9/11 Commission report
Subtitle: fully updated with controversial third monograph and never-before-published progress reports from the 9/11 Commissioners
Publisher: Barnes & Noble
Published: 2006
Place of publication: New York, N.Y
Language: eng
Number of pages: 816
ISBN-13: 9780760781746
Subjects: War on Terrorism, 2001-2009; September 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001; Government policy; National security; War on Terrorism (2001-2009) fast (OCoLC)fst01754980; Intelligence service; September 11 Terrorist Attacks (2001) fast (OCoLC)fst01112794; Qaida (Organization); Terrorism; Evaluation; Prevention
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: 1. "We have some planes"; title: 1.1. Inside the four flights; title: 1.2. Improvising a homeland defense; title: 1.3. National crisis management; title: 2. The foundation of the new terrorism; title: 2.1. A declaration of war; title: 2.2. Bin Ladin's appeal in the Islamic world; title: 2.3. The rise of Bin Laden and al Qaeda (1988-1992); title: 2.4. Building an organization, declaring war on the United States (1992-1996); title: 2.5. Al Qaeda's renewal in Afghanistan (1996-1998); title: 3. Counterterrorism evolves; title: 3.1. From the old terrorism to the new : the first World Trade Center bombing; title: 3.2. Adaptation, and nonadaptation, in the law enforcement community; title: 3.3. ... and in the Federal Aviation Administration; title: 3.4. ... and in the intelligence community; title: 3.5. ... and in the State Department and the Defense Department; title: 3.6. ... and in the White House; title: 3.7. ... and in the Congress; title: 4. Responses to al Qaeda's initial assaults; title: 4.1. Before the bombings in Kenya and Tanzania; title: 4.2. Crisis : August 1998; title: 4.3. Diplomacy; title: 4.4. Covert action; title: 4.5. Searching for fresh options; title: 5. Al Qaeda aims at the American homeland; title: 5.1. Terrorist entrepreneurs; title: 5.2. The "planes operation"; title: 5.3. The Hamburg contingent; title: 5.4. A money trail?; title: 6. From threat to threat; title: 6.1. The millennium crisis; title: 6.2. Post-crisis reflection : agenda for 2000; title: 6.3. The attack of the USS Cole; title: 6.4. Change and continuity; title: 6.5. The new administration's approach; title: 7. The attack looms; title: 7.1. First arrivals in California; title: 7.2. The 9/11 pilots in the United States; title: 7.3. Assembling the teams; title: 7.4. Final strategies and tactics; title: 8. "The system was blinking red"; title: 8.1. The summer of threat; title: 8.2. Late leads, Mihdhar, Moussaoui, and KSM; title: 9. Heroism and horror; title: 9.1. Preparedness as of September 11; title: 9.2. September 11, 2001; title: 9.3. Emergency response at the Pentagon; title: 9.4. Analysis; title: 10. Wartime; title: 10.1. Immediate responses at home; title: 10.2. Planning for war; title: 10.3. "Phase two" and the question of Iraq; title: 11. Foresight, and hindsight; title: 11.1. Imagination; title: 11.2. Policy; title: 11.3. Capabilities; title: 11.4. Management; title: 12. What to do? : a global strategy; title: 12.1. Reflecting on a generational challenge; title: 12.2. Attack terrorists and their organizations; title: 12.3. Prevent the continued growth of Islamist terrorism; title: 12.4. Protect against and prepare for terrorist attacks; title: 13. How to do it? : a different way of organizing the government; title: 13.1. Unity of effort across the foreign-domestic divide; title: 13.2. Unity of effort in the intelligence community; title: 13.3. Unity of effort in sharing information; title: 13.4. Unity of effort in the Congress; title: 13.5. Organizing America's defenses in the United States; title: Appendix A. Common abbreviations; title: Appendix B. Table of names; title: Appendix C. Commission hearings; title: Notes; title: Interim reports; title: Third monograph : the four flights and civil aviation security; title: 9/11 Public Discourse Project progress reports.