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Preface
1. "WE HAVE SOME PLANES"
1.1 Inside the Four Flights
1.2 Improvising a Homeland Defense
1.3 National Crisis Management
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)
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
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
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?
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
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
8. "THE SYSTEM WAS BLINKING RED"
8.1 The Summer of Threat
8.2 Late Leads--Mihdhar, Moussaoui, and KSM
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
10. WARTIME
10.1 Immediate Responses at Home
10.2 Planning for War
10.3 "Phase Two" and the Question of Iraq
11. FORESIGHT--AND HINDSIGHT
11.1 Imagination
11.2 Policy
11.3 Capabilities
11.4 Management
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
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
Appendix A: Common Abbreviations
Appendix B: Table of Names
Appendix C: Commission Hearings
Notes
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