9/11 and Terrorist Travel: A Staff Report of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States

by National Commission on Terrorist Attacks

Overview

Finally, the answer to the question people have asked since 9/11: "How DID the terrorists enter the United States?"

Before 19 hijackers could commit the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, they passed through U.S. border security 68 times. In all, they had 25 contacts with consular officers and 43 contacts with immigration and customs authorities—none of whom suspected they were al Qaeda operatives.This book includes the complete staff report Time.com called "tantalizing and important" and represents important investigative work by the staff, providing substantial information and analysis not fully represented in The 9/11 Commission Report.Now for the first time in book form, this report includes:

• Full color digital images of the travel documents used by the 9/11 hijackers
• A chronology of the 9/11 terrorist travel operation and the hijackers' contacts with U.S. border officials
• Complete, highly descriptive endnotes
• Detailed appendices

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781577363415
Publisher:	TURNER PUB CO
Publication date:	09/01/2004
Pages:	310
Product dimensions:	6.14(w) x 9.21(h) x (d)

Table of Contents

	Note from the Executive Director	vii
	Preface	ix
1	Introduction: a Factual Overview of the September 11 Border Story	3
2	The September 11 Travel Operation: a Chronology	11
3	Terrorist Entry and Embedding Tactics: 1993-2001	47
3.1	The Redbook	47
3.2	Terrorist Travel Tactics by Plot	48
3.3	Al Qaeda's Organizational Structure for Travel and Travel Tactics	58
4	Immigration and Border Security Evolve: 1993 to 2001	69
4.1	The Intelligence Community	69
4.2	The State Department	70
4.3	The Immigration and Naturalization Service	89
5	Planning and Executing Entry for the 9/11 Plot	111
5.1	The State Department	111
5.2	The Immigration and Naturalization Service	130
5.3	Finding Fair Verdicts	140
6	Crisis Management and Response: Post-September 11	147
6.1	The Intelligence Community	147
6.2	The Department of State	148
6.3	The Department of Justice	150
6.4	Response at the Borders, September 11-20, 2001	160
6.5	The Department of Homeland Security	163
Appendix A	Travel and Identification Documents Digital Images	169
Appendix B	The Saudi Flights	171
Appendix C	Immigration Histories of Certain Individuals with Terrorist Connections	187