Research Catalog

Title

The 9/11 Commission report : the attack from planning to aftermath : authorized text / with an afterword by Philip Zelikow.

Author

National Commission on Terrorist Attacks upon the United States.

Publication

New York : W.W. Norton & Co., c2011.

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Additional Authors

Zelikow, Philip, 1954-

Description

xii, 640 p. : ill.; 21 cm.

Summary

Provides the final report of the 9/11 Commission detailing their findings on the September 11 terrorist attacks.

Subject

• Qaida (Organization)
• 2001-2009
• September 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001
• Terrorism > Government policy > United States
• Terrorism > United States > Prevention
• Intelligence service > United States > Evaluation
• National security > United States
• War on Terrorism, 2001-2009
• September 11 Terrorist Attacks

Note

• Includes index.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

List of Illustrations and Tables -- Member List -- Staff List -- 1. "We have some Planes" -- 1.1. Inside the Four Flights -- 1.2. Improvising a Homeland Defense -- 1.3. National Crisis Management -- 2. The Foundation of the New Terrorism -- 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 (1988-1992) -- 2.4. Building an Organization, Declaring War on the United States (1992-1996) -- 2.5. Al Qaeda's Renewal in Afghanistan (1996-1998) -- 3. Counterterrorism Evolves -- 3.1. From the Old Terrorism to the New: The First World Trade Center Bombing -- 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. Responses to Al Qaeda's Initial Assaults -- 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. Al Qaeda Aims at the American Homeland -- 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: Agenda for 2000 -- 6.3. The Attack on the USS Cole -- 6.4. Change and Continuity -- 6.5. The New Administration's Approach -- 7. The Attack Looms -- 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. "The System was Blinking Red" -- 8.1. The Summer of Threat -- 8.2. Late Leads-Mihdhar, Moussaoui, and KSM -- 9. Heroism and Horror -- 9.1. Preparedness as of September 11 -- 9.2. September 11, 2001 -- 9.3. Emergency Response at the Pentagon -- 9.4. Analysis -- 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 -- Afterword: The Twilight War / Philip Zelikow -- Appendix A. Common Abbreviations -- Appendix B. Table of Names -- Notes -- Index.

ISBN

• 9780393340136 (pbk.)
• 0393340139 (pbk.)

LCCN

^^2011009318

OCLC

668193790

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library