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	The 9/11 Commission Report: Final Report of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United ... National Commission on Terrorist Attacks W. W. Norton & Company, 2004 - 604 pages average customer review:based on 203 reviews view larger image
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The authorized hardcover, indexed edition of the national bestseller.

Nearly three thousand people died in the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. In Lower Manhattan, on a field in Pennsylvania, and along the banks of the Potomoc, the United States suffered the single largest loss of life from an enemy attack on its soil.

In November 2002 the United States Congress and President George W. Bush established by law the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States, also known as the 9/11 Commission. This independent, bipartisan panel was directed to examine the facts and circumstances surrounding the September 11 attacks, identify lessons learned, and provide recommendations to safeguard against future acts of terrorism.

This hardcover volume is the authorized edition of the Commission's final report, and includes a full index.

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9/11 Commission

An outstanding piece of scholarship; one of the most extensively researched, documented and balanced inquiry into the attacks of September 11, 2001 so far. The bipartisan panel created to answer the questions of what happened, how it could have and why, go to great lengths to assess the failures of the various agencies in the lead up to the attacks yet they fail to land a knockout blow with any of their conclusions. The Commission's insistence that their mandate should not call for them to apportion blame for the attacks belies belief considering the magnitude of the failure of each and every aspect of America's homeland security prior to the attacks.

The conlusions and recommendations at the book's end detracted from my appreciation for the book as a whole. Vague and ambitious recommendations were put forth, and so often they were jumbled with terrible sporting metaphors that seemed to trivialise the very serious nature of the failure of the US government to protect their own citizens. Moreover, despite the fact that this was a Commission charged with investigating the attacks on American soil on September 11, too often the concluding chapters confused the global "war on terror" from America's quest to protect its own security, or perhaps; hegemony. Reading the book as a non-American could be a frustrating experience given these shortcomings.

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There are some books you just need to have on hand for when somebody screaming on a blog starts misquoting said books. I didn't buy this book to read it cover to cover, but I'm glad I've got it to refer to when needed. This report certainly does not answer all the questions I have about why 9/11 was allowed to happen, but it's better than nothing. I just wish the Bush/Cheney administration would be held accountable for their atrocious lies and failures.

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