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Defining Documents in American History: The Legacy of 9/11

Table of Contents

Publisher’s Note




Editor’s Introduction




Contributors




Historic Background




The Saud Family and Wahhabi Islam




The D’Arcy Oil Concession




Hussein-McMahon Correspondence




Sykes-Picot Agreement




Balfour Declaration




Charter of the Arab League




CIA Summary of the Overthrow of Premier Mossadeq of Iran




Baghdad Pact




Gamal Abdel Nasser on the Nationalization of the Suez Canal




The Eisenhower Doctrine




Sayyid Qutb on Jihad




Muhammad Qutb on the Origins of Islam




Ayatollah Khomeini on “The Great Satan”




Growing Conflict & 9/11




Documents Relating to the Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan




Memos Concerning a Meeting between Donald Rumsfeld and Saddam Hussein




President George H.W. Bush on the Cessation of the Persian Gulf War




The 1993 World Trade Center Bombing: Report and Analysis




From the “Clash of Civilizations”




Osama bin Laden’s Declaration of Jihad Against the Americans




News Account of the USS Cole Bombing




Memo on the Urgent Need to Address the al-Qaeda Threat




Destruction of the Buddhist Statues at Bamiyan




President George W. Bush’s Statement to the Nation on 9/11




Osama bin Laden’s Video Statement




Excerpts from Knights under the Prophet’s Banner




On Counterterrorism and U.S. Foreign Policy




Public Statement on the Release of the 9/11 Commission Report




War—Its Justifications and Problems




NATO Press Conference with Donald Rumsfeld




Colin Powell on Iraqi Weapons of Mass Destruction




Hans Blix on U.N. Weapons Inspection Efforts in Iraq




George W. Bush’s Address to the Nation on Military Operations in Iraq




From The Crisis of Islam




“Mission to Niger” and the Valerie Plame Affair




Intelligence Report on Iraq’s Programs for Weapons of Mass Destruction




From the Fay Report on the Abu Ghraib Prisoner Abuse Scandal




Declaration of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi at the Execution of Nicholas Berg




The Post-9/11 World




Manning-Lamo Chat Logs




President Obama’s Remarks on the Killing of Osama bin Laden




Snowden E-mail




U.N. Report on the Alleged Use of Chemical Weapons in the Ghouta Area of Damascus on 21 August 2013




Islamic State—Proclamation of the Caliphate




Remarks by Abdullah II of Jordan before the U.N. General Assembly




Hassan Rouhani’s Address before the U.N. General Assembly




Benjamin Netanyahu: Speech before the U.N. General Assembly




Donald Trump’s Call for a “Muslim Ban”




Appendixes




Time Line of 9/11




Web Resources




Bibliography