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 Upon the United States

• ISBN13: 9781577363415
• ISBN10: 1577363418
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2004-09-30
• Publisher: Turner Pub Co

Summary

Before nineteen hijackers could commit the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, they passed through U.S. border security sixty-eight times. In all, they had twenty-five contacts with consular officers and forty-three contacts with immigration and customs authorities-none of whom suspected they were al Qaeda operatives. In the words of the 9/11 Commission's Executive Director, this staff report "offered substantial information or analysis that was not well represented in the Commission's report." The National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States was established by law in November 2002. Congress and President George W. Bush gave this independent, bipartisan Commission the mandate to study, evaluate, and report on "immigration, nonimmigrant visas and border security" as these areas relate to 9/11. Book jacket.

Table of Contents

Note from the Executive Director	p. vii
Preface	p. ix
Introduction: a Factual Overview of the September 11 Border Story	p. 3
The September 11 Travel Operation: a Chronology	p. 11
Terrorist Entry and Embedding Tactics: 1993-2001	p. 47
The Redbook	p. 47
Terrorist Travel Tactics by Plot	p. 48
Al Qaeda's Organizational Structure for Travel and Travel Tactics	p. 58
Immigration and Border Security Evolve: 1993 to 2001	p. 69
The Intelligence Community	p. 69
The State Department	p. 70
The Immigration and Naturalization Service	p. 89
Planning and Executing Entry for the 9/11 Plot	p. 111
The State Department	p. 111
The Immigration and Naturalization Service	p. 130
Finding Fair Verdicts	p. 140
Crisis Management and Response: Post-September 11	p. 147
The Intelligence Community	p. 147
The Department of State	p. 148
The Department of Justice	p. 150
Response at the Borders, September 11-20, 2001	p. 160
The Department of Homeland Security	p. 163
Travel and Identification Documents Digital Images	p. 169
The Saudi Flights	p. 171
Immigration Histories of Certain Individuals with Terrorist Connections	p. 187
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