The 9/11 Commission Report: Final Report of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United StatesNearly 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 loss of life from an enemy attack on its soil. This volume is the authorized edition of the Commission's final report. |
Contents
WE HAVE SOME PLANES | 1 |
THE FOUNDATION OF THE NEW TERRORISM | 47 |
COUNTERTERRORISM EVOLVES | 71 |
RESPONSES TO AL QAEDAS INITIAL ASSAULTS | 108 |
AL QAEDA AIMS AT THE AMERICAN HOMELAND | 145 |
FROM THREAT TO THREAT | 174 |
THE ATTACK LOOMS | 215 |
THE SYSTEM WAS BLINKING RED | 254 |
HEROISM AND HORROR | 278 |
WARTIME | 325 |
FORESIGHTAND HINDSIGHT | 339 |
WHAT TO DO? A GLOBAL STRATEGY | 361 |
HOW TO DO IT? A DIFFERENT WAY OF ORGANIZING THE GOVERNMENT | 399 |
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