Glossary

9/11 Commission Report

The Commission's Report was met with a great deal of political reaction which is expected in a presidential election year. We owe it to ourselves to read the report and to reflect upon its recommendations. The following excerpt should provide sufficient impetus :

We learned about an enemy who is sophisticated, patient, disciplined, and lethal. The enemy rallies broad support in the Arab and Muslim world by demanding redress of political grievances, but its hostility toward us and our values is limitless. Its purpose is to rid the world of religious and political pluralism, the plebiscite, and equal rights for women. It makes no distinction between military and civilian targets. Collateral damage is not in its lexicon.

For a 35 page overview, click:
Executive Summary

For the entire report in excess of 500 pages including footnotes, you can open the pdf file entitled Full Report below. Due to its size, you may prefer to open files per the table of contents below.
Full Report

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	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)	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	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	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?	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	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	771 KB	39
8. "The System Was Blinking Red" 8.1 The Summer of Threat 8.2 Late Leads--Mihdhar, Moussaoui, and KSM	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	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	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	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	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