**September 11, 2006 FEMA Emergency Management Higher Education Project
Activity Report**

\(1\) CLASH OF CIVILIZATIONS:

Kay, Jonathan. \"Sept. 11, 2001, Nov 1, 1922, Oct 2, 1187, Nov 27, 1095,
Oct 10, 732, etc.\" PoliticalMavens.com, September 11, 2006. Accessed
at:
[[http://politicalmavens.com/index.php/2006/09/10/sept-11-2001-nov-1-1922-oct-2-1187-nov-27-1095-oct-10-732-etc/]{.underline}](http://politicalmavens.com/index.php/2006/09/10/sept-11-2001-nov-1-1922-oct-2-1187-nov-27-1095-oct-10-732-etc/)

\[Excerpt: \"There are many ways to conceive September 11, 2001. On a
personal level, it was a tragedy for the 2,973 known victims and their
family members. And on a military level, it represented the first blow
in a war against terrorism that still rages strong in Afghanistan and
Iraq. But five years after the fact, its status as a historical
watershed also has become clear: September 11, 2001 represents one of
the most significant dates in the 14-century long history of conflict
between Islamic civilization and its Western counterpart.\"\]

\(2\) FEMA REGION VI HISTORICAL BLACK COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES
INITIATIVE:

Talked with Ross Richardson at FEMA Region VI today concerning the FEMA
EM HiEd Project. He is working with Southern University in Baton Rouge,
in its efforts to work with the other 30 HBCU\'s in Region VI, to spread
the word about hazards, disasters and what to do about them. Mr.
Richardson wanted to know how the HBCU\'s could access EMI training and
education courses and also asked about HBCU attendance at EMI training
courses.

\(3\) HOMELAND SECURITY:

Ervin, Clark Kent. Qaeda Set The Bar High.\" New York Times, September
10, 2006. Accessed at:
[[http://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/10/opinion/10ervin.html]{.underline}](http://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/10/opinion/10ervin.html)

\[Excerpt: \"So why haven\'t we been attacked in five years?
Terrorists - especially those directed by or affiliated with Al Qaeda -
are committed to carrying out spectacular attacks that maximize death,
injury, economic damage and political symbolism\.... For the future, we
must take a hard look at how to improve the Department of Homeland
Security, which has earned its reputation as the most dysfunctional
agency in all of government. It has played little role in keeping us
safe since 9/11\.... The good news\...is that we are unlikely to see
many future attempts to strike our homeland. The bad news is that the
few we will see are likely to be giant in scale, and the likelihood that
the Department of Homeland Security will be able to stop them is
small.\"\]

Hess, David. \"Chertoff Offers Progress Report on Anti-Terrorism
Efforts.\" Congress Daily, September 8, 2006. At:
[[http://www.govexec.com/story_page.cfm?articleid=34964&dcn=e_gvet]{.underline}](http://www.govexec.com/story_page.cfm?articleid=34964&dcn=e_gvet)

\[Note: Based on Secretary Chertoff\'s speech at Georgetown University
last week, noted then herein.\]

Islam, Ranty. \"Competition Heats Up for Homeland Security Dollars.\"
Christian Science Monitor, September 11, 2006. Accessed at:
[[http://www.csmonitor.com/2006/0911/p13s01-wmgn.htm]{.underline}](http://www.csmonitor.com/2006/0911/p13s01-wmgn.htm)

\(4\) KATRINA:

Olsen, Florence. \"5 Lessons From Katrina.\" Federal Computer Week,
September 11, 2006. Accessed at:
[[http://www.fcw.com/article95957-09-11-06-Print]{.underline}](http://www.fcw.com/article95957-09-11-06-Print)

\[Excerpt: \"\"If there is one lesson to take from Hurricane Katrina,
it\'s that effective government is absolutely essential\... Based on
lessons learned from Katrina relief operations, the government should
seek to hire an adequate number of effective workers, better coordinate
with state and local governments and private groups, study past
successes and failures, and appoint chief management officers who have
five-year mandates to transform agencies\' core workforce, information
technology and financial management functions. The fifth lesson is that
the government needs to invest the time, money and intellectual capital
necessary to implement those four recommendations.\"\]

\(5\) MITIGATION:

Chan, Sewell. \"9/11 Has Spurred Only Modest Changes in New York City
and National Building Codes.\" New York Times, September 9, 2006.
Accessed at:
[[http://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/09/nyregion/09codes.html?\_r=1&adxnnl=1&oref=slogin&adxnnlx=1157774506-H6L+cEg+NpljsAQAImWktw]{.underline}](http://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/09/nyregion/09codes.html?_r=1&adxnnl=1&oref=slogin&adxnnlx=1157774506-H6L+cEg+NpljsAQAImWktw)

Schleifstein, Mark. \"Plan For Rebuilding Coast To Be Ready in
November.\" New Orleans Times-Picayune, September 9, 2006. Accessed at:

[[http://www.nola.com/news/t-p/capital/index.ssf?/base/news-4/1157786109149630.xml&coll=1]{.underline}](http://www.nola.com/news/t-p/capital/index.ssf?/base/news-4/1157786109149630.xml&coll=1)

\(6\) 9/11:

Greenfield, Heather. \"Federal Report Responds to Internet\'s 9/11
Theories.\" National Journal, September 8, 2006. At:
[[http://www.govexec.com/story_page.cfm?articleid=34965&dcn=e_gvet]{.underline}](http://www.govexec.com/story_page.cfm?articleid=34965&dcn=e_gvet)

Los Angeles Times. \"9/11/06 - Five Years Later, Some Complacency Has
Returned, But With the New Knowledge That Our Easily Distracted Openness
is Also a Strength.\" September 11, 2006. At:
[[http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/editorials/la-ed-anniversary11sep11,0,4359213,print.story]{.underline}](http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/editorials/la-ed-anniversary11sep11,0,4359213,print.story)

\[Excerpt: \"What died on 9/11 was the illusion that history had ended.
The halcyon Clinton years were a deceptive interlude between the fall of
communism and the collapse of the twin towers.\"\]

\(7\) PANDEMIC:

McNeil, Donald G. Jr. \"Immediate Treatment Needed for Bird Flu Cases,
Study Says.\" New York Times, September 11, 2006. Accessed at:
[[http://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/11/world/11flu.html]{.underline}](http://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/11/world/11flu.html)

\[Excerpt: \"Avian flu kills in much the same way the global flu
pandemic of 1918 did, by drowning victims in fluid produced in their own
lungs, a new study has found. The study also suggests that immediate
treatment with antiviral drugs is crucial, because the virus reproduces
so quickly that, if not suppressed within the first 48 hours, it tends
to push victims into a rapid decline to death.\"\]

Schmid, Randolph E. \"Study Adds Details on Bird Flu, Humans.\"
Associated Press, September 10, 2006. Accessed at:
[[http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060910/ap_on_he_me/bird_flu_humans&printer=1]{.underline}](http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060910/ap_on_he_me/bird_flu_humans&printer=1)

\[Excerpt: \"When bird flu infects people, the virus is more
concentrated in the throat than the nose, the opposite of human flu.
This finding may help doctors more quickly diagnose the bird flu in
people.\"\]

\(8\) PREPAREDNESS \-- NATIONAL CAPITAL REGION:

Sheridan, Mary Beth. \"Emergency Readiness Questioned - After Scrutiny,
Homeland Security Adds Funds, Personnel.\" Washington Post, September
11, 2006. Accessed at:
[[http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/09/10/AR2006091001060.html]{.underline}](http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/09/10/AR2006091001060.html)

\(9\) WAR ON TERROR:

Abramowitz, Michael. \"War\'s Critics Abetting Terrorists, Cheney
Says.\" Washington Post, 11Sep06.
[[http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/09/10/AR2006091000427.html]{.underline}](http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/09/10/AR2006091000427.html)

Agence France-Presse. \"Global Media Abhors US Response to 9/11.\"
September 11, 2006. Accessed at:
[[http://www.commondreams.org/cgi-bin/print.cgi?file=/headlines06/0911-01.htm]{.underline}](http://www.commondreams.org/cgi-bin/print.cgi?file=/headlines06/0911-01.htm)

\[Excerpt: \"Newspapers across the world have strongly criticized the US
response to September 11, accusing the Bush administration of bungling
its \"war on terror\" and squandering global goodwill by invading
Iraq\.... Many Arab newspapers said the US campaign and the invasion of
Iraq had pushed the world closer to a clash of civilisations between the
West and the Muslim world\.... Egypt\'s semi-official Al-Ahram compared
Bush to the mastermind of the attacks Al-Qaeda leader Osama Bin Laden.
\'Five years ago, the history of the world changed twice, once in the
hands of Bin Laden and his gang, and once in the hands of Bin Bush and
his administration\'.\"\]

Behn, Sharon. \"Afghan Envoy Seeks Military, Financial Aid.\" Washington
Times, September 11, 2006. Accessed at:
[[http://www.washingtontimes.com/world/20060911-123952-4252r.htm]{.underline}](http://www.washingtontimes.com/world/20060911-123952-4252r.htm)

\[Excerpt: \"We will not be able to stabilize the country if we don\'t
build up the domestic security forces and have development in the
countryside,\" Mr. Jawad said. \"Had we invested more in development, we
would have had less security problems today.\"\]

Brooks, Rosa. \"All The Wrong Places.\" Los Angeles Times, September 10,
2006. Accessed at:
[[http://www.calendarlive.com/books/bookreview/cl-bk-brooks10sep10,0,2373263.story?coll=cl-bookreview]{.underline}](http://www.calendarlive.com/books/bookreview/cl-bk-brooks10sep10,0,2373263.story?coll=cl-bookreview)

\[Excerpt: \"IN June 2005, Karl Rove came up with an effective new quip:
Liberals, he declared, wanted to respond to terrorism by offering
\"therapy.\" In the White House advisor\'s view, \"Conservatives saw
what happened to us on 9/11 and said: we will defeat our enemies.
Liberals saw what happened to us and said: we must understand our
enemies.\" Today, it\'s hard to regard Rove\'s remark with anything but
heartsick disgust. Despite the five years that have passed since the
Sept. 11 attacks, we\'re nowhere near defeating our enemies - in large
part because we\'ve never made the slightest effort to understand
them.\" Article goes on to review three new books related to war on
terror: Louise Richardson\'s book \"What Terrorists Want: Understanding
the Enemy, Containing the Threat;\" Thomas Kean and Lee Hamilton\'s book
\"Without Precedent: The Inside Story of the 9/11 Commission;\" and
Richard Posner\'s \"Not a Suicide Pact: The Constitution in a Time of
National Emergency.\"\]

Cella, Paul J. \"The Victory of September 11, 1565.\" TCSDaily.com,
September 11, 2006. Accessed at:
[[http://www.tcsdaily.com/article.aspx?id=091106C]{.underline}](http://www.tcsdaily.com/article.aspx?id=091106C)

\[Excerpt: \"The idea of religious war is not something modern man ever
really contemplates; he only shudders at it. But this, for our enemies
and thus inevitably also for us, is a religious war, whether or not we
in the secular world of the West will take it seriously. If men choose
to make war against you on religious grounds, you cannot change the fact
of this religious war by wishing it weren\'t so. This one, moreover, has
been a very long war, waged over souls and for the souls of whole
nations; therefore it has been slow and erratically conducted. Rare is
the war that occupies the leaders of more than one generation of men;
rarer still is the war that occupies leaders of more than one age of
men. This one has occupied medieval men, renaissance men, modern men,
and it will surely implicate postmodern men. It began in what we call
the Dark Age and has not yet ended; and we would do well not to sneer at
a war that has gazed with patient, jaded eyes on the Battle of Tours,
the fall of Constantinople and the Siege of Vienna; the victory of the
Kingdom of Jerusalem, and her defeat; the break up of Catholic Europe
and the decay of Protestantism; and the rise and fall of Feudalism,
Monarchy, Aristocracy, and Democracy, each in turn.\"\]

Daalder, Ivo H. \"Five Years After 9/11 - A Balance Sheet.\" Brookings
Institution, September 6, 2006. Accessed at:
[[http://www.brookings.edu/views/op-ed/daalder/blog20060906.htm]{.underline}](http://www.brookings.edu/views/op-ed/daalder/blog20060906.htm)

\[Excerpt: \"The biggest winner in the global conflict that followed the
strikes against the World Trade Center and Pentagon is Islamist
jihadism\.... Another group of winners are states like Iran, North
Korea, and Pakistan\.... What about the losers? Top among them must be
Osama bin Laden and the Al Qaeda organization he created and led\....
The biggest loser in the last five years\...trust in America - in its
power, purpose, and principles - has been eroded not just among its foes
but, more importantly, among its friends.\"\]

Davidson, Amy. \"The World After 9/11.\" New Yorker, September 4, 2006.
Accessed at:
[[http://www.newyorker.com/online/content/articles/060911on_onlineonly02]{.underline}](http://www.newyorker.com/online/content/articles/060911on_onlineonly02)

\[Amy Davidson talks to Seymour M. Hersh, Jon Lee Anderson, and George
Packer about Iraq, Afghanistan, the war on terror, and whether America
is stronger now. A Seymour Hersh excerpt: \"The other possibility was
that the nineteen hijackers were the equivalent of a pickup basketball
team that made it to the Final Four. His guess was the latter. I think
that\'s true.\" (Discussing a conversation he had with a CIA
\"official\" shortly after 9/11.)\]

\[Jon Lee Anderson excerpt: \"I think that Al Qaeda achieved in the
attacks of 9/11 a blow so dramatic that it seemed to the Islamists to
strip away the defenses and the perceived invincibility of the world\'s
greatest superpower, and it became possible, in a psychological and even
tactical way, for others to try to emulate it. So whether or not Al
Qaeda is operationally as potent as it was around 9/11 doesn\'t
matter.\"\]

George Packer excerpt: \"\...we do not truly compete for hearts and
minds, because we\'re not willing to pony up to invest, to show that
America isn\'t only about war, or being crusading Christians\...\" Went
on to contrast Hezbollah in Lebanon with U.S. in Afghanistan after
large-scale ground operations ended: \"Immediately following the
ceasefire, after four weeks of bombing, Hezbollah announced that it
would pay for the reconstruction of homes for the tens of thousands of
people whose homes had been destroyed in the Israeli bombardment-for the
homes, a year\'s worth of rent, and new furniture-and would itself
rebuild, with funds from Iran, no doubt. Hezbollah effectively captured
people\'s loyalties\.... Following the American police action in
Afghanistan, to chase the Taliban into the hills, almost nothing was
done to rebuild the country.\"\]

Fischer, Joschka. \"Don\'t Forget Our Values.\" New York Times (Op-Ed by
German Foreign Minister from 1998-2005). 10 Sep 2006. At:
[[http://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/10/opinion/10fisher.html]{.underline}](http://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/10/opinion/10fisher.html)

\[Excerpt: \"\...the question is, were the terrorists successful? The
answer is mixed. In the aftermath of 9/11, the world was united with
America. Even in Arab and Muslim countries, the sense of shock and
feelings of solidarity with America far outweighed any sympathies with
the terrorists\.... Immediately after 9/11, Al Qaeda seemed to be losing
its battle with America and the West. Unfortunately, that changed when
America invaded Iraq. The fight against the jihadists will not be
decided simply on the battlefield; it will also be decided in the sphere
of international legitimacy. We know that Islamic extremists celebrate
death through martyrdom, and the killing of innocents. But what are we
in the West fighting for? We fight for our values: for our freedom, for
democracy, for the rule of law, the equality of all human beings and for
peace. In this context, Guantánamo Bay, Abu Ghraib and the situation in
Iraq could hardly be called successes. Against the new totalitarian
challenge of Islamic extremism, we have to defend our values; and this
means sticking to the values of our democratic societies, even under
fire.\"\]

Garamone, Jim. \"Enormous Damage Done to al Qaeda Since 9/11, Cheney
Says.\" American Forces Press Service, September 10, 2006. At:
[[http://www.defenselink.mil/News/NewsArticle.aspx?ID=768]{.underline}](http://www.defenselink.mil/News/NewsArticle.aspx?ID=768)

Goldsmith, Jack L. and Adrian Vermeule. \"How War Can Bring Peace.\" New
York Times, September 10, 2006. Accessed at:
[[http://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/10/opinion/10goldsmith.html]{.underline}](http://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/10/opinion/10goldsmith.html)

\[Excerpt: \"OFFENSIVE action abroad has protected the homeland. Our
military presence in Afghanistan and our aggressive policies around the
globe have seriously disrupted the enemy\.... Some maintain that such
offensive action feeds resentment and spawns more terrorism. But if
aggression can create resentment, passivity and defensiveness can
inspire contempt. Our weak responses to Qaeda attacks on the Khobar
Towers, the African embassies and the destroyer Cole, and our withdrawal
from Somalia, emboldened the enemy and allowed it to organize and train
for the 9/11 attacks.\"\]

Grier, Peter. \"Five Years After 9/11: A Shifted view Of The World.\"
Christian Science Monitor, September 11, 2006. Accessed at:
[[http://www.csmonitor.com/2006/0911/p01s02-usgn.html]{.underline}](http://www.csmonitor.com/2006/0911/p01s02-usgn.html)

\[Excerpt: \"Yet on one thing Muslims appear to agree: nearly 90 percent
of the public in Islamic countries view the US as the primary security
threat to their country\...\"\]

Hirsh, Michael. \"Where\'s the Clarity? Five Years After 9/11, Little of
Bush\'s \'War on Terror\' Rhetoric is Making Sense.\" Newsweek,
September 8, 2006. Accessed at:
[[http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/14717641/site/newsweek/]{.underline}](http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/14717641/site/newsweek/)

\[Excerpt: \"\...year by year, the so-called GWOT (global war on
terrorism) has become less and less clear in its direction and goals-and
less and less like any previous war. What began as a crystal-clear fight
against a small, self-contained group of murderers has become a kind of
murky, open-ended World War III in which the identity of the enemy is
less certain and our allies seem to grow less reliable.\"\]

Jenkins, Brian Michael. \"State of Terrorism Address\" (What would Osama
bin Laden say to jihadists five years later?). Los Angeles Times,
September 11, 2006. Accessed at:
[[http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/la-op-jenkins11sep11,0,7578142.story?track=tottext]{.underline}](http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/la-op-jenkins11sep11,0,7578142.story?track=tottext)

\[Jenkins Excerpt: \"My purpose here is not to parrot Al Qaeda
propaganda, but to better understand why it has been so difficult to
dent the determination of the jihadists\.... (Imagined bin Laden
excerpt: \"It has been 10 years since we declared war on the United
States, 15 since we first assisted attacks on the United States in Yemen
and Somalia, 18 years since the creation of Al Qaeda, and a quarter of a
century since I first went to Afghanistan to participate in the first
truly global jihad, against the Soviet Union. For Americans, this is a
long time. For us, it is a mere instant in a conflict that began
centuries ago and will last until Judgment Day.\"\]

Jordan, Lara Jakes. \"Experts: U.S. Likely To Be Hit Again.\" Associated
Press, September 10, 2006. Accessed at:
[[http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060910/ap_on_re_us/sept11_another_attack;\_ylt=Aioe_QZOVlnLkNvy1kgxYq6s0NUE;\_ylu=X3oDMTA3MjBwMWtkBHNlYwM3MTg]{.underline}](http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060910/ap_on_re_us/sept11_another_attack;_ylt=Aioe_QZOVlnLkNvy1kgxYq6s0NUE;_ylu=X3oDMTA3MjBwMWtkBHNlYwM3MTg)-

\[Excerpt: \"The threat of terrorism against the United States remains
chillingly lethal five years after 9/11, and officials predict another
massive attack is not a matter of if - but when.\" (Note: Compare the
tone of this article with the NYT piece by Shane and Bergman.)\]

Mahle, Melissa Boyle. \"We Can\'t Kill An Ideology.\" New York Times,
September 10, 2006. Accessed at:
[[http://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/10/opinion/10mahle.html]{.underline}](http://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/10/opinion/10mahle.html)

\[Excerpt: \"Al Qaeda is attacking when and where it chooses\.... It has
not hit America because it has chosen not to. Whether it lacks
on-the-ground capacity for a spectacular attack, is still in the
planning stages or is busy elsewhere is under debate within our
intelligence community. The point is that five years out, Al Qaeda is as
dangerous as, if not more than, it was on 9/11\.... (On U.S. successes)
these are not death blows - because you cannot decapitate an ideology.
Although the majority of Muslims reject the political vision of a
Taliban-style Islamic caliphate, many agree with Al Qaeda that the
Western-imposed political order is the source of their political and
economic woes. Moreover, militant resistance to the current order is
gaining acceptance and prestige, aptly demonstrated by the groundswell
of popular support for Hamas and Hezbollah in the Muslim world. During
the last five years, our priority has been to beef up defenses and take
the war to the terrorists. It\'s time to start discrediting Al Qaeda\'s
ideology and offering Muslims nonviolent alternatives. The first step is
to acknowledge that their grievances are legitimate and center on issues
of dignity, economic disparity, border disputes and power alignment. The
second is to acknowledge that our current approach is only helping Al
Qaeda go mainstream.\" (Mahle is a former CIA Operations Officer.\]

Maykuth, Andrew. \"U.S. Strategy May Be Helping Taliban, Expert Says.\"
Philadelphia Inquirer, September 10, 2006. Accessed at:
[[http://www.charlotte.com/mld/charlotte/news/world/15486565.htm]{.underline}](http://www.charlotte.com/mld/charlotte/news/world/15486565.htm)

\[Excerpt: \"Rubin, author of the 1995 book \"The Fragmentation of
Afghanistan\" who has made more than 20 trips to Afghanistan since 2001,
placed much of the blame on the Bush administration\'s focus on
destroying terrorists rather than addressing the conditions under which
terrorists thrive. \'They didn\'t understand that Afghanistan was not
just a terrorist base\',\.... \"Kabul city now has less electricity than
it did during Soviet occupation.\"\]

Randall, David and Emily Gosden. \"62,006 - The Number Killed in the
\'War on Terror\'.\" The Independent (UK), 10Sep2006. At:
[[http://news.independent.co.uk/world/politics/article1433404.ece]{.underline}](http://news.independent.co.uk/world/politics/article1433404.ece)

\[Excerpt: The \"war on terror\" - and by terrorists - has directly
killed a minimum of 62,006 people, created 4.5 million refugees and cost
the US more than the sum needed to pay off the debts of every poor
nation on earth.\"\]

Rashid, Ahmed. \"Losing the War on Terror\" (Why Militants Are Beating
Technology Five Years After Sept. 11.\" Washington Post, September 11,
2006. Accessed at:
[[http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/09/10/AR2006091001145.html]{.underline}](http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/09/10/AR2006091001145.html)

\[Excerpt: \"In the five years since Sept. 11, the tactics and strategy
of Islamic extremists fighting U.S. or NATO forces have improved
dramatically. To a degree they could not approach five years ago, the
extremists are successfully facing off against the overwhelming
technological apparatus that modern armies can bring to bear against
guerrillas. Islamic extremists are winning the war by not losing, and
they are steadily expanding to create new battlefronts\.... If this is
indeed a long war, as the Bush administration says, then the United
States has almost certainly lost the first phase\.... As al-Qaeda and
its allies prepare to spread their global jihad to Central Asia, the
Caucasus and other parts of the Middle East, they will carry with them
the accumulated experience and lessons of the past five years. The West
and its regional allies are not prepared to match them.\"\]

Rifkin, Ira. \"On 9/11, An Inter-Faith Reality Check.\" Jewish World
Review, September 11, 2006. Accessed at:
[[http://www.jewishworldreview.com/0906/911_reality_check.php3]{.underline}](http://www.jewishworldreview.com/0906/911_reality_check.php3)

\[Excerpt: \"He polished the prose of Muslim leaders so their views
would be marketable. He invited them home to break bread. He even
attacked his co-religionists in print for not being more realistic. No
more.\"\]

Rumsfeld, Donald H. \"Commentary: A Force For Good.\" American Forces
Information Service, September 11, 2006. Accessed at:
[[http://www.defenselink.mil/News/NewsArticle.aspx?ID=787]{.underline}](http://www.defenselink.mil/News/NewsArticle.aspx?ID=787)

\[Excerpt: \"This enemy has made its immediate strategy clear in public
announcements and in captured documents: to undermine the Coalition
effort in Iraq, drive our forces out, and then use that nation as a base
from which to destabilize the surrounding nations. They seek to extend a
hoped-for victory in Iraq to a broad part of the Middle East and even
parts of Europe and Asia \-- to restore an ancient caliphate\... We
cannot allow the world to forget that America, though imperfect, is a
force for good in the world.\"\]

Shane, Scott and Lowell Bergman. \"Adding Up the Ounces of Prevention.\"
New York Times, September 10, 2006. At:
[[http://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/10/weekinreview/10shane.html?ref=us]{.underline}](http://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/10/weekinreview/10shane.html?ref=us)

\[Excerpt: \"There is a consensus among counterterrorism officials and
independent experts that the government\'s actions over the last five
years - from the dismantling of camps run by Al Qaeda and the decimation
of its leadership, to the tightening of visa and border controls, to the
scores of terrorism-related prosecutions - have made the country a
harder target. The Age of Terror, at least inside the United States, has
morphed into the Age of the Foiled Plot. But this very success has led
to a new debate. The government says the record vindicates its
prevention strategy - to intervene long before an attack is imminent.
Its critics assert that officials have exaggerated the threat posed by
some accused plotters, painting hapless misfits as Qaeda operatives.\"\]

Silber, Kenneth. \"Who\'s Going to Win?\" TCSDaily, September 11, 2006.
Accessed at:
[[http://www.tcsdaily.com/article.aspx?id=091106A]{.underline}](http://www.tcsdaily.com/article.aspx?id=091106A)

\[\"\...consider some of the fundamental obstacles that stand between
the terrorists and victory..\"\]

Stern, Jessica. \"Keep American Muslims on Our Side.\" New York Times,
September 10, 2006. Accessed at:
[[http://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/10/opinion/10stern.html]{.underline}](http://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/10/opinion/10stern.html)

The Independent (UK). \"The Bitter Legacy of 9/11.\" September 11, 2006.
Accessed at:
[[http://news.independent.co.uk/world/politics/article1466758.ece]{.underline}](http://news.independent.co.uk/world/politics/article1466758.ece)

The Independent. \"The World in 2031: How September 11 Could Shape Our
Future,\" September 11, 2006. Accessed at:
[[http://news.independent.co.uk/world/americas/article1444566.ece]{.underline}](http://news.independent.co.uk/world/americas/article1444566.ece)

\[Excerpt: \"Last week, the Harvard academic Niall Ferguson offered an
optimistic prediction of how our world could look, 30 years after the
September 11 attacks. But is the future really so rosy? Will our society
and way of life survive the traumas of war, terrorism and climate
change? Here, three leading historians look ahead - to a time we can
only imagine.\" (Paul Kennedy of Yale, Michael Clarke of King\'s College
London, and Lisa Jardine, University of London.)\]

Tierney, John. \"Waiting for Al Qaeda\" (The terrorist threat is still
small - it\'s the terrorism industry that got bigger). New York Times, 9
Sep 2006. At:
[[http://mparent7777.livejournal.com/12181851.html]{.underline}](http://mparent7777.livejournal.com/12181851.html)

\[Excerpt: \"In his (John Mueller) forthcoming book, \"Overblown,\" he
argues that the risk of terrorism didn\'t increase after Sept. 11 - if
anything, it declined because of a backlash against Al Qaeda, making it
a smaller and less capable threat than before. But the terrorism
industry has been too busy hyping Sept. 11 and several other attacks to
notice.\"\]

Walker, Martin. \"Threat Assessment.\" New York Times, September 10,
2006. Accessed at:
[[http://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/10/books/review/Walker.t.html?\_r=1&ref=review&oref=slogin]{.underline}](http://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/10/books/review/Walker.t.html?_r=1&ref=review&oref=slogin)

\[Excerpt: \"Karl Rove\'s observation that virile conservatives march
forth to defeat their terrorist enemies while epicene liberals seek to
understand them was memorable for its partisan venom. Yet the fact is,
without making a thorough effort to comprehend the motives, fears and
capabilities of Al Qaeda\'s militants, we can hardly hope to defeat
them.\" Most of article concerns Louise Richardson\'s recent book \"What
Terrorists Want: Understanding the Enemy, Containing the Threat.\"
Walker then writes: \"\...Al Qaeda is commonly seen as a nihilist group
with no negotiable objectives; with an ideology that embraces and
glorifies suicide bombings; as so many mad dogs who can only be hunted
down and killed. Richardson points out that this is a dangerous
misconception. Al Qaeda is neither unique in its organization nor
unprecedented in its scale and reach, or in its readiness to inflict
mass casualties.\"\]

Whitaker, Raymond. \"9/11 - A Bloody Legacy.\" The Independent (UK),
September 10, 2006. Accessed at:
[[http://news.independent.co.uk/world/politics/article1433402.ece]{.underline}](http://news.independent.co.uk/world/politics/article1433402.ece)

\[Excerpt: \"The \'war on terror\', which began with the attacks on the
US, is five years old. It has killed tens of thousands and drawn British
troops into conflicts around the world - but in Afghanistan, where the
first victory was won, all the gains are in danger of slipping away.\"\]

White House. \"Interview of the Vice President by Tim Russert, NBC News,
Meet the Press.\" September 10, 2006, 15 pages. At:
[[http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2006/09/20060910.html]{.underline}](http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2006/09/20060910.html)

\(10\) WAR ON TERROR \-- IRAQ:

Garamone, Jim. \"Cheney Says U.S. Right to Overthrow Saddam.\" American
Forces Press Service, September 10, 2006. Accessed at:
[[http://www.defenselink.mil/News/NewsArticle.aspx?ID=767]{.underline}](http://www.defenselink.mil/News/NewsArticle.aspx?ID=767)

Ricks, Thomas E. \"Situation Called Dire in West Iraq - Anbar Is Lost
Politically, Marine Analyst Says.\" Washington Post, September 11, 2006.
Accessed at:

[[http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/09/10/AR2006091001204_pf.html]{.underline}](http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/09/10/AR2006091001204_pf.html)

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