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This is the final, official report by the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks upon the United States, which was created to look into the events of September 11, 2001--and to examine this nation's preparedness and response. Here are the findings of what happened and what should be done about it. The report includes narrative accounts of the events on the four airplanes that crashed into the World Trade Center, the Pentagon, and the field in Pennsylvania, along with background on how the terrorists planned and carried out their attacks. It provides an analysis of Osama bin Laden's appeal to terror and of the growth of al Qaeda. And it recounts a chain of prior acts of terror against the US abroad as well as the 1993 bombing at the World Trade Center in New York. All of these accounts are sobering, terrifying, and in their detail, fascinating. The report recounts the many heroic exploits of first responders and citizens that day, and it assigns both praise and blame to a host of government agencies at all levels, but especially the FBI and the CIA. The conclusions and the recommendations of the panel are presented in two final sections: What to Do, and How to Do It. Their suggestions include specific policy changes on the global scale, including an effort to engage the struggle of ideas, a restructuring of systems such as airport screening, and a reorganization within the government that would include newly defined roles for the FBI. Most notably, the report recommends the establishment of a new, cabinet-level post of National Intelligence Director. This report and its notes make deeply absorbing reading, and do honor to the efforts of the families who lost loved ones on that terrible, terrible day, and who fought for this search for truth in the face of a great deal of government reluctance at every step of the process. A New York Times Notable Book for 2004.
- ISBN:
- 9780393326710
- Format:
- Paperback
- Pages:
- 567
- Publish Date:
- 07/01/2004
- Publisher:
- W W Norton & Co Inc
- Language:
- English
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Starred ReviewWith a grave resolve that perfectly balances the enormous stakes with the necessity of delving into minutiae, this historic book describes the mechanics of the horrific attacks on the United States and recommends measures for preventing further strikes. Without trivializing any of the events or diminishing the people involved, it reads like a Shakespearean drama. The authors, with grim but charged dispassion," unspool paragraph after paragraph dramatizing the arrival of """"muscle hijackers"""" (as opposed to pilots)", the thinking of CIA director George Tenet (regularly referred to, along with most other players here," simply by last name) and plot co-coordinator Khalid Sheikh Mohammad (""""KSM"""") among thousands of others"," and the other ways and means by which a """"foreign"""" incursion caused catastrophic domestic damage. Distilling an enormous amount of information in plain language"," with unerring pitch and a perfect feel for when to gloss (""""Dubai"," a modern city with easy access to a major airport..."""")", the book's implied narrator sticks as close as possible to how real people made real decisions, and, when stymied in considering a factor or set of factors, is willing to say so. In so doing, this multi-author document produces an absolutely compelling narrative intelligence, one with clarity, a sense of shared mission and an overriding desire to do something about the situation. At the same time," with quotational chapter headings like """" `We Have Some Planes' """" and """" `The System Was Blinking Red","' """" the authors never forget that they are communicating in a medium that has a lot of stylistic resources for holding one's attention; they draw liberally on the most tried and true. Given what hangs in the balance", it is not a stretch to compare this document to The Federalist Papers, in the sense that the book is designed to foster the debate by which the country will reimagine itself through its bureaucracy. (July 22) (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved
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