The 9/11 Commission Report with Related Documents (Bedford Series in History & Culture (Paperback))

Synopsis

Introduction: The Making Of The 9/11 Commission Report. The Politics Of The 9/11 Era ; The Creation Of The 9/11 Commission ; 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 Intelligence 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. Abridged And With An Introduction By Ernest R. May. Includes Bibliographical References (p. 191-193) And Index.