world and give hope to our children and generations to come.
Ultimately, our fight against terrorism will help foster an
international environment where our democratic interests are secure and
the values of liberty are respected around the world.

THE NATURE OF THE TERRORIST THREAT TODAY

"_We have seen their kind before. They are the heirs of all the
murderous ideologies of the 20th century. By sacrificing
human life to serve their radical visions--by abandoning
every value except the will to power--they follow
in the path of fascism, and Nazism, and totalitarianism.
And they will follow that path all the way, to where it ends:
in history's unmarked grave of discarded lies._"

PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH

ADDRESS TO A JOINT SESSION OF CONGRESS
AND THE AMERICAN PEOPLE

SEPTEMBER 20, 2001

Americans know that terrorism did not begin on September 11, 2001.
Regrettably, its history is long and all too familiar. The first major
terrorist attack on New York City's financial district, for instance,
did not occur on September 11, or even with the 1993 truck bombing of
the World Trade Center. It occurred September 16, 1920, when anarchists
exploded a horse cart filled with dynamite near the intersections of
Wall and Broad Streets, taking 40 lives and wounding about 300 others.
Starting with the assassination of President William McKinley in 1901
and continuing with the bombings of the U.S. embassies in Tanzania and
Kenya in 1998 and the USS Cole in Yemen in 2000, American history in
the 20th century was punctuated by terrorism.

Americans also understand that we are not alone in the struggle against
terror. Terrorists have left their mark in some way upon every country
in the world. Citizens from some 90 countries died in the attacks of
September 11. For decades, the United States and our friends abroad
have waged the long struggle against the terrorist menace. We have
learned much from these efforts.

Even as we experience success in the war on terrorism, new enemies may
emerge. Thus, the United States will confront the threat of terrorism
for the foreseeable future. Consequently, we must continue to take
aggressive action to uncover individuals and groups engaged in
terrorist activity, by analyzing the common characteristics of
terrorists in order to understand where our enemies are weak and where
they are strong.

[Illustration: _Figure 1_: The Structure of Terror]

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