This series contains intelligence reports and cables responsive to Commission requests to the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA); Director of Central Intelligence George Tenet's "We are at war" memorandum; threat assessments; congressional briefing summaries; Federal Bureau of Investigation 302 reports; memorandums for the record and notes of interviews conducted by Team 1 staff; potential questions for interviewees; drafts of document requests; materials used to prepare for some of the Commission's public hearings; transcripts of the U.S. v. Usama Bin Laden trial of 2001; transcripts of public testimony and interviews; published articles and monographs; copies of materials from the congressional Joint Inquiry into the events of September 11, 2001; Team 1 work plans; and other records used by Team 1 to examine issues relating to international terrorism and al Qaeda.
Subjects include al Qaeda and other international terrorist cells, including training and methods; the September 11, 2001, plotters; al Qaeda figures such as Ramzi Binalshibh, Abu Zubayda, Mustapha al Hawsawi, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, and Khallad Bin Attash; pre-September 11 terrorist attacks and plots; the United States Intelligence Community's efforts against terrorism since 1998; CIA staffing, particularly in the Counterterrorist Center; the attacks on the USS Cole and Khobar Towers; al Qaeda's relationship to Iraq and Iran; and the Millennium Plot.
