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We present the narrativeof this report and the recommendations that flow from it to the President of the United States, the United States Congress, and the American people for their consideration.
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Jul 17, 2004 · The 9/11 Commission Report: Final Report of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States. Authorized Edition. Nearly three thousand people died in the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. In Lower Manhattan, on a field in Pennsylvania, and along the banks of the Potomoc, the United States suffered the single largest ...
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- Thomas H. Kean, Lee Hamilton
Aug 21, 2004 · The Commission has released its final report, available below in PDF format. The report is also available in bookstores nationwide and from the Government Printing Office . Frequently Asked Questions about the report are answered on this site.
- A Nation Transformed
- General Findings
- Specific Findings
- Recommendations
- What to do? A Global Strategy
- How to Do It? A Different Way of Organizing Government
At 8:46 on the morning of September 11, 2001, the United States became a nation transformed. An airliner traveling at hundreds of miles per hour and carrying some 10,000 gallons of jet fuel plowed into the North Tower of the World Trade Center in Lower Manhattan. At 9:03, a second airliner hit the South Tower. Fire and smoke billowed upward. Steel,...
Since the plotters were flexible and resourceful, we cannot know whether any single step or series of steps would have defeated them. What we can say with confidence is that none of the measures adopted by the U.S. government from 1998 to 2001 disturbed or even delayed the progress of the al Qaeda plot. Across the government, there were failures of...
Unsuccessful Diplomacy Beginning in February 1997, and through September 11, 2001, the U.S. government tried to use diplomatic pressure to persuade the Taliban regime in Afghanistan to stop being a sanctuary for al Qaeda, and to expel Bin Ladin to a country where he could face justice. These efforts included warnings and sanctions, but they all fai...
Three years after 9/11, the national debate continues about how to protect our nation in this new era. We divide our recommendations into two basic parts: What to do, and how to do it.
The enemy is not just "terrorism." It is the threat posed specifically by Islamist terrorism, by Bin Ladin and others who draw on a long tradition of extreme intolerance within a minority strain of Islam that does not distinguish politics from religion, and distorts both. The enemy is not Islam, the great world faith, but a perversion of Islam. The...
The strategy we have recommended is elaborate, even as presented here very briefly. To implement it will require a government better organized than the one that exists today, with its national security institutions designed half a century ago to win the Cold War. Americans should not settle for incremental, ad hoc adjustments to a system created a ...
1.1 Inside the Four Flights 1. 1.2 Improvising a Homeland Defense 14. 1.3 National Crisis Management 35. THE FOUNDATION OF THE NEW TERRORISM 47. 2.1 A Declaration of War 47. 2.2 Bin Ladin’s Appeal in the Islamic World 48. 2.3 The Rise of Bin Ladin and al Qaeda (1988–1992) 55.
It provides a full and complete account of the circumstances surrounding the September 11th, 2001 terrorist attacks, including preparedness for and the immediate response to the attacks....
“A document of historic sweep and almost unprecedented detail.”— Washington Post , The 9/11 Commission Report, The Attack from Planning to Aftermath, National Commission on Terrorist Attacks, Philip D Zelikow, 9780393340136
