concentrations of violent attacks in time and space. In their study, they are referring to highly concentrated series of attacks as ??micro-cycles.?? The authors draw on recent research demonstrating that individual crimes elevate the risk for subsequent crimes termed ??near repeats.?? They use data from the DHS and START supported Global Terrorism Database (GTD) analyze over 4,000 terrorist attacks attributed to the FMLN in El Salvador and ETA in Spain. These two terrorist organizations were both
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between the United States and the countless terrorists of ISIS, Al Qaeda and others. The Naval Station detention camp located in Cuba, referred to as Guantanamo Bay or Gitmo (GTMO), holds prisoners, or detainees, who have been involved in terrorist activities. Some believe that Gitmo should be closed because of recent torture stories involving U.S. officials on the prisoners of the camp. They surmise that by closing Gitmo, tensions with the terrorists will lessen, which is far from true. Closing
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University of Phoenix The USA Patriot policy paper The Patriot policy developed, after the horrible events of 9/11 attacks. It was in power to ensure that Americans would never have to deal with a tragedy as such again happening, to our beloved society and citizens. That we will protect and secure from the United States enemies and will be better equip, to prevent threats and attacks that are foreign and domestic. A paper we will discuss our point, of view of the Patriot Act and the related legislation
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Muslims and Arabs in an accurate aspect. The western media uses certain techniques to depict terrorists in their own view which have had disastrous effects on Arabs as well as Americans all over the world. It is very unfortunate that despite all the recent terrorist attacks, weather they were significant or minor, the media still has not come up with a definitive definition of “terrorism” and “who is a terrorist”. The main issue with western media reporting on terrorism is their flaw of having discrepancies
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Muslim is expected to commit a terrorist attack during that same timespan. The denouncing of Muslim assaults is made to seem so prevalent in America when most are not even traced back to Middle Easterners. Many Americans assume Middle Easterners are related to terrorist attacks due to the media's profound influence in creating Islamophobia in political news coverage. Violent assaults in recent years made by those who believe that all Middle Easterners are the Muslim terrorist have impacted the lives of
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Both President George Bush and Prime Minister Tony Blair delivered speeches after the September 11, 2001, terrorist attack on the World Trade Centers and the Pentagon. It was during this time that the United States desperately needed support and direction in terms of how it was going to deal with the most detrimental terrorist attack in history. The attack took America by surprise, and many people were in constant fear for their lives and their country. Because of this state of trauma that the nation
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September 9, 2001 the city of New York was attack by terrorists, which end up in destroying the World Trade Tower buildings and taking the life of over 2,700 people in the attack. It took nearly a year of around the clock worker to remove debris and recover bodies from the destruction. Meanwhile debates were rage on how best to rebuild the World Trade Center and memorialize all the victims in the tragedy. The initial plans called for the rebuild to be completed by 10th anniversary of the attacks.
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the most well-known events in history however, there is one conspiracy in particular that has been heard by many throughout the nation. This conspiracy is that homeland security was behind the attack on 9/11. The reason that this conspiracy is thought to be true is because certain aspects of the 9/11 attack such as the Air force not intercepting the hijacked planes, the way in which the towers fell and the fact that an amateur pilot was able to crash into the pentagon so easily do not coincide with
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Purpose Terrorism is an often controversial subject. “One man’s freedom fighter is another man’s terrorist.” This is a well known quote that is often used to allude to the complexity of terrorism. Terrorism, the word itself is a word that has possessed over a hundred definitions and a concept that has changed as the societies of the world have progressed. The use of the terms terrorism and terrorist are politically weighted, and are often used for a polarizing effect, where 'terrorism' becomes simply
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Where is the balance between civil rights and national security? While the Patriot Act allows the US government the ability to monitor terrorists, drug cartels, and attacks on US soil, this law should not give government agencies the right to invade US citizens’ privacy. Did this law that was passed, soon after the 9/11 attacks, go too far in the name of national security? Are the seizures, wiretaps, and physical searches that are required to have probable cause sometimes overlooked? In several
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