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2. George H. W Bush and Brent Scowcroft, A World Transformed (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1998), 343;
3. Robert Oakley, “International Terrorism,” Foreign Affairs 65, no. 3 (1987): 611–30; 1986 Report of Vice President’s Task Force on Combating Terrorism;
4. Richard A. Clarke, Against All Enemies: Inside Americas War on Terror (New York: Free Press, 2004), 73–74.
5. Giandomenico Picco, Man without a Gun: One Diplomat’s Secret Struggle to Free the Hostages, Fight Terrorism, and Enda War (New York: Times Books, 1999);