The 9/11 Commission was formed in 2002 after the events of September 11, 2001 to investigate what really happened (Entman & Stonbely, 2018). It was headed by former New Jersey Governor Thomas Keen (Hughes, 2020). The 9/11 attack in America is a series of coordinated terrorist acts that took place on September 11, 2001 in New York and Washington (USA) (Entman & Stonbely, 2018). As a result of the terrorist attacks, 2,974 people were killed (not including terrorists), 24 were missing. Citizens of the United States and 91 other states were killed (Entman & Stonbely, 2018). In particular, the Commission’s 9/11 investigation was supposed to consider the circumstances surrounding the causes of the tragedy of that day. It was also stated that there was an obvious need to allocate additional funding to ensure the security of members of Congress.
The Commission’s report was published on July 22, 2004 (Norris, 2019). It announced that a series of terrorist attacks was conceived, prepared and carried out by the Al-Qaeda organization (Johnson, 2018). Mohammed Atta’s luggage was detained at Boston Logan Airport. Documents revealing the identities of all 19 terrorists and a detailed description of the planned attacks were found in it (Johnson, 2018). The Commission’s agency intercepted several messages pointing to Osama Bin Laden as the organizer of the terrorist attacks (Norris, 2019). The ideologist of the air attack on America is Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, who, in an interview with an Al Jazeera correspondent in September 2002, called himself the head of the Al Qaeda military council (Johnson, 2018). He was arrested in Pakistan on March 1, 2003, and fully admitted his guilt (Norris, 2019). The report of the 9/11 Commission states that Khalid Sheikh Mohammed’s hostility to America is caused by an aggressive rejection of the US foreign policy supporting Israel.
References
Entman, R., & Stonbely, S. (2018). Blunders, scandals, and strategic communication in U.S. foreign policy: Benghazi vs. 9/11. International Journal of Communication, 12(28), 3024-3047.
Hughes, D. A. (2020). 9/11 truth and the silence of the IR discipline. Alternatives: Global, Local, Political, 71(4), 1-28.
Johnson, K. A. (2018). 9/11 and international student visa issuance. Journal of Studies in International Education, 22(5), 393-413.
Norris, J. J. (2019). Explaining the emergence of entrapment in post‑9/11 terrorism investigations. Critical Criminology, 27(16), 467-483.