following the September, 11th 2001 (“9/11”) terrorist attack on the World Trade Center, Taisei Fire and Marine Insurance Co (TFMI) collapsed, due to catastrophic insurance claims of $2.5 billion. TFMI, together with two other Japanese companies, had a management agreement with Fortress Re, which pooled the funds of the companies to share the risks of reinsuring aviation portfolios. All four planes that crashed on the World Trade Center and other sites during the 9/11 attack were reinsured in the Fortress
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. 8 5.1 Dubrovka’s massacre ............................................................................................... 8 5.2 Beslan’s massacre .................................................................................................... 9 6. Conclusion
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Israel, and the elimination of Western influences from the Middle East. The Hezbollah terrorist group can be described as a loosely coupled, highly adaptive networked organization. The ability of the Hezbollah and its affiliates to conduct increasingly larger and more audacious terror operations over years, suggests a well-developed pattern of organizational learning. Hezbollah focus was to create a terrorist organization that promotes the doctrine associated with radicals in the Islamic nation
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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
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Iraq has not been found to have weapons of mass destruction. There are beliefs that former President George W. Bush simply waged war on Iraq because of their oil. Iraq as a country and the former President Saddam Hussein had no link to al-Qaeda terrorist group. The United States congress, based on wrong intelligence from the Bush’s administration agreed unanimously to go to war with Iraq, despite the fact that the Unites Nations disagreed with the decision. Because of the decision to wage war on
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A Case of Bureaucracy If you had told someone ten years ago, that it would be possible to feign an outright physical attack on a country through computers, they would have laughed at you and called you a madman. The sad truth is that this form of violence and terrorism, aptly called cyber terrorism, is no more a thing of the past and is very much possible in our technological and computer savvy world of today. The economic growths achieved by many countries due to such technological advancement
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1080/1353790052000313918 In his work “Was the Northern Ireland Conflict Religious”, Philip Barnes considers the true impact of religion on the Northern Ireland Conflict. He examines opinions of other scholars, provides a comparison of the event to Islam’s effect on 9/11, and uses logic to conclude religions true role in the matter. Barnes provides many arguments to support both sides of the case, but ultimately he concludes that while the conflict obviously has some relation to religion, religion was not the sole
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restraints that state sponsorship once imposed, terrorists can still enjoy the funding and protection that sponsorship provides”. The control of communication lines, extensive military capabilities, command of infrastructures such as pipelines, sophisticated military operations, management of complex administrative structures by the terrorist entities result of the terrorist group’ abilities to build a self-sustaining financial model. Recent terrorist attacks in Lebanon, France, Belgium and other places
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article begins with an account of early Al Qaeda attacks and the spectacular failures that ensued. The story begins in Yemen with an account of a series of attacks that occurred in the early 1990s. Bin Laden and his Al Qaeda operatives attempt to bomb two hotels in Aden where just two days prior up to 100 U.S. service members were being housed. While the attack failed and it left only two dead, the lessons learned were invaluable to the terrorist organization. Yemeni authorities found an arsenal
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Qaeda to attack Westerners. According to senior U.S. intelligence officials Al Qaeda affiliates in North Africa aspires to strike more U.S. and other western targets in the region (Herridge, 2013). Although there aren’t any confirmed reports or plotted events, U.S intelligence continuous to investigate these allegations and tips. The concerns are related to the attraction of foreigners by extremists the same way in which Afghanistan attracted foreigners prior to the 9/11 attacks.
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