Final Report of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States
Report Section |
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Front Matter |
285 KB |
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Table of Contents |
255 KB |
3 |
List of Illustrations and Tables |
50 KB |
1 |
Member List |
341 KB |
1 |
Staff List |
230 KB |
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Preface |
243 KB |
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1. "We Have Some Planes"
- 1.1 Inside the Four Flights
- 1.2 Improvising a Homeland Defense
- 1.3 National Crisis Management
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701 KB |
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2. The Foundation of the New Terrorism
- 2.1 A Declaration of War
- 2.2 Bin Ladin's Appeal in the Islamic World
- 2.3 The Rise of Bin Ladin and al Qaeda (1988-1992)
- 2.4 Building an Organization, Declaring War on the United States (1992-1996)
- 2.5 Al Qaeda's Renewal in Afghanistan (1996-1998)
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568 KB |
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3. Counterterrorism Evolves
- 3.1 From the Old Terrorism to the New: The First World Trade Center Bombing
- 3.2 Adaptation--and Nonadaptation--in the Law Enforcement Community
- 3.3 ... and in the Federal Aviation Administration
- 3.4 ... and in the Intelligence Community
- 3.5 ... and in the State Department and the Defense Department
- 3.6 ... and in the White House
- 3.7 ... and in the Congress
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415 KB |
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4. Responses to Al Qaeda's Initial Assaults
- 4.1 Before the Bombings in Kenya and Tanzania
- 4.2 Crisis: August 1998
- 4.3 Diplomacy
- 4.4 Covert Action
- 4.5 Searching for Fresh Options
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511 KB |
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5. Al Qaeda Aims at the American Homeland
- 5.1 Terrorist Entrepreneurs
- 5.2 The "Planes Operation"
- 5.3 The Hamburg Contingent
- 5.4 A Money Trail?
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529 KB |
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6. From Threat To Threat
- 6.1 The Millennium Crisis
- 6.2 Post-Crisis Reflection: Agenda for 2000
- 6.3 The Attack on the USS Cole
- 6.4 Change and Continuity
- 6.5 The New Administration's Approach
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540 KB |
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7. The Attack Looms
- 7.1 First Arrivals in California
- 7.2 The 9/11 Pilots in the United States
- 7.3 Assembling the Teams
- 7.4 Final Strategies and Tactics
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613 KB |
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8. "The System Was Blinking Red"
- 8.1 The Summer of Threat
- 8.2 Late Leads--Mihdhar, Moussaoui, and KSM
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450 KB |
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9. Heroism and Horror
- 9.1 Preparedness as of September 11
- 9.2 September 11, 2001
- 9.3 Emergency Response at the Pentagon
- 9.4 Analysis
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818 KB |
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10. Wartime
- 10.1 Immediate Responses at Home
- 10.2 Planning for War
- 10.3 "Phase Two" and the Question of Iraq
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396 KB |
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11. Foresight--and Hindsight
- 11.1 Imagination
- 11.2 Policy
- 11.3 Capabilities
- 11.4 Management
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431 KB |
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12. What To Do? A Global Strategy
- 12.1 Reflecting on a Generational Challenge
- 12.2 Attack Terrorists and Their Organizations
- 12.3 Prevent the Continued Growth of Islamist Terrorism
- 12.4 Protect against and Prepare for Terrorist Attacks
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508 KB |
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13. How To Do It? A Different Way of Organizing the Government
- 13.1 Unity of Effort across the Foreign-Domestic Divide
- 13.2 Unity of Effort in the Intelligence Community
- 13.3 Unity of Effort in Sharing Information
- 13.4 Unity of Effort in the Congress
- 13.5 Organizing America's Defenses in the United States
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463 KB |
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Appendix A: Common Abbreviations |
217 KB |
2 |
Appendix B: Table of Names |
257 KB |
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Appendix C: Commission Hearings |
271 KB |
10 |
Notes |
1.1 MB |
119 |
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