...Mrs. Ray 9th Grade Lit 4 December, 2014 Assassination Essay What would you do if you were relaxing at home on a peaceful afternoon with your family and the United States military raided your house and covered all exits? This is how Osama Bin Laden was assassinated. The definition of an assassination is to murder a prominent person by a sudden or secret attack, often for political reasons. Osama Bin Laden was a prominent member and leader of Al-Qaeda. He is best known because of his infamous terrorist attack on the World Trade Center on New York City known as 9/11. His assassination was justified. Firstly, Osama Bin Laeden was in a home worth 1...
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...2001 thousands of Americans got to experience that. Osama Bin Laden was a terrorist who was responsible for the attack on the Twin Towers on 9/11. He was tracked for 6 years and finally killed on May 2, 2011, by the U.S. Navy. The assassination of Bin Laden was justified, because he was a terrorist who killed thousands of americans however: some people were against killing him. Bin Laden was a founder and leader of the notorious terrorist group ,Al Qaeda, that is responsible for many attacks on America. :”Al Qaeda is a global militant Islamist organization founded by Osama Bin Laden and others.” (Wikipedia 1)” U.S. intelligence officials believe Bin Laden was responsible for many acts of terrorism, including the 1998 bombings of U.S. embassies and the 9/11 attacks.” (History 1) These terrorist attacks killed millions of innocent Americans, the assassination was just....
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...to war because of the attacks on the twin towers on 9/11 and the fact that the leader that orchestrated these attacks, Osama Bin laden, according to Intel, was hiding out there. The goal of this war was to up root the Taliban from power and create a stable democracy, and to hunt Osama Bin Laden down for his crimes against the United States. In this paper I will be elaborating why this war was justified by these reasons; the fact that Al-Qaeda killed and expressly aims to kill U.S. citizens and, the Taliban in Afghanistan have partnered with al-Qaeda, harboring a known United States enemy named Osama Bin Laden, threating other democratic countries of their freedom including their own. The different historical interpretations of the event, and the positive and negative outcomes of this event will be elaborated on also. On Tuesday morning on September 11 2001, 19 terrorists from the Islamic terrorist group al-Qaeda hijacked four passenger planes. These terrorists intentionally crashed two of these planes in to the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center in New York. Another plane was purposely crashed into the pentagon and one crashed in a field in Pennsylvania. Roughly 3000 people lost their lives that day. These attacks were a direct attack on the United States. Believed to be behind these attacks was a terrorist named Osama bin Laden. Osama bin Laden was the founder of the group al-Qaeda, the same group behind the attacks on 9/11. He was thought to be hiding in Syria...
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...the United States and the effects run deeper death and destruction and are displayed through changes in American law and culture. First, a leading cause towards the 9/11 attacks is the United States’ foreign policy which favors Israel over Palestine in the Israel-Palestine Conflict. Israel and Palestine have been been conflicting since the mid 20th century due to issues that involve the control of the Gaza Strip and Jerusalem. Primarily, the issue involves the Israeli Jews and the Palestinian Muslims Osama Bin Laden, the leader of the Al Qaeda was anti-Semitic (a hatred of Jews), took favor of the Palestinians. United States military supporting Israel, which led to deaths of many Palestinians, obviously upset bin Laden and fueled his hate towards Americans even more. Bin Laden stated in his Letter to America: “Why are we fighting and opposing you? The answer is very simple: (1) Because you attacked us and continue to attack us. a) You attacked us in Palestine.” Bin Laden goes on to explain his hate for Israel, “The creation of Israel is a crime which must be...
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...The planned attack on the White House was thwarted when passengers on the plane confronted the terrorist and caused the plane to crash in a field in Pennsylvania. Immediately and for the first time in U.S. history, air traffic nation wide had been halted. Nearly three thousand people were killed in these attacks. This tragic event was planned and financed by Al Qaeda leader Osama Bin Laden and was just one step in his proclaimed "Holy War" against the United States and its allies. Bin Laden believed that the Muslim world should unite in this war against the United States and hoped that the September 11th actions would provoke the U. S. into retaliating thus giving cause for the Muslim nations to band together in a world wide effort to destroy the United States. Bin Laden's reportedly justified this attack by saying that it was in retaliation for the U.S.'s support of Israel, its role in the Persian Gulf War and its continued presence in the Middle East. He was also angered by the United States support of efforts against Muslims in Somalia, Chechnya and Kashmir. There are those who believe that Bin Laden was so opposed to the United States that this attack was perpetrated to carry through on his promise to " destroy and bankrupt" the United States and the targets chosen would...
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...Introduction The United States first began the invasion of Afghanistan in October of 2001. Since then, the ensuing war has taken many turns, the most significant of which came when Al Qaeda's figurehead and 9/11 mastermind Osama Bin Laden was captured from Afghanistan. The two statements that just followed provide a significant number of anomalies to foreign policy experts. Firstly, the country of Afghanistan never declared war on the United States or ever officially threatened its sovereignty. Secondly, the main aim for the U.S invasion of Afghanistan, at least in theory was to capture and kill Osama Bin Laden and Al Qaeda, but has since not only shifted to become a war against the Taliban but also another exercise in nation building. Thirdly, though America (at least publicly) had been chasing Osama Bin Laden in Afghanistan, he was ultimately captured from about an hour's drive from Pakistan's capital city of Islamabad. Fourthly, Osama Bin Laden's assassination came after a blatant violation of Pakistan's national sovereignty by American special forces and without the knowledge of its infamously strong military. Fifthly, Osama Bin Laden's body was disposed in secrecy, and though the opportunity was there to bring the most wanted man in the world to trial, it was deemed unsuitable for the American cause to do so. However, all these concerns though important, are dwarfed when compared to the American policy of conducting drone attacks within Pakistani borders. Interestingly...
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...terror? Al Qaeda started its war against America by carrying out the simultaneous bombings of our embassies in Kenya and Tanzania in August 2008, the bombing of the USS Cole in October 2000 and what pulled the United States into the global war on terrorism, September 11, 2001. What I will be discussing will be the political atmosphere after September 11th and the roles of our government officials and intelligence agencies. America is supposed to be a country of human rights and not to inflict cruel and unusual punishment on criminals sentenced in our own penal system. Where have we as a nation fallen? I do not believe that torturing or using “enhanced interrogation techniques” will give us the upper hand in the global war on terror. Who ultimately authorized the United States to enter into torturing another human being? The United States became aware of abuses and torturing of detainees from the Abu Ghraib scandal in Afghanistan in April 2004. Detainees underwent serious mistreatment, torture, threatened with dogs and other degrading situations. The photography of the military captors were released to the press and made public. The United States government was handling the situation as an “isolated” incident. This as we know was now are aware, this was not an isolated incident. The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) was operating top secret “Black Sites” and Guantanamo Bay,...
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...Securitization Theory Author Institution Course title Instructor Date Critically discuss the securitization theory – using the case study of War on terror in Afghanistan (2001-2012) Introduction Security study was in the past regarded as a sub-discipline of international relations underpinned in Anglo-American thinking. Until early 1990s, security studies were considered as a strategic studies focusing on a strong military focus. This traditional view of security involved the protection of the state and a scientific agenda to secure the state from definable threats and maintain the status quo. This is a positivist approach which was based on rationalism and realism. The Copenhagen School presented an alternative view of security studies by responding to the traditional approach of forming a clear sense of ‘what is security’. This approach is defined in three mechanisms: development of sectors approach to security, developing a regional focus on security and critically engendering a social constructivist theory of security through securitization studies. This theory will be the main focus of this discussion. To achieve a critical discussion of what securitization really entails, this paper will use the case study of USA’s war on terrorism in Afghanistan. The approach used by the US government to fight against terrorism in Afghanistan and Iraq can be considered as a securitization approach which has led to a resulted in security problems in the two countries rather...
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...surprised and had their attention caught right when the first plane hit. “Hundreds of thousands of people witnessed the attacks firsthand, and millions watched the tragedy unfold live on television.” (qtd. in “September 11 attacks.”). No one knew at first what had happened. Suddenly, seventeen minutes later, a second plane struck the south tower of the World Trade Center (Greenberg). People began running in fear and confusion from the twin towers. At 9:43 A.M. a third plane crashed into the Pentagon, and took out one of the governments military wings (Greenberg). The last attempt of the day took place in a field in Pennsylvania. The plane was supposed to land in Washington D.C., but was sent into a Pennsylvania field by passengers onboard who had heard of the other numerous terrorist...
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...essay The misinterpretation of Jihad, as a form of violence. Words: 2000 Our society today faces the greatest challenge in the form of terrorism threatening countless lives and shattering those very ideals that sustain humanity. The misinterpretation of jihad is the primary cause behind many terrorist activities in the recent times. The misinterpretation of this word was first started by Ali ibn Tahir al-Sulami, He was a Damascene jurist and a pious Muslim who was the first to preach jihad against the crusaders in the aftermath of the First Crusade. He was one of the first to misconstrue jihad and preach the misinterpretation of jihad .He wrote the book Kitab Al- Jihad which means “book of the holy war”. In this book he proposes for the first time Jihad as a means of warfare against non-believers. “If he did not undertake the sending of enough troops to fight, those who are absent (must) go out, and consider as an obligation that which God (who is praised) said.” The above excerpts explicitly prove the aggressive nature of his ideology and the eventual misinterpretation of Jihad. The above statement suggests to Muslims if god didn’t send enough men to war against non-Muslims then it is the obligation of every Muslim to fight this war against non-believers. This concept was shouted through speakers in mosques and had a lot of audience hence the impact it had on Muslims was much more. His concept of jihad as warfare...
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...The War in Afghanistan: Was it Justified? Quite a controversial topic, the invasion and subsequent war in Afghanistan has affected people in the US, Georgia, Germany, Turkey, Romania, Italy, the UK, Australia and the civilians of Afghanistan themselves. Typically, people justify the invasion by looking at the horrific terror attacks carried out on September 11th, 2001 by members of Afghan based terror group Al Qaeda. But is this really enough justification? To many it is, including 44th president Barack Obama, who when questioned “why America and our allies were compelled to fight a war in Afghanistan in the first place,” replied: “We did not ask for this fight. On September 11, 2001, nineteen men hijacked four airplanes and used them to murder nearly 3,000 people. They struck at our military and economic nerve centers. They took the lives of innocent men, women and children without regard to their faith or race or station. . . . As we know, these men belonged to al Qaeda – a group of extremists who have distorted and defiled Islam....
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...Since 1996, the Taliban has created an environment of terror and disorder within the country of Afghanistan. Although terrorists within Afghanistan and of the Islam religion believe that they are justified in their actions, it is made clearly apparent that Terrorism must be stopped altogether. Terrorism is translated to mean ‘army in the shadows’ and is defined as the threat or use of violence to win certain rewards or goals (Dictionary.com, 2010). The earliest known Terrorist organization similar to those of today was the Zealots of Judea, formed when fanatics of the Jewish faith revolted against the of the Roman oppression. They carried on an underground campaign wherein they assassinated Roman occupation forces and Jews that they believed had collaborated with the Romans. However, the first time that the word ‘terrorism’ was used was during the French Revolution which is referred to as the ‘Reign of terror’. During this time the Jacobins who ruled with violence at that time, would sometimes refer to themselves as ‘terrorists’ (terrorism-research.com). Since then, there have been other leaders and people seeking power using terrorism as a weapon. These include the Russian dictator, Joseph Stalin, and Adolf Hitler, a man responsible for the murder of over 6 million people. The Taliban itself took control of Afghanistan in 1996 and were in power until 2001. During this time however, they were not accepted by the world’s community because their policies were considered...
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...SOC 802-Section01 (Fall 2010) - Issues in War and Peace | Essay Topic # 4: Soldiers, Freedom Fighters, and Terrorists | | | Wais Ghafoori | 11/10/2010 | There are profound differences between the soldiers, freedom fighters, and terrorists; there are no profound differences between them; the whole issue is a matter of the observers’ viewpoint, or interests | Is there a difference between soldiers, freedom fighters, and terrorists? Some may believe there is. Others believe the opposite. To others it may be the observers’ viewpoint or interests. However, I believe it can go anyway. At certain cases there are significant differences between soldiers, freedom fighters, and terrorists. And at other moments they are all the same. I will be examining all sides; whether soldiers, freedom fighters, and terrorists are different or there are no differences between them or it may be in the observers’ viewpoint or interests. One cannot truly understand whether there is a difference or not without understanding all sides of the topic. In a way, once understanding all view points, one would be able to give a more appropriate opinion which they could support or make an assumption about the different sides of this topic while critically assessing all sides. People see terrorists as the enemy, when the terrorist is attacking them or their land/nation. However, the soldiers are seen as heroes when attacking the land of people which the terrorists come from. ...
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...September 11, 2001 is better known as “9/11” to Americans who experienced this time in our history. 9/11 was a bad terrorist attack in which over 3000 people, including more than 400 police officers and firefighters, were killed. Almost 10,000 others suffered injuries. An Islamic gang of religious extremists called Al-Qaeda hijacked four airplanes and carried out suicide attacks against targets in the United States. Two of the planes crashed into the towers of the World Trade Center in New York City, a third plane hit the Pentagon just outside Washington, D.C., and the fourth plane crashed in a field in Pennsylvania. Following these dire events, the American people went began to see people of Muslim and Eastern descent differently as well as treat them differently. Innocent people were accused and convicted of crimes because of their national origin. This was an unfair but popular practice in the days and months following 9/11....
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...Was the invasion of Iraq, justified? That is a question that American society struggles with today. It is a highly debatable issue, with some for and some against. But what led up to it and why did we invade Iraq? In this paper, I will look at the facts, rumors, and mere coincidences that overshadow this highly controversial debate. I will also speak on personal experience, when I was deployed to that region. As we all know, in September of 2001 a great tragedy struck this great nation. On the morning of September 11th, terrorists hijacked four passenger planes. Two of the planes, struck one of the World Trade Center Tower’s. One plane hit the pentagon, while the fourth plane was enroute to Washington D.C., crashed in Pennsylvania. Nearly three thousand people lost their lives in these horrible events. It has been since Pearl Harbor since that large of an attack happened on American soil. President George W. Bush was our Commander-in- Chief, his approval ratings before these attacks were not bad, but not great. His rating, which was done by the Gallup poll was around 55%, give or take. The economy was heading into a recession. How this all comes into play, is the theory that war boosts the economy. Companies are given contracts to build equipment and clothing for the military in return they hire more employees to keep up with the demand. Not only do unemployment numbers decrease, spending increases which help boost an ailing economy. There are a lot of conspiracy theories...
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