GMT Games - Labyrinth The War on Terror2001: The American Century had closed with a single Cold War superpower standing and a pause in conflict that some at the time dubbed The End of History. It wasnt. In the Middle East and South Asia an Islamic revival was underway. Resentments bred in part of US support for the regions anti Soviet tyrannies soon erupted into a new struggle against the West. Wealthy Saudi fanatic Usama bin Ladin issued a declaration of holy war against America in 1996