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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

...ed directly behind Lewin. Lewin had served four years as an officer in the Israeli military. He may have made an attempt to stop the hijackers in fron... ...onsible for all conflicts involving Muslims.Thus Americans are blamed when Israelis fight with Palestinians, when Russians fight with Chechens, when I... ... large numbers of scholars from U.S. universities pored over accounts from spies, com- munications intercepted by the armed forces, transcripts of rad... ...seized an Air France plane and landed it at Entebbe in Uganda, holding 105 Israelis and other Jews as hostages.A special Israeli commando force storme... ...i Arabian air force pilot to commandeer a Saudi fighter jet and attack the Israeli city of Eilat. Bin Ladin reportedly liked this proposal, but he ins... ...a last- minute push for a peace agreement between the Palestinians and the Israelis. 148 Some of Clarke’s fellow counterterrorism officials, such as t... ...r deter- mining the potential of new arrivals, for filtering out potential spies from among them, and for identifying recruits with special skills. Fo... ...ns are still real, even if the old Soviet enemy has been replaced by other spies. But the security concerns need to be weighed against the costs. Curr...

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