9/11 Commission Report, formally titled Final Report of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States, is the official report of the events leading up to the September 11, 2001 attacks. It was prepared by the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States (informally sometimes known as the "9/11 Commission" or the "Kean/Zelikow Commission") at the request of the President of the United States and Congress.
Chapters
1 Preface 10 min 2 1. We Have Some Planes, 1.1 Inside the Four Flights 45 min 3 1.2 Improvising a Homeland Defense 1 h 8 min 4 1.3 National Crisis Management 33 min 5 2.1 A Declaration of War 7 min 6 2.2 Bin Ladin's Appeal in the Islamic World 17 min 7 2.3 The Rise of Bin Ladin and al Qaeda 15 min 8 2.4 Building an Organization 13 min 9 2.5 Al Qaeda's Renewal in Afghanistan 23 min 10 3. Counterterrorism Evolves, 3.1 From the Old Terrorism to the New 9 min 11 3.2 Adaptation--and Nonadaptation--in the Law Enforcement Community 32 min 12 3.3 ... and in the Federal Aviation Administration 14 min 13 3.4 ... and in the Intelligence Community 30 min 14 3.5 ... and in the State Department and the Defense Department 16 min 15 3.6 ... and in the White House 12 min 16 3.7 ... and in the Congress 15 min 17 4.1 Before the Bombings in Kenya and Tanzania 26 min 18 4.2 Crisis: August 1998 22 min 19 4.3 Diplomacy 21 min 20 4.4 Covert Action 29 min 21 4.5 Searching for Fresh Options 31 min 22 5.1 Terrorist Entrepreneurs 25 min 23 5.2 The "Planes Operation" 23 min 24 5.3 The Hamburg Contingent 33 min 25 5.4 A Money Trail? 15 min 26 6. From Threat To Threat, 6.1 The Millennium Crisis 25 min 27 6.2 Post-Crisis Reflection 28 min 28 6.3 The Attack on the USS Cole 25 min 29 6.4 Change and Continuity 23 min 30 6.5 The New Administration's Approach 41 min 31 7.1 First Arrivals in California 27 min 32 7.2 The 9/11 Pilots in the United States 24 min 33 7.3 Assembling the Teams 28 min 34 7.4 Final Strategies and Tactics 39 min 35 8.1 The Summer of Threat 37 min 36 8.2 Late Leads 38 min 37 9.1 Preparedness as of September 11 18 min 38 9.2 September 11, 2001 - part 1 1 h 12 min 39 9.2 September 11, 2001 - part 2 22 min 40 9.3 Emergency Response at the Pentagon 8 min 41 9.4 Analysis 31 min 42 10. Wartime, 10.1 Immediate Responses at Home 17 min 43 10.2 Planning for War 15 min 44 10.3 "Phase Two" and the Question of Iraq 22 min 45 11. Foresight--and Hindsight, 11.1 Imagination 31 min 46 11.2 Policy 9 min 47 11.3 Capabilities 8 min 48 11.4 Management 22 min 49 12.1 Reflecting on a Generational Challenge 15 min 50 12.2 Attack Terrorists and Their Organizations 28 min 51 12.3 Prevent the Continued Growth of Islamist Terrorism 25 min 52 12.4 Protect against and Prepare for Terrorist Attacks 48 min 53 13. How To Do It?, 13.1 Unity of Effort across the Foreign-Domestic Divide 24 min 54 13.2 Unity of Effort in the Intelligence Community 28 min 55 13.3 Unity of Effort in Sharing Information 9 min 56 13.4 Unity of Effort in the Congress 9 min 57 13.5 Organizing America's Defenses 19 min
