“significantly influence feelings toward, or judgements about, a subject.” For example, Kristina Wong, journalist for The Hill, reports that Pentagon spokesman, Navy Captain Jeff Davis said, “AQAP (al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula) remains a significant threat to the region and the United States. Al Qaeda's presence has a destabilizing effect on Yemen.” Jeff Davis was speaking on recent
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The day happened to be May 1, 2011, the miltiary from the U.S.A killed al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden. He was finally defeated after all of those years that have past by. People still crying over the loss of their family members killed because of his horrible actions. He was found close to Islamabad, Pakistan. Intelligence officials are for certain, bin Laden was responsible for many deadly acts of terrorism, which may including the 1998 bombings of the U.S. Embassies in Kenya and Tanzania and
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The Cause and Effect of 9/11 By Cody Cross On September 11, 2001 One Of the Worst Attacks In United States History Happened. It was a Day nobody around or even born at that time will ever forget. I Was Six Years Old at The Time and Still remember where I was and when it happened. I remember everything that happened on that day to the tea. Where I walked and where I went to school. Even Though that was Fifteen Years Ago I will always remember the Day Of 9/11 and how it changed my Life. The
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The 9/11 attack had serious impact on the U.S economy both long term and short term. Many Americans during this crisis encountered financial disabilities, while the economy faced a recession. The damages done by 9/11 is largely vast but there a specific categories that it had impacted. The attack affected tourism, homeland security, defense spending, taxes and monetary policy, cost of War on Terror, and escalation and stalemate. The attack of 9/11 was done by airplane collisions, therefore
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The tragedy of 9/11 weakened many of people’s emotions and fears. Knowing that they were in a place of danger made people more fearful than they had ever been. The 9/11 tragedy occurred, hints the name, on September 11,2001, at the Twin Towers, and the Pentagon. It all started around 9:45 A.M., after that everything kept going downhill (Norton). At the time of 9:45 A.M., Flight 77 crashed into the Pentagon, everyone in the White House evacuated. Around 10:10 A.M., a section of the Pentagon had collapsed
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Have you ever wanted to know more about the terrorist attack on September 11th, 2001. There are so many things to know about what happened on that day. Like when and how the towers fell down; from the burning jet fuel that melted the concrete and steel that supported the actual building.. Or how there were people that would jump out of the sides of the buildings instead of staying in. There are other things like how the people in the building and in the planes made heart wrenching phone calls to
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It felt like it was a normal day in New York ,September 11,2001.It was sunny people were going to work.It seemed like any other day.But Everything changed in less than a second.Four planes were hijacked by a group al-qaeda. Which killed almost more than one thousand people. One day in New York there was an airplane that crashed but it wasn’t a regular plane crash.It was a terrorist attack.First one plane crashed in New York at 8:46am. The plane was traveling from Boston to Los Angeles
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involving four Airline planes. This moment in history scared our nation and left us wondering why anyone would ever let something like this happen. These four attacks were thought to have been led by an Islamic terrorist group called al-Qaeda. It consisted of 19 al-Qaeda terrorists getting on four different planes: American Airlines Flight 11 and United Airlines Flight 175, which were hijacked and sent flying into the North and South Towers of the World Trade Center in New York City, American Airlines
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Claims/Assumptions/Evidence. Their primary claim, is that the government’s explanation for the events that happened before, during, and after the incident have many inconsistencies. This has led them to believe that the government is covering up what really happened, and therefore are the ones guilty of conducting the terrorist attack. They take these inconsistencies and then find something that supports their claim and make connections that aren’t really there. For example, the FBI found some cell
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Initially, Al Qaeda began as a logistic organization and network that played a pivotal role in helping the Muslims to fight against the Soviet Union. During this time Afghan War was at its peak. Al Qaeda recruited its members across all the Islamic states to form a strong and formidable group for their protection. After the Soviet Union withdrew from Afghan, Al Qaeda dispatched and began opposing what their leaders considered as corrupt and the United States presence in Islamic countries. The group
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