NEW YORK, July 21 (Xinhuanet) -- Family members of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, together with Bush administration officials and lawmakers were briefed on the Sept. 11 commission's final report Wednesday, a day before the findings will be made public.

    The report is not expected to conclude whether the Sept. 11 hijackings in 2001 could have been prevented in a bid to avoid finger pointing. A call for a cabinet-level "spy czar" to oversee the operations and budgets of the nation's 15 intelligence agencies was expected to be among the key recommendations.

    A group of victims' families that pushed hard for the creation of the commission has wanted to make sure that its suggestions arefollowed. "We do not want the recommendations and findings of thisreport to sit idly on a shelf until after the next attack. To do so would be to dishonor and defile the memories of our loved ones," the Family Steering Committee said in a statement.

    The long-awaited report is due to be released by noon Thursday.The commission's chairman, Thomas Kean, will present a condensed version of the findings to the public, and the full report will beavailable online and in bookstores.

    Even though some of the panel's 10 members apparently believed the hijackers could have been stopped, the report stops short of saying that. According to published reports, one reason is that the five Democrats and five Republicans who served on the panel did not want to open the door to accusations.

    Some details of the panel's findings have been leaking out. NewYork City Mayor Michael Bloomberg on Monday talked about the part of the report that the panel is expected to come down hard on New York City for not fixing communication problems among emergency responders.

    "They work well together, they work brilliantly together," themayor said. "Whenever you have 40,000 or 50,000 people, there will always be an occasional dispute. They tend to be at the lower level. They tend not to be serious," Bloomberg said. Enditem