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9-11 Attack [r]: A massive terrorist attack on the United States, occurring on September 11, 2001. ^[e]
Al-Qaeda [r]: International islamist terrorist network. Responsible for the 9/11 attack and other terrorist attacks. ^[e]
Insurgency [r]: Add brief definition or description
George W. Bush [r]: (1946–) 43rd U.S. President (Republican), elected in 2000 and re-elected in 2004. ^[e]
Dick Cheney [r]: (1941–) U.S. Vice President in the George W. Bush Administration and advocate of neoconservatism and unitary Presidential authority; currently a political commentator; U.S. Secretary of Defense in the George H. W. Bush Administration; spouse of Lynne Cheney; father of Liz Cheney ^[e]
Terrorism [r]: An act, with targets including civilians or civilian infrastructure, intended to create an atmosphere of fear in order to obtain a political objective. ^[e]

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John Abizaid [r]: Add brief definition or description
Abdullah Azzam [r]: Add brief definition or description
Combatant Status Review Tribunal [r]: Add brief definition or description
Counter-terrorism [r]: Add brief definition or description
Foreign internal defense [r]: Add brief definition or description
Hamdi v. Rumsfeld [r]: A 2004 opinion by the Supreme Court of the United States, which held that a U.S. citizen, captured in a combat zone and alleged to be bearing arms against the United States, still was entitled to a judicial hearing to determine if he was an enemy combatant subject to military, rather than civilian, law ^[e]
Iraq War [r]: (2003-2011) Invasion and occupation of Iraq by a coalition of countries led by the U.S. to depose Saddam Hussein, who was accused of stockpiling weapons of mass destruction (which were never found). ^[e]
Islamic Jihad [r]: Add brief definition or description
David Kilcullen [r]: Add brief definition or description
David McKiernan [r]: A U.S Army General who was relieved early of command of the International Security Assistance Force, NATO's headquarters in Afghanistan; he commanded the ground forces in the Iraq War and is an armored combat specialist, as opposed to his replacement, GEN Stanley McChrystal, a special operations officer ^[e]
H.R. McMaster [r]: Add brief definition or description
Muslim Brotherhood [r]: Add brief definition or description
Office for the Administrative Review of the Detention of Enemy Combatants [r]: Add brief definition or description
Osama bin-Laden [r]: Add brief definition or description
PATRIOT Act [r]:

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History and implementation of the PATRIOT Act. ^[e]

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