The 9/11 Commission Report - Teaser Tuesday (21 Oct. 2014)

Teaser Tuesday is a weekly bookish event held by MizB at

Anyone can join in – just do the following:

                                                                                      ·         Grab your current read

                                                                                      ·         Open to a random page

                          ·         Share two (2) teaser sentences from somewhere on that page

                ·         BE CAREFUL NOT TO INCLUDE SPOILERS! (make sure that what you share doesn’t give too much away. You don’t want to ruin the book for others!)

              ·         Share the title and author too, so that other TT participants can add the book to their To Be Read (TBR) lists if they like your teasers

Last week I shared a teaser from Jules Verne's "Around the World in Eighty Days," which I'm still reading this week. In fact, I'm 'half way through' quite a number of books, of both fact, fiction, and somewhere in between.

And it is somewhere in between that I'm sharing for Teaser Tuesday today.

The 9/11 Commission Report - The Attack from Planning to Aftermath is proclaimed as the authorized text on the whole dark saga. Here is the teaser:

"The threat of terrorists hijacking commercial airliners within the United States - and using them as guided missiles - was not recognized by NORAD before 9/11 . . . . . On the morning of 9/11, the existing protocol was unsuited in every respect for what was about to happen."

NORAD refers to the North American Aerospace Defence Command.

It's a very interesting read, though I highly doubt the truth behind all the events of that fateful day are contained in the pages of this book. Of that I don't think we will ever know. It remains, however, that hundreds of innocent people lost their lives on that day.

What are your thoughts on 9/11? Did you find the teaser intriguing? Eye-opening? Would you read the book?