and assume that historians know would send us back in time. is due book tonight that we bombed the capital the operations which culminated in november 1983. and the court records for had everything room affidavits and evidence to the various crime scene. and to be absolutely invaluable. and so this little-known domestic terrorist group that became violent the senior historian policy historian and expert and with those omissions with that political warfare. his books include acknowledging limits in international security assistance. and was subversion and public order and a political scientist at the rand corporation. and office of the court for counterterrorism and an adjunct professor at the studies program at georgetown and a harvard a teaching fellow and for the national security program. please welcome. [applause] they give very much for that kind introduction. thank you all for coming out today. i want to start off with this as the archivist to point out the court reco
startling story that happened within our lifetime. his new book tomight we bombed the u.s. capitol: the explosive story of m19, america s first female terrorist group introduces us to home grown terrorist organization called m19. the only american terrorist group organized and led by women. their operations which culminated in the shocking bombing of the capital in november of 1983 were documented in many sources including those in the custody of the national archives. in a recent interview william rosenau recalled days of going through federal court records, everything from transcripts to affidavits from fbi agents to grand jury testimony to evidence from the crime scene. those trial records were invaluable to getting inside this group. let us hear from the author himself, little-known domestic terrorist group in their campaign of violence. william rosenau is a senior policy historian at cna center for strategic studies and expert on the united states and international mil
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