The 9/11 Commission Report: The Attack from Planning to Aftermath (Authorized Text, Shorter Edition)
by NATIONAL COMMISSION ON TERRORIST ATTACKSEdition: 00
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2011-08-08
Publisher(s): W. W. Norton & Company
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Summary
Published for the tenth anniversary of 9/11, this new edition of the authorized report is limited to the Commission#xE2;#x80;#x99;s riveting account#xE2;#x80;#x94;which was a finalist for the National Book Award#xE2;#x80;#x94;of the attack and its background, examining both the attackers and the U.S. government, the emergency response, and the immediate aftermath. It includes new material from Philip Zelikow, the Commission#xE2;#x80;#x99;s executive director, on the Commission#xE2;#x80;#x99;s work, the fate of its recommendations, and the way this struggle has evolved right up to the present day.
Author Biography
The 9/11 Commission was an independent, bipartisan panel chaired by Thomas H. Kean and Lee H. Hamilton. Philip Zelikow is now the White Burkett Miller Professor of History at the University of Virginia.
Table of Contents
| List of Illustrations and Tables | p. vii |
| Member List | p. ix |
| Staff List | p. xi |
| "We have some Planes" | p. 1 |
| Inside the Four Flights | p. 1 |
| Improvising a Homeland Defense | p. 20 |
| National Crisis Management | p. 47 |
| The Foundation of the New Terrorism | p. 64 |
| A Declaration of War | p. 64 |
| Bin Ladin's Appeal in the Islamic World | p. 66 |
| The Rise of Bin Ladin and al Qaeda (1988-1992) | p. 75 |
| Building an Organization, Declaring War on the United States (1992-1996) | p. 80 |
| Al Qaeda's Renewal in Afghanistan (1996-1998) | p. 86 |
| Counterterrorism Evolves | p. 97 |
| From the Old Terrorism to the New: The First World Trade Center Bombing | p. 97 |
| Adaptation-and Nonadaptation-... in the Law Enforcement Community | p. 100 |
| ... and in the Federal Aviation Administration | p. 113 |
| ... and in the Intelligence Community | p. 118 |
| ... and in the State Department and the Defense Department | p. 129 |
| ... and in the White House | p. 136 |
| ... and in the Congress | p. 141 |
| Responses to Al Qaeda's Initial Assaults | p. 149 |
| Before the Bombings in Kenya and Tanzania | p. 149 |
| Crisis: August 1998 | p. 160 |
| Diplomacy | p. 168 |
| Covert Action | p. 175 |
| Searching for Fresh Options | p. 186 |
| Al Qaeda Aims at the American Homeland | p. 200 |
| Terrorist Entrepreneurs | p. 200 |
| The "Planes Operation" | p. 211 |
| The Hamburg Contingent | p. 221 |
| A Money Trail? | p. 234 |
| From Threat to Threat | p. 240 |
| The Millennium Crisis | p. 241 |
| Post-Crisis Reflection: Agenda for 2000 | p. 251 |
| The Attack on the USS Cole | p. 263 |
| Change and Continuity | p. 273 |
| The New Administration's Approach | p. 281 |
| The Attack Looms | p. 298 |
| First Arrivals in California | p. 298 |
| The 9/11 Pilots in the United States | p. 310 |
| Assembling the Teams | p. 320 |
| Final Strategies and Tactics | p. 334 |
| "The System was Blinking Red" | p. 352 |
| The Summer of Threat | p. 352 |
| Late Leads-Mihdhar, Moussaoui, and KSM | p. 368 |
| Heroism and Horror | p. 386 |
| Preparedness as of September 11 | p. 386 |
| September 11, 2001 | p. 395 |
| Emergency Response at the Pentagon | p. 433 |
| Analysis | p. 437 |
| Wartime | p. 449 |
| Immediate Responses at Home | p. 451 |
| Planning for War | p. 454 |
| "Phase Two" and the Question of Iraq | p. 461 |
| Foresight-and Hindsight | p. 468 |
| Imagination | p. 469 |
| Policy | p. 480 |
| Capabilities | p. 484 |
| Management | p. 487 |
| Afterword: The Twilight War | p. 499 |
| Common Abbreviations | p. 549 |
| Table of Names | p. 551 |
| Notes | p. 563 |
| Index | p. 607 |
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