...THE 9/11 COMMISSION REPORT Final FM.1pp 7/17/04 5:25 PM Page i List of Illustrations and Tables ix Member List xi Staff List xiii–xiv Pr... ...omeland Defense 14 1.3 National Crisis Management 35 2. THE FOUNDATION OF THE NEW TERRORISM 47 2.1 A Declaration of War 47 2.2 Bin Ladin’s App... ...rs earlier, most notably in a declaration faxed early in 1998 to an Arabic-language newspaper in London. Few Americans had noticed it. The fax had bee... ...n” of Islamic lands. Specifically singling out U.S. forces for attack, the language resembled that which would appear in Bin Ladin’s public fatwa in A... ...ce sources to the FBI or CIA for counterterrorism use. The Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS), with its 9,000 Border Patrol agents, 4,500 in... ...est border, criminal aliens, and a growing backlog in the applications for naturalizing immigrants.The White House, the Justice Depart- ment, and abov... ...ost at will, State initiated significant reforms to its watchlist and visa-processing policies. In 1993, Con- gress passed legislation allowing State ... ...hilosophy or our approach” even though the terrorist threat had grown.They outlined an eight-part strategy “to be more proactive and aggressive.”The f... ... the Y emeni and American investigations proceeded.Within a few weeks, the outline of the story began to emerge. 128 On the day of the Cole attack, a ...

...Excerpt: We present the narrative of this report and the recommendations that flow from it to the President of the United States, the United States Congress, and the American people for their consideration. Ten Commissioners--five Republicans and five Democra...

...CONTENTS List of Illustrations and Tables ix Member List xi Staff List xiii?xiv Preface xv 1. ?WE HAVE SOME PLANES? 1 1.1 Inside the Four Flights 1 1.2 Improvising a Homeland Defense 14 1.3 National Crisis Management 35 2. THE FOUNDATION O...