-- \[Excerpt: \"Archbishop Dominique Mamberti, a French prelate with
experience in the Islamic world, was appointed Friday as the Vatican\'s
new foreign minister. He told Agence France-Presse: \'The dialogue
between different civilizations, cultures and religions - which nobody
can hide from - will be one of the great questions which I will tackle
in my new job\'.\"\]

Fraser, Giles. \"The Unmistakable Whiff of Christian Triumphalism.\" The
Guardian (UK), September 16, 2006. Accessed at:
[[http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,,1873712,00.html]{.underline}](http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,,1873712,00.html)
\-- \[Excerpt: \"This was no casual slip. Beneath his scholarly
rhetoric, the Pope\'s logic seemed to be that Islam is dangerous and
godless\.... these words fell from the lips of the spiritual leader of a
billion Christians without anything like enough qualification. There was
no phrase distancing himself from the claim that Muhammad was
responsible for evil. It\'s little surprise, therefore, that the remarks
have roused anger and demands for a personal apology\.... in claiming
that Islam may be beyond reason, and then to claim that to act without
reason is to act contrary to the will of God, is pretty close to the
assertion that this religion is godless. And that\'s not how different
faiths ought to speak to each other - especially when we all have each
other\'s blood on our hands.\" (Dr Giles Fraser is the vicar of Putney
and a lecturer in philosophy at Wadham College, Oxford).\]

Harvey, Benjamin. \"Turkish Cleric Criticizes Pope Comments.\"
Associated Press, 14 Sep 2006. At:
[[http://www.topix.net/content/ap/1554287368418336329834389286901942209193?threadid=O3GSLOF3DG40SF67]{.underline}](http://www.topix.net/content/ap/1554287368418336329834389286901942209193?threadid=O3GSLOF3DG40SF67)
\-- \[Excerpt: \"Ali Bardakoglu, head of Turkey\'s powerful Religious
Affairs Directorate, said he was deeply offended by remarks about
Islamic holy war made Tuesday by the pope during a visit to Germany\....
Bardakoglu said he expected an apology from the pope and said it was
Christianity, not Islam, that popularized conversion by the sword,
according to Turkey\'s state-owned Anatolia news agency\.... The
Christians \'saw war against those outside the Christian world as a holy
duty,\' Bardakoglu said. \'That\'s why the Western clerics always have
in the back of their minds a crusade mentality and the idea of holy
war.\' Bardakoglu said he suspected Benedict had the same
mentality\...\"\]

Hooper, John. \"After A Quite First Year As Pontiff, God\'s Rottweiler
Shows His Teeth.\" The Guardian (UK), September 16, 2006. Accessed at:
[[http://www.guardian.co.uk/pope/story/0,,1873926,00.html?gusrc=rss&feed=12]{.underline}](http://www.guardian.co.uk/pope/story/0,,1873926,00.html?gusrc=rss&feed=12)
\-- \[Excerpt: \"Pope believes his church should take tougher line on
Islam\.... it is clear from the passage that followed that the Pope
fully supports, if not the emperor\'s language, then certainly his
underlying contention - that holy war is at odds with reason. There are
two further motives for thinking Benedict is ready to upset the
believers in other faiths rather than shrink from what he believes needs
to be said (or not said)\.... The key word in the Vatican now is
\"reciprocity\". The leadership of the Roman Catholic church is
increasingly of the opinion that a meaningful dialogue with the Muslim
world is not possible while Christians are denied religious freedom in
Muslim states.\]

Hooper, John, Luke Harding. \"Muslim Leaders Demand Apology for Pope\'s
\'Medieval\' Remarks.\" The Guardian (UK), 16Sep2006. At:
[[http://www.guardian.co.uk/frontpage/story/0,,1873959,00.html]{.underline}](http://www.guardian.co.uk/frontpage/story/0,,1873959,00.html)
\-- \[Excerpt: \"An influential Iranian cleric branded his remarks
\'absurd\'. Ahmad Khatami told worshippers at Tehran University: \'The
Pope has insulted Islam\'.\"\]

Kanli, Yusuf. \"Now It\'s \'Condemn The Pope\' Season.\" Turkish Daily
News, September 16, 2006. Accessed at:
[[http://www.turkishdailynews.com.tr/article.php?enewsid=54284]{.underline}](http://www.turkishdailynews.com.tr/article.php?enewsid=54284)
\-- \[Excerpt: \"The Islamic world is \'up in arms\' again\....
Naturally, we cannot say it was wise for the former Cardinal Ratzinger
\-- notorious in this country for his anti-Turkish, even fascist, views
against a place for Turkey in the European Union \-- to make derogatory
remarks about Islam, the philosophy of jihad or the Prophet Mohammed
because as a man of religion he must be more aware than most how
explosive such words uttered by the pope of the Catholic world might be
in the Muslim world. Still, particularly after his spokesman issued some
sort of a retraction by stressing that Benedict \"respected Islam but
rejected violence motivated by religion,\" we believe it is rather
inappropriate for the ruling party of Turkey to brand the pope with
acting like Hitler or Mussolini, or the head of the Religious Affairs
Directorate declaring the Catholic world\'s leader as persona non grata
months before a scheduled visit to Turkey \-- the new pope\'s first trip
to a Muslim country\.... We fully agree with Religious Affairs
Directorate chief Bardakoğlu that the remarks of the pope were
\"extraordinarily worrying, saddening and unfortunate\" and could offend
any Muslim anywhere around the globe. But we just disagree with this
vendetta-like approach of continuing to abuse the pope after his
spokesman made a statement saying that he respected Islam and did not
intend to offend Muslims but just wanted to express his opposition to
violence in religion\.... The example cited by the pope was wrong, all
right. But for God\'s sake, as rational people we must try to read in
between the lines of the subsequent Vatican statement as well and
realize how sorry the head of the Catholic Church is about the mess he
created. We have more than sufficient tensions between cultures. We
should try to avoid a new one. After all, was not tolerance a benchmark
of Islam? Why don\'t we now demonstrate that rather than opening a
\"condemn the pope\" season? Popes make mistakes, too, and a public
apology might not be that easy for them.\"\]

Kashmir Observer. \"Valley Protests Against Papal Remarks.\" September
15, 2006. Accessed at:
[[http://www.kashmirobserver.com/index.php?id=551]{.underline}](http://www.kashmirobserver.com/index.php?id=551)
\-- \[Excerpt: \"On Thursday, the authorities had seized copies of many
national dailies that carried the text of the Pope\'s speech made in the
University of Regensburg (Germany) on Tuesday. \'These copies were
seized to prevent their circulation among the locals as that could
trigger anger and widespread protests in the Muslim majority Valley,\' a
police official said.\"\]

Kay, Liz F. \"Leaders of National, Local Muslim Groups Join in Decrying
Pope\'s Speech.\" Baltimore Sun, September 16, 2006. Accessed at:
[[http://www.topix.net/content/trb/1390831039302025072042882911842644475649]{.underline}](http://www.topix.net/content/trb/1390831039302025072042882911842644475649)
\-- \[Excerpt: \"Apologies often cannot overcome the rifts such
statements create, especially when \'you have the opportunity to connect
to millions and billions of people,\' Hasan {president of the Maryland
Muslim Council} said. \'The damage is done\'.\"\]

New York Times. \"The Pope\'s Words.\" September 16, 2006. Accessed at:
[[http://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/16/opinion/16sat2.html]{.underline}](http://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/16/opinion/16sat2.html)
\-- \[Excerpt: \"There is more than enough religious anger in the world.
So it is particularly disturbing that Pope Benedict XVI has insulted
Muslims, quoting a 14th-century description of Islam as \'evil and
inhuman\'\.... The world listens carefully to the words of any pope. And
it is tragic and dangerous when one sows pain, either deliberately or
carelessly. He needs to offer a deep and persuasive apology,
demonstrating that words can also heal.\"\]

Popham, Peter. \"Muslim World Protests at Pope\'s \'Derogatory\' Mohamed
Comments.\" The Independent (UK), 16 Sep 2006. At:
[[http://news.independent.co.uk/world/politics/article1603928.ece]{.underline}](http://news.independent.co.uk/world/politics/article1603928.ece)
\-- \[Excerpt: \"Pope Benedict XVI has ignited a firestorm of protest
from Muslims around the world in reaction to his citation of negative
remarks about the Prophet Mohamed and the purported Muslim tendency to
convert infidels by force\.... In one dense and scholarly paragraph, the
Pope thereby succeeded in combining the ideas that Islam is evil and
inhuman, that it converts (or at least converted) by the sword and that
doing so was proof of its unreasonableness as a religion and the
irrationality of its believers.\"\]

Rupert, James. \"Put Off By Papal Words.\" Newsday, September 16, 2006.
Accessed at:
[[http://www.topix.net/content/trb/0442615577374139760609294180064245629727]{.underline}](http://www.topix.net/content/trb/0442615577374139760609294180064245629727)
\-- \[Excerpt: \"ISLAMABAD, Pakistan - Angry protests by Muslims spread
worldwide Friday over a lecture by Pope Benedict XVI that quoted a
sweeping medieval condemnation of Islam. Pakistan\'s parliament
unanimously urged Benedict to withdraw his remarks\.... and the
Pakistani government summoned the Vatican\'s envoy to hear a formal
protest\.... In linking God to reason, Benedict attacked the notion of
\'holy war,\' which is one facet of the Islamic concept of jihad.\"\]

Sa\'ad, Atef. \"West Bank Churches Attacked After Pope Remark.\"
Reuters, September 16, 2006. At:
[[http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/09/16/AR2006091600178_pf.html]{.underline}](http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/09/16/AR2006091600178_pf.html)
\-- \[Excerpt: \"Salem Salama, the head of Muslim clerics in the
Palestinian territories, urged Palestinians to protect and respect
Christians and also called on Muslim countries not to allow the Pope to
visit in order to ensure his safety..\"\]

Santana, Rebecca. \"Pope\'s Comments on Islam Unite Iraqis.\" Associated
Press, September 15, 2006. Accessed at:
[[http://www.topix.net/content/ap/1147530896408521727818999276720169689974]{.underline}](http://www.topix.net/content/ap/1147530896408521727818999276720169689974)
\-- \[Excerpt: \"Often divided by religious differences, Iraq\'s Shiite
and Sunni Arabs united Friday in anger over remarks by Pope Benedict XVI
referring to Islam and holy war. Clerics from both communities\...called
the pontiff\'s comments an insult to the Muslim faith and its founder,
Prophet Muhammad\.... At the Abdul-Qadir al-Gilani mosque in central
Baghdad, Sunni cleric Mahmoud al-Isawi\'s sermon described the pope\'s
comment as a \'Western aggressive attack\' that was \'clearly showing
its hatred toward our Islamic religion.\' Shiite cleric Sheik
Abdul-Kareem al-Ghazi, in Iraq\'s second-largest city, Basra, said the
pope\'s comments ran counter to the Christian faith.\"\]

Shadid, Anthony. \"Remarks by Pope Prompt Muslim Outrage, Protests -
14th Century Quote Refers to \'Evil\' Islam.\" Washington Post,
September 16, 2006. Accessed at:
[[http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/09/15/AR2006091500800_pf.html]{.underline}](http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/09/15/AR2006091500800_pf.html)
\--

\[Excerpt: \"The reception to the pope\'s speech in Germany on Tuesday
was a reminder of the precarious, suspicious state of affairs between a
West that often views Islam as a faith in need of reform and a Muslim
world that feels besieged in the wake of the Sept. 11, 2001,
attacks\.... the Muslim Brotherhood, one of the Middle East\'s largest
and oldest Islamic groups, called on Muslim governments to sever
relations with the Vatican if the pope does not apologize\.... \'This is
another Crusader war against the Arab and Muslim world,\' Ismail Radwan,
a Hamas official\.... The criticism of the pope\'s remarks was often
twofold: at the reference of the prophet Muhammad\'s legacy as \"evil
and inhuman\" and at the idea that Islam was spread by the sword\.... In
Iraq, where religious differences have fueled much of the country\'s
crippling violence, a Catholic representative warned that the pope\'s
remarks were being distorted to \'sow a crisis of chaos and enmity
between the one family of Christians and Muslims\'. A statement posted
at mosques in Anbar province, a center of the insurgency, warned that a
previously unknown group would begin killing Iraqi Christians in three
days unless the pope apologized.\"\]

Sunday Mail (UK). \"Pope\'s Comments \'Hurt Muslims\'.\" September 16,
2006. Accessed at:
[[http://www.news.com.au/sundaymail/story/0,,20422069-1702,00.html?from=rss]{.underline}](http://www.news.com.au/sundaymail/story/0,,20422069-1702,00.html?from=rss)
\-- \[Excerpt: \"At the Conference of Australian imams in Sydney today,
keynote speaker Sheik Ibrahim Mogra from the Muslim Council of
Britain\....\"It is very sad that the remarks that he made were made and
have caused a lot of difficulty and genuine pain and hurt across the
world amongst Muslim communities.\"\]

The Guardian. \"Papal Infallibility.\" September 16, 2006. Accessed at:
[[http://www.guardian.co.uk/leaders/story/0,,1873716,00.html]{.underline}](http://www.guardian.co.uk/leaders/story/0,,1873716,00.html)
\-- \[Excerpt: \"There might have been less protest had Benedict a
clearer record in favour of dialogue with Islam. As a cardinal in the
Holy See, he was known to be sceptical of John Paul II\'s pursuit of
conversation. One of his earliest decisions as pope was to move
archbishop Michael Fitzgerald, one of the Catholic Church\'s leading
experts on Islam, and head of its council on interreligious dialogue,
away from the centre of influence in Rome, and send him to Egypt as
papal nuncio. Benedict has spoken publicly of Christianity as the
cornerstone of Europe and against the admission of Turkey into the
EU\.... there is a second strand to this argument. There cannot be
dialogue without rigor and openness. The Muslim world should also take
pains to be thoughtful in its response, and perhaps less quick to take
offence.\"\]

The Hindu. \"\"Pope\'s Statement Not Wrong: Uma Bharti.\" September 16,
2006. Accessed at:
[[http://www.hinduonnet.com/thehindu/holnus/002200609161934.htm]{.underline}](http://www.hinduonnet.com/thehindu/holnus/002200609161934.htm)
\-- \[Excerpt: \"Observing that the Islamic world should be ready to
face healthy criticism, Bhartiya Janashakti Party chief Uma Bharti today
said she did not consider as wrong the comments made by Pope Benedict
XVI on Prophet Mohammed. \'I don\'t consider Pope\'s criticism wrong.
Healthy criticism should be allowed\...Those who run Islam should be
ready to face healthy criticism unless the existence of the community is
threatened.\'\.... Bharti said that \"Islamic fundamentalism has
increased\" because of jehadis. The fundamentalists are responsible for
linking jehad with Islam,\" she said. Muslim leaders should tell the
terrorists not to link jehad with Islam, she said.\"\]

Turkish Daily News (Ankara). \"East-West Crisis Revisited After Pope\'s
Remarks.\" September 16, 2006. Accessed at:
[[http://www.turkishdailynews.com.tr/article.php?enewsid=54295]{.underline}](http://www.turkishdailynews.com.tr/article.php?enewsid=54295)
\-- \[Excerpt: \"\...a growing chorus of criticism in Turkey is
poisoning the atmosphere ahead of the pope\'s visit.\"\]

Vatican. \"Declaration Concerning Pope\'s Regensburg Address.\"
September 15, 2006. Accessed at:
[[http://212.77.1.245/news_services/press/vis/dinamiche/b0_en.htm]{.underline}](http://212.77.1.245/news_services/press/vis/dinamiche/b0_en.htm)
\-- \[Excerpt: \"\"Concerning the reaction of Muslim leaders to certain
passages of the Holy Father\'s address at the University of Regensburg,
it should be noted that what the Holy Father has to heart - and which
emerges from an attentive reading of the text - is a clear and radical
rejection of the religious motivation for violence. \"It was certainly
not the intention of the Holy Father to undertake a comprehensive study
of the jihad and of Muslim ideas on the subject, still less to offend
the sensibilities of Muslim faithful. \"Quite the contrary, what emerges
clearly from the Holy Father\'s discourses is a warning, addressed to
Western culture, to avoid \'the contempt for God and the cynicism that
considers mockery of the sacred to be an exercise of freedom.\' A just
consideration of the religious dimension is, in fact, an essential
premise for fruitful dialogue with the great cultures and religions of
the world. And indeed, in concluding his address in Regensburg, Benedict
XVI affirmed how \'the world\'s profoundly religious cultures see this
exclusion of the divine from the universality of reason as an attack on
their most profound convictions. A reason which is deaf to the divine
and which relegates religion into the realm of subcultures is incapable
of entering into the dialogue of cultures.\' \"What is clear then, is
the Holy Father\'s desire to cultivate an attitude of respect and
dialogue towards other religions and cultures, including, of course,
Islam.\" \]

\(2\) FEMA:

Associated Press. \"Senators Compromising on FEMA Expansion.\" September
16, 2006. At:
[[http://www.bradenton.com/mld/bradenton/news/breaking_news/15536421.htm?template=contentModules/printstory.jsp]{.underline}](http://www.bradenton.com/mld/bradenton/news/breaking_news/15536421.htm?template=contentModules/printstory.jsp)

Hsu, Spencer S. \"Congress Agrees on Expanding FEMA.\" Washington Post,
September 16, 2006. At:
[[http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/09/15/AR2006091501233_pf.html]{.underline}](http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/09/15/AR2006091501233_pf.html)

\[Excerpt: \"The Federal Emergency Management Agency would be expanded
within the Department of Homeland Security, and FEMA\'s chief could
obtain direct access to the president in a crisis, under terms of a
compromise overhaul of the troubled agency announced last night by
congressional negotiators\.... the pact does not clarify whether FEMA
would get more money\.... The compromise now moves to a House-Senate
panel that this month is hammering out a must-pass \$33 billion Homeland
Security spending bill\.... The deal proposes increasing FEMA\'s \$2.4
billion budget by 10 percent a year for three years, Collins\'s
spokeswoman said. It also would increase emergency planning grants, now
at \$185 million, and boost funds for emergency medical and
search-and-rescue teams, now \$30 million and \$20 million,
respectively. But there is no guarantee that budget writers will include
the money\.... Responding to flaws highlighted by Katrina, the deal
would expand FEMA regional offices, reunite preparedness and response
functions severed during the creation of DHS, set qualification
requirements for its director, and protect it from department
reorganizations by making it semi-independent, like the Coast Guard and
Secret Service.\"\]

\(3\) GLOBAL WARMING:

McCarthy, Michael and David Usborne. \"Massive Surge in Disappearance of
Arctic Sea Ice Sparks Global Warning.\" The Independent (UK), September
15, 2006. Accessed at:
[[http://news.independent.co.uk/environment/article1603667.ece]{.underline}](http://news.independent.co.uk/environment/article1603667.ece)

\[Excerpt: \"Arctic meltdown is speeding up\... sea ice is vanishing
faster than ever before\... polar bears face extinction\... and
America\'s top climate scientist warns we only have a decade to save the
planet.\"\]

\(4\) MATERIALS RECEIVED FOR REVIEW:

Disasters: Preparedness and Mitigation in the Americas, Issue 104, July
2006. (Newsletter of the Pan American Health Association, Regional
Office of the World Health Organization. For information, go to:
[[http://www.paho.org/disasters/]{.underline}](http://www.paho.org/disasters/))

Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.
Recovering From Hurricane Katrina: The Next Phase (Hearings, September
14, 2005). Washington DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, 2006.

\(5\) WAR ON TERROR:

Goldenberg, Suzanne. \"Bush Stance on al-Qaida Suspects Is Morally
Wrong, Says Colin Powell.\" The Guardian (UK), 15 Sep 15, 2006. At:
[[http://www.guardian.co.uk/usa/story/0,,1873049,00.html]{.underline}](http://www.guardian.co.uk/usa/story/0,,1873049,00.html)
\-- \[Excerpt: \"The former secretary of state Colin Powell yesterday
repudiated White House plans to allow coercive interrogations of
al-Qaida suspects, saying it would erode the moral basis of the US \"war
on terror\"\.... Mr Powell\...added his voice to those of military
judges who say that America would imperil its own soldiers if it watered
down its compliance with the Geneva convention.\"\]

New York Times. \"Fighting Terror With Fear.\" September 15, 2006.
Accessed at:
[[http://www.iht.com/articles/2006/09/15/opinion/edcongress.php]{.underline}](http://www.iht.com/articles/2006/09/15/opinion/edcongress.php)
\-- \[Excerpt: \"We\'ll find out in November how well the White House\'s
be-very-afraid campaign has been working with voters. We already know
how it\'s working in the U.S. Congress. Stampeded by the fear of looking
weak on terrorism, lawmakers are rushing to pass a bill demanded by
President George W. Bush that would have minimal impact on
anti-terrorist operations but could cause profound damage to justice and
the American way.\"\]

United States Army. Timeline of Terrorism. At:
[[http://www.army.mil/terrorism/]{.underline}](http://www.army.mil/terrorism/)

White House. \"The Rest of the Story: Iraq\'s Links to Al Qaeda.\"
September 15, 2006. Accessed at:
[[http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2006/09/20060915-4.html]{.underline}](http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2006/09/20060915-4.html)

White House. \"Waging and Winning The War On Terror.\" Web site:
[[http://www.whitehouse.gov/infocus/achievement/chap1-nrn.html]{.underline}](http://www.whitehouse.gov/infocus/achievement/chap1-nrn.html)
\-- \[Have not referenced this website for quite some time \-- there are
new items.\]

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