    [House Document 106-250]
    [From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]

    106th Congress, 2d Session - - - - - - - - - - - House Document 106-250

              THE REPORT OF THE NATIONAL COMMISSION ON TERRORISM

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                                 COMMUNICATION

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            THE COMMISSIONERS, THE NATIONAL COMMISSION ON TERRORISM

                                  transmitting

     A REPORT ENTITLED, ``COUNTERING THE CHANGING THREAT OF INTERNATIONAL
                    TERRORISM'', PURSUANT TO PUB. L. 105-277

    June 6, 2000.--Referred jointly to the Committees on the Judiciary and
               International Relations, and ordered to be printed
                              National Commission on Terrorism,

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                        U.S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE
    79-011                     WASHINGTON : 2000

                                          Washington, DC, June 7, 2000.
    Hon. J. Dennis Hastert,
    Speaker of the House of Representatives,
    Washington, DC.
        Dear Mr. Speaker: In accordance with the Omnibus
    Consolidated and Emergency Supplemental Appropriations Act of
    1999 (P.L. 105-277), we hereby submit the report of the
    National Commission on Terrorism.
        The Commission was established to review and assess the
    laws, regulations, policies, directives, and practices relating
    to combating international terrorism directed against the
    United States and recommend changes to improve U.S.
    counterterrorism performance.
        It has been an honor to serve.
                Respectfully submitted,
                        Ambassador L. Paul Bremer, III, Chairman; Maurice
                                Sonnenberg, Vice Chairman; Richard K.
                                Betts; Wayne A. Downing; Jane Harman; Fred
                                C. Ikle; Juliette N. Kayyem; John F. Lewis,
                                Jr.; Gardner Peckham; R. James Woolsey.