Following 9/11 there was a sense of fear like no other into the minds of the American people. This fear was if Americans were safe from terrorist groups entering the US, and the trauma from what some Americans experienced on 9/11. In his novel, John Botte reflects on his thoughts after experiencing ground zero, "Along with thousands of others who lost loved ones to 9/11, I relive the events of that day every day” (Botte 5). Botte’s statement accurately reflects the emotions of many Americans, and
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of Osama bin Laden: Effect on Al-Qaeda Al-Qaeda, a terrorist organization, boasts of a globe-spanning conglomerate with franchises far and wide. Unfortunately, the organization was dealt a blow when their founding father, Osama bin Laden, was killed in an operation by U.S. commandos in the military garrison city of Abbottabad, Pakistan. Though the death of Osama was a setback to Al-Qaeda, the group is still classified as a “Foreign Terrorist Organization” by the U.S. State Department, “Proscribed
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By 2000, the full plans for the attack on the World Trade Centers were close to being finished and the first parts of the plans were being implemented. In 2000, the Al Qaeda chosen suicide pilots began their official flight training in Venice, Florida (Inside 9/11: War on America). Also in that same year, radical Islamists planned and implemented another attack on the United States. In October, they attacked the U.S.S. Cole, a warship, located of the coast of Yemen. Using suicide bombers, they successfully
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September 11, 2001, a terrorist group by the name of the “Al-Qaeda” set a plan to attack the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. There were nineteen people that were affiliated with this attack, fifteen of them were from Saudi Arabia, and the other four people were from United Arab Emirates, Egypt, and Lebanon. There were four teams and each team had a highly trained pilot hijacker, all four of these hijackers were trained in South Florida before boarding the planes. United Airline Flight 11 from Boston
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fund, train and otherwise encourage groups in the Middle East. The Soviet Union and its Middle Eastern proxies also sponsored Marxist terrorist groups in Europe and Latin America. They even backed the Japanese Red Army terrorist group. Places like South Yemen and Libya became havens where Marxist militants of many different nationalities gathered to learn terrorist tradecraft, often instructed by personnel from the Soviet KGB or the East German Stasi and from other militants. The Cold War also spawned
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Al Qaeda Aims at the American Homeland “Jihad against the Americans,” Bin Laden addressed in the 9/11 Commission Report. It is the official report of the events leading up to the September 11, 2001 attacks. Bin Ladin was not the first to introduce this plan to attack the twin towers; the organization and origins of the 9/11 plot was created by three subordinate commanders: Khalid Sheikh Mohammed (KSM), Riduan Isamuddin (known as Hambali), and Abd al Rahim al Nashiri. Most of the attention and
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Information sharing between federal, state and local levels How much information is shared? Since 9/11, the Federal government has underscored the need of an information sharing strategy that would allow dissemination of information across the federal, state and local levels. After 9/11, the Federal Bureau of Investigation focused on gathering information about the threat outside the United States borders (Leonard, 2009, p. 67). However, FBI still emphasis on information gathering about domestic
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Invasive Security: Does it Work Bruno Gerardo Introduction to Canadian Aviation (MOS 1022F) Dr. Suzanne Kearns 23 November, 2011 Abstract On September 11, 2001, the world watched in terror as America was under attack. As a result of these events, the aviation industry was restructured to improve reliability and security of commercial air travel. Although the new security changes have improved the overall safety of air travel, concerns have been raised that the changes introduced are
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Terrorism Gina York HIS/135 December 16, 2012 Brian Russell Terrorism History shows us that nearly all countries around the world have at some point have been at war. They may have been the country that perpetrated the attack or possibly the one being attacked. The cause of the war often becomes clouded and after a while no one remembers what the real reason was to start with only that they are in fact in a war. America will, without hesitance or falter, offer assistance if needed. Because
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them as savages or maybe even terrorist. Then we turned to secure our borders to prevent other nations from coming into our nation and grabbing up land. Then our pursuit of freedom expanded the globe and with other nations as we assisted in the attempt to spread democracy in countries struggling to become nations. In this attempt, there have been many enemies formed that despise the US and the pursuit of freedom. This has become a major concern of the US and on September 11, 2001, this concern became
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