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The 9/11 Commission Report

The 9/11 Commission Report

by THE 9/11 COMMISSION ( - )

9/11 Commission Report, formally titled Final Report of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States, is the official report of the events leading up to the September 11, 2001 attacks. It was prepared by the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States (informally sometimes known as the "9/11 Commission" or the "Kean/Zelikow Commission") at the request of the President of the United States and Congress. The commission convened on November 26, 2002 (441 days after the attack) and their final report was issued on July 22, 2004


1. We Have Some Planes, 1.1 Inside the Four Flights

10. Wartime, 10.1 Immediate Responses at Home

10.2 Planning for War

10.3 "Phase Two" and the Question of Iraq

11. Foresight--and Hindsight, 11.1 Imagination

11.2 Policy

11.3 Capabilities

11.4 Management

1.2 Improvising a Homeland Defense

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

13. How To Do It?, 13.1 Unity of Effort across the Foreign-Domestic Divide

1.3 National Crisis Management

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

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

2.4 Building an Organization

2.5 Al Qaeda's Renewal in Afghanistan

3. Counterterrorism Evolves, 3.1 From the Old Terrorism to the New

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

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

5.1 Terrorist Entrepreneurs

5.2 The "Planes Operation"

5.3 The Hamburg Contingent

5.4 A Money Trail?

6. From Threat To Threat, 6.1 The Millennium Crisis

6.2 Post-Crisis Reflection

6.3 The Attack on the USS Cole

6.4 Change and Continuity

6.5 The New Administration's Approach

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

8.1 The Summer of Threat

8.2 Late Leads

9.1 Preparedness as of September 11

9.2 September 11, 2001 - part 1

9.2 September 11, 2001 - part 2

9.3 Emergency Response at the Pentagon

9.4 Analysis

Preface