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The 9/11 Commission Report Final Report of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States

By: Thomas H. Kean

...s down but we do not have a pilot report that did it. 233 As this exchange shows, Secretary Rumsfeld was not in the NMCC when the shootdown order was ... ...most worldwide organization.This organization included a financial support network that came to be known as the “Golden Chain, ” put together mainly b... ...Os). Bin Ladin and the “Afghan Arabs” drew largely on funds raised by this network, whose agents roamed world markets to buy arms and supplies for the... ...rises. In time, the former would encompass numerous companies and a global network of bank accounts and nongovernmental institutions. Fulfilling his b... ...linder, then discovered it to be bogus. 49 But while the effort failed, it shows what Bin Ladin and his associates hoped to do. One of the al Qaeda re... ...ulture of the newsroom. During the 1990s, the rise of round-the-clock news shows and the Internet reinforced pressure on analysts to pass along fresh ... ...04);White House transcript, President Bush interview with Bob Schieffer of CBS News,Apr. 17, 2002. 184.White House transcript, Rice interview with Eva... ...” Ibid. 6. See White House transcript, Rice interview with Scott Pelley of CBS,Aug. 2, 2002, p. 408; but see Rice’s statement to Bob W oodward:“In the... ... Involvement in the Septem- ber 11 Attacks, Sept. 18, 2001. On 60 Minutes (CBS, Mar. 21, 2004), Clarke said that the first draft of this memo was retu...

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