Businesses will look at Morgan Stanley's experience-occupying much of the World Trade Center-and think again about the virtues of further decentralization of operations. ... Aside from a defiant impulse to rebuild the World Trade Center itself, perhaps we will want smaller buildings-that are easier to evacuate and not as self-promotingly visible. ... And there will be much to do in international law-how civilized nations may justly-and effectively-respond when invisible enemies wage "war" upon us. ...

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John Howard, the administrator of the World Trade Center Health Program, federal health authorities announced that they were adding 58 types of cancer to the list of illnesses covered by the poisonous toxins caused by the aftermath of the September 11 attacks just days before the 11th anniversary. ... The act was named after James Zadroga, a New York police officer who died of a respiratory disease caused by toxic chemicals after responding to the World Trade Center attacks (CNN). ... Despite the delayed air samples, the advisory committee determined that 15 compounds in the air were classif...

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Information divulged in the trial may provide critical intelligence to international terrorist organizations and compromise US security interests to include the safety of US persons and the defense of our country and its allies. ... High profile international terrorists tried in the US court system will and have generated great international publicity, which as we know, is exactly what terrorist organizations use to recruit their forces and gain international recognition for their cause. ... While supporters of the civilian trials proclaim that "due process " and justice must be afforded to al...

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International terrorism in its current form began in 1968. ... Modern technology has now made terrorism an efficient, convenient, and general discrete weapon for attacking state interests in the international realm. ... First, terrorists operate at an international level, no longer concentrating on a particular region or a country. ... This trend towards larger attacks is represented by a 25-year low in international terrorism in 1996, with reported incidents down from a peak of 665 in 1987 to 296 in 1996. ... Whether domestic or international in nature, terrorism is having an ever-increasing ...

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On this date, four flights were hijacked within the United States and two were flown into the World Trade Centers, one was flown into the Pentagon, and the last one crashed in Pittsburg. ... On September 28th, 2001, seventeen days after the terrible events that occurred in the United States, the United Nations Security Council adopted resolution 1373 based on Article VII of the United Nations Charter which deals with international peace and security. ... They are 49/60 of 1994, which is the declaration on measures to eliminate international terrorism, and 51/210 of 1996, which reaffirms 49/6...

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Thesis: The prior terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center, and the Pentagon, have many Americans searching to understand the source of such intense hatred. ... However, in recent years some governments have also taken some positive, albeit limited, steps towards improving human, including enacting laws which provide greater safeguards, ratifying international human rights treaties, and applying recommendations by human rights organizations, and promoting human rights principles. ... As a consequence, the Egyptian government controls NGO, and Human Rights Organization monetary gain pro...

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It was only after the World Trade Centre attack in 1993 that they realized the magnitude of foreign terrorism (Copeland, 2007). ... Its standards are accepted around the world as customary international law (National Commission on Terrorist Attacks upon the United States, 2004). ...

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It is clear that there existed missed opportunity based on the signs the CIA was receiving: the first World Trade Center bombing eight years earlier, the African embassy bombings in 1998, the USS Cole attack in Yemen in 2000, and the recent HUMINT (human intelligence) whisperings ofsomething big? ... No wonder, Woodward suggests, that Powell was placed in charge of assembling the international coalition after the attacks, which successfully removed him out of the country for large periods of time and out of the public eye. ...

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On September 11, 2001 the single worst terrorist attack any country has suffered in modern times occurred in New York City, at the World Trade Center. 6,000 people were killed and the minds and spirit of all Americans were changed forever. ... Terrorism is an international problem worldwide and all nations are affected, directly or indirectly. ... This makes them valuable assets to international terrorist organizations. ...

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In addition, we have seen a sharp decline in American prestige internationally, serious erosion of our civil liberties, and we have lived for more than a decade in a state of constant vigilance and surveillance all in the name of fighting terror. ...

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