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With the fifth anniversary of September 11 drawing near, many related books are being released this and next week. One of the most intriguing is The 9/11 Report: A Graphic Adaptation by Sid Jacobson and Ernie Colon. Both have a rich history in comics: USA Today explains, "Jacobson, 76, created Richie Rich and was executive editor of Marvel and Harvey Comics, and Colon, 75, drew Casper and Wonder Woman" - but the book is a graphic interpretation of The 9/11 Commission's report on the events of Septemer 11, because they found it difficult to get through the 568-page report. Colon said, "For a government report, it was well written, but still hard to follow — lots of Arabic names, and a lot of things going on at the same time in different places." Slate has been excerpting the book, and from those excerpts, it seems to work very well.

For crying out loud. Thomas Kean and Lee Hamilton, the chairmen of the 9/11 Commission which convened in May 2004, now say they didn't ask Rudy Giuliani "hard questions". The Daily News has excerpts of their book, Without Precedent: The Inside Story of the 9/11 Commission:

"It proved difficult, if not impossible, to raise hard questions about 9/11 in New York without it being perceived as criticism of the individual police and firefighters or ... Giuliani," they said.

Continue reading "Thanks for Nothing, 9/11 Commission!"

Four years and not much done seems like the major prognosis from the 9/11 Commission. A year after the commission ended its inquiry, commission heads Thomas Kean and Lee Hamilton went on Meet the Press to slam the government's lack of initiative and gave the White House and Congress "D's and F's" on counter-terrorism reform. While the 9/11 Commission doesn't think they were used as a photo op, per se, they just don't think that much has been done since the report was completed. Read the Meet the Press transcript.

You can buy The 9/11 Commission Report at Amazon (the author is "National Commission on Terrorist Attacks ") or at a bookstore near you - it's $8 - or you can read the report for free, if you want to tackle it online via the PDF.