Machine generated contents note: 1. Overview: The Rise of Osama bin Laden and Global Terrorism

2. The 9/11 Attacks

3. Operation Enduring Freedom and the Invasion of Afghanistan

4. Civil Liberties and the War on Terror

5. Operation Iraqi Freedom

6. The Global War on Terror

7. The Insurgency in Iraq

8. The Insurgency in Afghanistan

9.U.S. Politics, the War on Terror, and Iraq

10. The Obama Presidency and the War on Terror

Chronology

Biographies

Ayad Allawi

Osama bin Laden

Tony Blair

George W. Bush

Richard B. "Dick" Cheney

Jacques Chirac

Hillary R. Clinton

Muammar Gaddafi

Robert M. Gates

Rudolph W.L. "Rudy" Giuliani

John Dennis Hastert

Gulbuddin Hekmatyar

Saddam Hussein

Hamid Karzai

John F. Kerry

Nouri al-Maliki

John S. McCain

Addison Mitchell "Mitch" McConnell

Khalid Sheikh Mohammad

Pervez Musharraf

Barack H. Obama

Daniel Pearl

Nancy Pelosi

Colin Powell

Condoleezza Rice

Thomas J. Ridge

Donald H. Rumsfeld

Gerhard F. Schroder

George J. Tenet

Paul D. Wolfowitz

Abu Musab al Zarqawi

Primary Documents

1. The Invasion of Kuwait and UN Security Council Resolutions 660 and 678 (1990)

2. President Clinton's Speech on Iraq and WMD Inspections (1998)

3. Regime in Iraq as U.S. Policy: The Iraq Liberation Act (1998)

4. Osama bin Laden's Fatwa Urging Jihad against the United States (1998)

5. The 9/11 Commission Report, "Counterterrorism Evolves" (2004)

6. George W. Bush, Address to the Nation, September 20, 2001 (2001)

7. UN Security Council Resolution 1373 (2001)

8. The USA Patriot Act (2001)

9. George W. Bush, State of the Union Address, January 29, 2002 (2002)

10. Preemption and the National Security Strategy of the United States (2002)

11. The Congressional Authorization to Use Force against Iraq (2002)

12. UN Security Council Resolution 1441: Iraq and WMDs (2002)

13. Hans Blix's Report on Iraqi Compliance with UN Security Council Resolution 1441 (2002)

14. Tony Blair's Iraq War Speech (2003)

15. Bush's Ultimatum to Saddam (2003)

16. The Iraq Survey Group's Interim Report on Iraq's WMD Programs (2004)

17. Declaration by NATO and the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan (2006)

18. The Iraq Study Group Reports on the Rise in Violence in Iraq (2006)

19. Obama's Cairo Speech and U.S.-Muslim Relations (2009)

20. Obama: The Way Forward in Afghanistan (2009)

21. Obama's National Security Strategy (2010).