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Commission on Terrorist Attacks to Hold First Meeting

NPR | By Jackie Northam

Published January 27, 2003 at 12:00 AM EST

An independent commission on terrorist attacks will meet on Monday for the first time. Created by Congress, the 10-member, bipartisan National Commission on Terrorist Attacks will assess the intelligence failures leading up to Sept. 11. NPR's Jackie Northam reports.

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Jackie Northam is NPR's International Affairs Correspondent. She is a veteran journalist who has spent three decades reporting on conflict, geopolitics, and life across the globe - from the mountains of Afghanistan and the desert sands of Saudi Arabia, to the gritty prison camp at Guantanamo Bay and the pristine beauty of the Arctic.

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