The 9/11 Commission report with related documents /
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| Language: | English |
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Boston :
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2007.
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| Series: | Bedford series in history and culture.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: the making of The 9/11 Commission report. The politics of the 9/11 era ; The creation of the 9/11 Ccommission ; Battles between the Commission and the Administration ; The public hearings of the Commission ; The Commission report ; Shortcomings of the report ; What's missing
- The Document : the 9/11 Commission report. 1. We have some planes. Inside the four flights, Improvising a homeland defense, National crisis management ; 2. Foundation of the new terrorism. A declaration of war, Bin Ladin's appeal to the Islamic world, The rise of Bin Ladin and al Qaeda (1988-1992), Al Qaeda's renewal in Afghanistan (1996-1998) ; 3. Counterterrorism evolves. From the old terrorism to the new: the first World Trade Center bombing, Adaptation
- and nonadaptation
- in the law enforcement community ... And in the intellegence community ... And into the State Department and the Defense Department ... And the White House ... And in the Congress ; 4. Responses to al Qaeda's initial assaults. Before the bombings in Kenya and Tanzania, Crisis : August 1998, Covert action, Searching for fresh options ; Al Qaeda aims at the American homeland. Terrorist entrepreneurs, The "planes operation," The Hamburg contingent ; 6. From threat to threat. The Millennium crisis, Post-crisis reflection: agenda for 2000, The attack on the USS Cole, Change and continuity, The new administration's approach ; 7. The attack looms. First arrivals in California, The 9/11 pilots in the United States, Assembling the teams ; 8."The system was blinking red." The summer of threat ; 9. Heroism and horror. Emergency response at the Pentagon. 10. Wartime. Immediate responses at home, Planning for war, "Phase two" and the question of Iraq ; 11. Foresight
- and hindsight. Imagination, Policy, Capabilities, Management ; 12. What to do? A global strategy ; 13. How to do it? A different way of organizing government
- Related documents. 1. Declarations by Usama Bin Ladin, August 23, 1996; May 10, 1997; February 23, 1998 ; From The President's daily brief, December 4, 1998, and August 6, 2001 ; The 9/11 Commission, final report on 9/11 Commission recommendations, December 5, 2005.