The 9/11 Commission Report: Complete Edition
The Definitive Investigation of Terrorism, Intelligence Failures, and National Security ReformBy Thomas R. Eldridge, Susan Ginsburg, Walter T. Hempel II, Janice L. Kephart, Kelly Moore, Joanne M. Accolla, The National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States
Length33h 2m
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The 9/11 Commission Report: Complete Edition is a landmark documentary account of the attacks of September 11, 2001, their historical preconditions, and the institutional failures that shaped the United States' response. Combining investigative narrative, policy analysis, intelligence history, chronology, and formal recommendations, the volume moves between global terrorism's evolving networks and the practical workings of government. Its reconstruction of the morning of the attacks and its examination of missed warnings remain especially consequential, giving the report both narrative force and enduring civic significance. Prepared under the authority of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States, with the contributions of Thomas R. Eldridge, Susan Ginsburg, Walter T. Hempel II, Janice L. Kephart, Kelly Moore, and Joanne M. Accolla, the report reflects collaborative research across law enforcement, intelligence, aviation, diplomacy, and national-security policy. Its varied institutional perspectives place it within the tradition of public inquiry and post-crisis reform, while illuminating the tensions between democratic accountability, information sharing, and security. Essential for students, researchers, and citizens, this complete edition offers an unusually rich opportunity to assess a defining event through multiple evidentiary and analytical lenses. Readers will find both a rigorous historical resource and a vital forum for considering terrorism, state capacity, and the responsibilities of public institutions.
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Length33 hrs 2 mins
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Publish dateDec 19, 2023
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1How to Survive a Terrorist Attack – Become Prepared for a Bomb Threat or Active Shooter Assault
2The 9/11 Commission Report: Complete Edition
3Preface
41. “We Have Some Planes”
51.1 Inside the Four Flights
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61.2 Improvising a Homeland Defense
71.3 National Crisis Management
82. The Foundation of the New Terrorism
92.1 A Declaration of War
102.2 Bin Ladin’s Appeal in the Islamic World
112.3 The Rise of Bin Ladin and al Qaeda (1988–1992)
122.4 Building an Organization, Declaring War on the United States (1992–1996)
132.5 Al Qaeda’s Renewal in Afghanistan (1996–1998)
143. Counterterrorism Evolves
153.1 From the Old Terrorism to the New: The First World Trade Center Bombing
163.2 Adaptation—and Nonadaptation—in the Law Enforcement Community
173.3 . . . and in the Federal Aviation Administration
183.4 . . . and in the Intelligence Community
193.5 . . . and in the State Department and the Defense Department
203.6 . . . and in the White House
213.7 . . . and in the Congress
224. Responses to Al Qaeda’s Initial Assaults
234.1 Before the Bombings in Kenya and Tanzania
244.2 Crisis: August 1998
254.3 Diplomacy
264.4 Covert Action
274.5 Searching for Fresh Options
285. Al Qaeda Aims at the American Homeland
295.1 Terrorist Entrepreneurs
305.2 The “Planes Operation”
315.3 The Hamburg Contingent
325.4 A Money Trail?
336. From Threat to Threat
346.1 The Millennium Crisis
356.2 Post-Crisis Reflection: Agenda for 2000
366.3 The Attack on the USS Cole
376.4 Change and Continuity
386.5 The New Administration’s Approach
397. The Attack Looms
407.1 First Arrivals in California
417.3 Assembling the Teams
427.4 Final Strategies and Tactics
438. “The System was Blinking Red”
448.1 The Summer of Threat
458.2 Late Leads—Mihdhar, Moussaoui, and KSM
469. Heroism and Horror
479.1 Preparedness as of September 11
489.2 September 11, 2001
499.3 Emergency Response at the Pentagon
509.4 Analysis
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