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A 12 page overview of the implications of the report released in July 2004 by the National
Commission on Terrorist Attacks. This paper reviews the reports recommendation that a National Counterterrorism Center (NCTC) and director be
created to consolidate the fragmented approach that is currently in place in regard to counterterrorism efforts. Bibliography lists 9 sources.
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12 pages (~225 words per page)
File: AM2_PPterrRp.rtf
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With the September 11, 2001 destruction of the World Trade Center in New York and the simultaneous plane attack on the Pentagon itself our government was shaken into the
realization that the contingency plans that we had in place to address terrorism were insufficient. These terrorist attacks, of course, were not the first we had experienced in this
country. The 1993 bombing of the World Trade Center had served as the first wake up call but evidently it was not sufficient to stir the government into the
realization that terrorism presented a very real threat not jut to the world but to our own country. Prior to the 2001 attacks our government had, in fact, felt
largely insulated by terrorism. The intensity of those attacks, however, left the world as a whole with the definite impression that even the most advanced nation in the world
was not immune to terrorism. These acts coupled with the horror of the 1993 bombing of the World Trade Center has made us exceptionally aware of the fact that
our political boundaries are no longer exempt from terrorist acts (Lindsey, Beach and Toigo, 2002). One of the products of that awareness is the so-called 9/11 Commission Report,
a report prepared by the ten member bipartisan National Commission on Terrorist Attacks, a joint House-Senate committee formed to investigate the problems that became evident with internal security on September
11, 2001 (Wertheimer, 2004). This report made numerous recommendations that, if implemented, would significantly affect the fifteen agencies that currently comprised the Intelligence Community (Wertheimer, 2004).
The 9/11 Commission Report reflects on the horrors of the September 11, 2001 acts of destruction and the events which unfolded after those acts. The
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