"The attacks of September 11 and the resulting War on Terror have defined the first decade and a half of the 21st century. This text closely examines and analyzes the primary documents that provide the historical background of today's worldwide War on Terror. [This book] provides introductory commentary as well as in-depth analysis from an expert in the field, includes a collection of thematically related primary source documents accompanied by adjoined introductions and analyses, offers a ... synopsis of the arguments utilized by both the United States and Al Qaeda against each other during the War on Terror, and presents sidebars containing details, facts, and figures crucial to understanding the content in question as well as a bibliography that directs readers toward additional resources for further study on the September 11th attacks and the War on Terror."--