The Eleventh Day

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Americans celebrated the feared terrorist’s death, yet faced an uncertain future.

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NOTES AND SOURCES

ABBREVIATIONS USED IN NOTES AND SOURCES

AP

Associated Press

BG

Boston Globe

CF

Files of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks upon the United States, held at the National Archives, Record Group 148. Cited documents are listed here, as they are at the Archives, by folder name, box [B] and team [T] numbers. Many documents were supplied to the authors by an independent researcher, and others obtained on line via

www.scribd.com

or directly from the Archives.

CO

Website of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks upon the United States, archived at

http://govinfo.library.unt.edu/911/about.html

conv.

conversation

corr.

Authors’ correspondence

CR

Final Report of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks upon the United States, NY: W. W. Norton, 2004

FBI IG

Review of the FBI’s Handling of Intelligence Information Related to the September 11 Attacks, Office of the Inspector General, U.S. Department of Justice, November 2004

FEMA

Federal Emergency Management Agency, U.S. Department of Homeland Security

int.

interview (by authors unless otherwise noted)

INTELWIRE

FBI documents sourced in the notes of the 9/11 Commission Report, obtained by Intelwire under FOIA (Freedom of Information Act) and available on its website,

www.intelwire.com

JI

Joint Inquiry into Intelligence Community Activities Before and After the Terrorist Attacks of September 11, 2001, House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence and Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, 107th Congress, 2nd Session

KSM SUBST

Substitution for the Testimony of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, Defense Exhibit 941,

U.S. v. Zacarias Moussaoui

, Cr. No. 01-455-1, U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia

LAT

Los Angeles Times

MFR

Memorandum for the Record of 9/11 Commission staff interviews, available on National Archives website,

http://www.archives.gov/?legislative/?research/9-11/?commission-memoranda.html

NARA

National Archives and Records Administration

NIST

National Institute of Standards and Technology, U.S. Department of Commerce

NTSB

National Transportation Safety Board

NYT

New York Times

OBL

Osama bin Laden

TF

Oral histories of 503 first responders conducted by the Fire Department, City of New York, archived by

The New York Times

at

http://graphics8.nytimes.com/?packages/?html/?nyregion/?20050812_WTC_GRAPHIC/? met_WTC_histories_full_01.html

WP

Washington Post

WSJ

Wall Street Journal

PREFACE

1

memorial:

NY Daily News

, 8/20/01,

NYT

, 6/10/09,

www.wtcsitememorial.org

,

www.national911memorial.org/site

, int. Michael Frazier for National September 11 Memorial and Museum;

2

disease:

AP, 6/24/09.

3

tens of thousands:

Documenting the number of dead in any conflict is difficult, fraught as such figures are with political ramifications. Americans in particular, given the lingering specter of the Vietnam War, are sensitive to rising casualty counts among servicemen and women. Nor does any military readily accept responsibility for civilian casualties. The issue is further complicated by determining which deaths qualify as having been the result of war— does one, for example, include deaths due to disease or starvation—conditions brought about by conflict? In citing the figure of many tens of thousands of dead, the authors have relied on casualty counts from the U.N. Assistance