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The 9-11 Commission Report
Final Report of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States, Official Government Edition
The Commission’s Final Report provides a full and complete account of the circumstances surrounding the September 11th, 2001, terrorist attacks, including preparedness for and the immediate response to the attacks. It also includes recommendations designed to guard against future attacks. Below you will find the official Government edition of the Final Report of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States.
The Full Report (2.3 MB, 585 pages) has been made available in its entirety, as a single PDF file. In response to comments from the community, GPO has refined the Full Report as an improved, interactive, user-friendly PDF, optimized for screen-viewing. GPO has also decreased the file size to a mere 2.3 MB. The report is also available as a collection of smaller PDFs arranged in a browse table based on the Final Report's table of contents. An Executive Summary (344 KB, 35 pages) of the Final Report is also available.
Final Report of the National Commission on Terrorist
Attacks Upon the United States
Report Section |
File Size |
Number of Pages |
Front Matter |
42 KB |
4 |
Table of Contents |
48 KB |
3 |
List of Illustrations and Tables |
20 KB |
1 |
Member List |
511 KB |
1 |
Staff List |
49 KB |
2 |
Preface |
48 KB |
4 |
1. "We
Have Some Planes"
- 1.1 Inside the Four Flights
- 1.2 Improvising a Homeland Defense
- 1.3 National Crisis Management
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831 KB |
46 |
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)
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724 KB |
24 |
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
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267 KB |
37 |
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
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274 KB |
37 |
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?
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314 KB |
29 |
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
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326 KB |
41 |
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
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771 KB |
39 |
8. "The
System Was Blinking Red"
- 8.1 The Summer of Threat
- 8.2 Late Leads--Mihdhar, Moussaoui, and KSM
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206 KB |
24 |
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
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2 MB |
47 |
10. Wartime
- 10.1 Immediate Responses at Home
- 10.2 Planning for War
- 10.3 "Phase Two" and the Question of Iraq
|
141 KB |
14 |
11. Foresight--and Hindsight
- 11.1 Imagination
- 11.2 Policy
- 11.3 Capabilities
- 11.4 Management
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171 KB |
22 |
12. What To Do? A Global Strategy
- 12.1 Reflecting on a Generational Challenge
- 12.2 Attack Terrorists and Their Organizations
- 12.3 Prevent the Continued Growth of Islamist Terrorism
- 12.4 Protect against and Prepare for Terrorist Attacks
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269 KB |
38 |
13. How To Do It? A Different Way of Organizing the Government
- 13.1 Unity of Effort across the Foreign-Domestic Divide
- 13.2 Unity of Effort in the Intelligence Community
- 13.3 Unity of Effort in Sharing Information
- 13.4 Unity of Effort in the Congress
- 13.5 Organizing America's Defenses in the United States
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214 KB |
30 |
Appendix A: Common Abbreviations |
22 KB |
2 |
Appendix B: Table of Names |
63 KB |
8 |
Appendix C: Commission Hearings |
96 KB |
10 |
Notes |
1.2 MB |
119 |
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