...Preparedness of Raleigh Durham International Airport for a Terrorist Attack Daniel Hammer American Military University Spring 2011 Abstract This research paper will address the current security policies at Raleigh-Durham International Airport in Raleigh, North Carolina. The current security policies will be scrutinized and see if they are capable in deterring a terrorist attack. They will be compared and a number of fields, such as usefulness, cost effectiveness, and to foreign nations airport security policies, as well as other airports in America. Finally, the airport security policies will be checked for weak points and flaws that terrorists may utilize for an attack. Introduction to the Study America’s airports are a gateway in and out of the nation. Unfortunately, they are also a focus of terrorist attack. America’s airports have security measures in place to deter and stop terrorist attack, but are actually capable in doing so? Specifically, is Raleigh-Durham International Airport capable of withstanding a terrorist attack? How effective are the security measures in stopping a terrorist attack? Is the cost of the security measures reasonable? Are the security measures violating American rights? And, How effective are the security compared to both foreign nations, and to pre 9/11? These are the questions that will be addressed in this case study. Purpose of this Study ...
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...U.S. Department of Homeland Security Chris Cabral National American University Abstract The primary mission of the Homeland Security Act is to prevent terrorist attacks within the United States, reduce the vulnerability of the United States to terrorism, and minimize damage and assist in recovery for terrorist attacks that occur in the United States. The U.S Department of Homeland Security was established after the 9/11 attacks to counter terrorist activities against the United States. Homeland security is officially defined by the National Strategy for Homeland Security as "a concerted national effort to prevent terrorist attacks within the United States, reduce America's vulnerability to terrorism, and minimize the damage and recover from attacks that do occur”. The major objective of the Patriot Act is “to deter and punish terrorist acts in the United States and around the world to enhance law enforcement investigatory tools" by dramatically reducing restrictions pertaining to law enforcement requests to search telephone records, e-mail communication, and health records. The Patriot Act allows for the emergency disclosure of electronic communications to protect life and broadens the definition of terrorism to include acts of domestic terrorism. Under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, the Patriot Act allows the director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation or a designee of the director to apply for an order requiring the "production of any tangible things (including...
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...Intro: After the terrorist attacks of September 11th, 2001, President Bush and Congress reacted quickly and within one week of the attacks had adopted a joint resolution that gave the President the authority to use military force against any group or individual that was deemed to have any association with the al Qaeda terrorist network; specifically, any group or individual across the globe who was suspected of helping to aid in the planning of the attacks on the United States was now subject to the policing of the United States government (Jackson, 2010). This resolution and vow by President Bush and Congress to take on the war against terrorism resulted in massive military, law enforcement, and intelligence missions being launched in the Middle East and around other parts of the globe. These military and policing efforts resulted in thousands of detentions of citizens and non-citizens as potential suspects, however, in many cases, individuals being detained did not have formal charges placed against them, and they were merely being held on "suspicion" (Jackson, 2010). The most prominent example of indefinite detention of individuals is seen at Guantanamo Bay Naval Base in Cuba (GITMO). This pattern of indefinite detention of individuals who in many cases have never been charged with a crime has led to a multitude of legal challenges as prisoners have attempted to evoke their rights of habeas corpus in an attempt to get U.S. Federal Courts to hear their cases (Jackson, 2010)...
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...Intro: After the terrorist attacks of September 11th, 2001, President Bush and Congress reacted quickly and within one week of the attacks had adopted a joint resolution that gave the President the authority to use military force against any group or individual that was deemed to have any association with the al Qaeda terrorist network; specifically, any group or individual across the globe who was suspected of helping to aid in the planning of the attacks on the United States was now subject to the policing of the United States government (Jackson, 2010). This resolution and vow by President Bush and Congress to take on the war against terrorism resulted in massive military, law enforcement, and intelligence missions being launched in the Middle East and around other parts of the globe. These military and policing efforts resulted in thousands of detentions of citizens and non-citizens as potential suspects, however, in many cases, individuals being detained did not have formal charges placed against them, and they were merely being held on "suspicion" (Jackson, 2010). The most prominent example of indefinite detention of individuals is seen at Guantanamo Bay Naval Base in Cuba (GITMO). This pattern of indefinite detention of individuals who in many cases have never been charged with a crime has led to a multitude of legal challenges as prisoners have attempted to evoke their rights of habeas corpus in an attempt to get U.S. Federal Courts to hear their cases (Jackson, 2010)...
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...Since 9/11, we have seen the magnitude of attempts to shake our nation. Therefore, it required us to give up some of our civil liberties to ensure that there are no preemptive attacks on our country. The summary outlines some controversial issues with the United States of America Patriot Act to include: The authority to intercept – In this case under the Enhanced Surveillance Procedures the government have the right to wiretap your phone calls and intercept electronic communication media (Senate, 2001). Section 209. Seizure of voice-mail messages – the government have the permission to use one warrant nationwide to retrieve voice mails if probable cause is cited (Senate, 2001). Sec.215. Access to records – the government has the authority...
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...1. According to the 9/11 Commission Report (Chapter 11 – Foresight and Hindsight) “the 9/11 attacks revealed four kinds of failures: in imagination, policy, capabilities, and management.” Choose one of these categories and discuss how the U.S. government failed and what can be done in the future to avoid a similar failure. Although I feel that all of these categories can apply in some way or another, the category I choose to develop my question on is the failure of the management- both operational and institutional. From reading Chapter 11 Foresight and Hindsight in the 9/11 Commission Report, we can see how the management missed numerous opportunities in upsetting the 9/11 plot. According to the Commission’s Report the reasoning behind this is because “Information was not shared, sometimes inadvertently or because of legal misunderstandings. Analysis was not pooled. Effective operations were not launched. Often the handoffs of information were lost across the divide separating the foreign and domestic agencies of the government.” (The 9/11 Commission Report-Pg. 353) Al Qaeda adapted to the failure of our management operations to gain entrance into the United States. Presented in the chapter is an illustration of how operational management failed in protecting our homeland with the case of Mihdhar, Hazmi, and Salem and their trip to Kuala Lumpur. In brief summary, here are the operational opportunities that the United States missed in this case: “1. January 2000: The...
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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 invasive to privacy, and are an infringement of individual rights. Biometric and advanced imaging technology have been criticized for this reason, however, they have been effective at preventing further terrorist attacks. The purpose of this paper is to analyze the security measures that have been introduced as a result of September 11th 2001, and evaluate the effectiveness of the changes and how they impact both safety and privacy. Keywords: Biometrics, Advanced imaging technology, September 11 Invasive Security: Does it Work On September 11, 2001, the world watched in terror as America was under attack. Early that morning, four commercial airliners departed from Newark and Boston with arrivals at San Francisco and Los Angeles were taken over by nineteen hijackers (National Commission, 2004). Two of these aircrafts collided with the Twin Towers in New York City resulting in the destruction of both buildings. An additional aircraft flew into the Pentagon in Washington D.C, and...
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...Summary The only thing we have to fear is government intrusion in our lives. Potential government abuse of privacy from a programme designed to prevent another 9/11. I am unwillingly to the see the government engaging in using data mining to look for suspicious pattern in phone number called and email address.To prevent a day where, out of fear, we give government a license to look at anybody personal detail. They accessing it in ways that abuse individual liberties and violate personal privacy and in a manner that is unsupervised. Author tone The tone of the author is worried in second paragraph line 1 till 4 (Yes, i worry about potential government abuse of privacy from a programme designed to prevent another 9/11). Beside that , he also show the same expression in fourth paragraph line 1-2 (i worry about that even more).But in fourth paragraph line 3-4 , the tone of the author is caring (not because i don’t care about civil liberties, but because what i cherish most about America is our open society, and I believe that if there is one more 9/11).He show fearful tone in paragraph 5 line 1 to 7 (if there were another 9/11, i fear that 99 percent of Americans would tell their members of congress: “Do whatever you need to do , privacy be damned, just make sure this does not happen again.”) Purpose and intent The purpose of author is to inform us to be on guard for abuses and accessing private data from the government. The article is suitable to those working adult...
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...Undeserved Image". Emerson College. http://pages.emerson.edu/organizations/fas/latent_image/issues/1996-04/arabs.htm. Retrieved 17 May 2012. 4. 100 Years of anti-Arab and anti-Muslim stereotyping by Mazin B. Qumsiyeh 5. Why Hollywood Owes Me Money by Laila Lalami 6. Khalil, Ashraf (4 October 2007). "But can you play a terrorist?". http://articles.latimes.com/2007/oct/04/entertainment/et-arabactors4. Retrieved 17 May 2012. 7. The Portrayal of Arabs in American Media 8. Patrick Harrington interviews, Jack Shaheen, author of Reel Bad Arabs 9. Driving to Zigzigland – Official site. Retrieved Oct 2012. 10. War on terror drives Arab actor to "Zigzigland" Reuters, 14 Dec 2006. Retrieved 2 Oct 2012. 11. "Terror Probe Changes Face of Racial Profiling Debate". FOX News. 1 October 2001. http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,35521,00.html. Retrieved 17 May 2012. 12. "Official: 15 of 19 Sept. 11 hijackers were Saudi". USA Today. 6 February 2002. http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/2002/02/06/saudi.htm. Retrieved 17 May 2012. 13. MacFarquhar, Neil (1 June 2006). "Terror Fears Hamper U.S. Muslims' Travel". The New York Times....
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...Undeserved Image". Emerson College. http://pages.emerson.edu/organizations/fas/latent_image/issues/1996-04/arabs.htm. Retrieved 17 May 2012. 4. 100 Years of anti-Arab and anti-Muslim stereotyping by Mazin B. Qumsiyeh 5. Why Hollywood Owes Me Money by Laila Lalami 6. Khalil, Ashraf (4 October 2007). "But can you play a terrorist?". http://articles.latimes.com/2007/oct/04/entertainment/et-arabactors4. Retrieved 17 May 2012. 7. The Portrayal of Arabs in American Media 8. Patrick Harrington interviews, Jack Shaheen, author of Reel Bad Arabs 9. Driving to Zigzigland – Official site. Retrieved Oct 2012. 10. War on terror drives Arab actor to "Zigzigland" Reuters, 14 Dec 2006. Retrieved 2 Oct 2012. 11. "Terror Probe Changes Face of Racial Profiling Debate". FOX News. 1 October 2001. http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,35521,00.html. Retrieved 17 May 2012. 12. "Official: 15 of 19 Sept. 11 hijackers were Saudi". USA Today. 6 February 2002. http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/2002/02/06/saudi.htm. Retrieved 17 May 2012. 13. MacFarquhar, Neil (1 June 2006). "Terror Fears Hamper U.S. Muslims' Travel". The New York Times....
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...Bobby Barksdale October 16, 2012 Summary: The Logic of Suicide Terrorism As it was initially used in Lebanon in 1983, the tactic of suicide terrorism was later used in Israel and unfortunately expanded into what is now one of the most effective and deadliest tactics used to instill fear within the public. This problem has come to Israel and has been a regular security issue since its establishment there Suicide bombing is responsible for more than half of the terrorist attacks death since then. Targeting Israelis in public places where people are highly populated and killing innocent men women and children. Over the past ten years more than 750 have died as a direct result of these planned terrorist attacks. The use of suicide bombing has intensified not only in Israel but also in the U.S. , which experienced the gruesome affects of suicide bombers on September 11 2001. This outrageous action of terrorism devastated American and its defense system. Killing hundreds of innocent civilians on American soil with a airplanes. The chief spokesmen for al Qaeda went on to say after the brutal attack that “Those youths that destroyed Americans with their planes, they did a good deed. There are thousands more younger followers who looking forward to death like American look forward to living.” This statement shows the determination and willingness of those wanting to die for what in their eyes was the greater cause. The effect of these bombers...
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...The Enduring Traumas of Sept. 11 Summary In the essay “The Enduring Traumas of Sept. 11” written by Damon Linker, he addresses the attack that occurred on September 11th of 2001 with what he went through that day of the attack and how he feels about the United states war that has been occurring throughout the years of America history. On the morning of Sept.11, 2001 it was like any other day for Linker going to work from Fairfield, Connecticut to the street of 5th Avenue. At his cross-town stroll to the office of First Thing magazine where he heard a very loud roar out of nowhere and glammed upward to see a passenger jet which was alarming to him and it was before Sept, 11. Linker mostly spent his entire life in New York City which made him have the memories of the Twin Tower always being there but this time he witnessed a huge horizontal gash of the right-hand tower and a massive amount of smoke floating in the sky above it. He immediately call his wife to turn on the TV for the news about the freak accident he nearly witnessed. He then returned to the street and gaze in shock at the horrifying scene unfolding two miles away for him. He called his father which immediately reminds him of his younger brother whom was attending a conference on Wall street that morning. He talked to his father on the phone to about burying his youngest son later that week, Linker's brother. The crushing of the Twin Towers being worse than it could have been at least for him. Linker's other brother...
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...Mohsin Hamid, 2007 Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 184 pp. ISBN-13: 9780156034029 Summary Excuse me, sir, but may I be of assistance? Ah, I see I have alarmed you. Do not be frightened by my beard: I am a lover of America. I noticed that you were looking for something; more than looking, in fact you seemed to beon a mission, and since I am both a native of this city and a speaker of your language, I thought I might offer you my services as a bridge. From the author of the award-winning Moth Smoke comes a perspective on love, prejudice, and the war on terror that has never been seen in North American literature. At a café table in Lahore, a bearded Pakistani man converses with a suspicious, and possibly armed, American stranger. As dusk deepens to night, he begins the tale that has brought them to this fateful meeting. Changez is living an immigrant’s dream of America. At the top of his class at Princeton, he is snapped up by Underwood Samson, an elite firm that specializes in the “valuation” of companies ripe for acquisition. He thrives on the energy of New York and the intensity of his work, and his infatuation with regal Erica promises entrée into Manhattan society at the same exalted level once occupied by his own family back in Lahore. For a time, it seems as though nothing will stand in the way of Changez’s meteoric rise to personal and professional success. But in the wake of September 11, he finds his position in his adopted city suddenly overturned, and his budding...
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...Introduction --------------------------------------------------------- Page 3 Background of the topic and linked topic--------------------Page 5 Research Question--------------------------------------------------Page 9 Results----------------------------------------------------------------- Page 13 Conclusion------------------------------------------------------------Page 16 References------------------------------------------------------------Page 19 | Rough Draft Introduction- The reason that I chose this topic in homeland security is for the fact that I believe has an essential meaning and importance to all of us living in the United States. The department of homeland security has the duty of protect our home land from anything and anyone. This might include terrorist attacks and such. Many of us don’t even know what the purpose of the Department of Homeland Security is for, or what does it do and what does it protect. My priority is to leave that very clear to everyone and why will we always need this department in place no matter the ups and downs of our economy. It is very essential to have such department in place for the fact that we need to protect our land from any illegal activity or an attack to our people, we can’t afford another attack like the 9/11 one. A country with the guidelines and boundaries well organized, ordered, and secure will always guarantee a well front-line force. Unfortunately, people within our nation don’t like to keep our nation safe nor...
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...Introduction --------------------------------------------------------- Page 3 Background of the topic and linked topic--------------------Page 5 Research Question--------------------------------------------------Page 9 Results----------------------------------------------------------------- Page 13 Conclusion------------------------------------------------------------Page 16 References------------------------------------------------------------Page 19 | Rough Draft Introduction- The reason that I chose this topic in homeland security is for the fact that I believe has an essential meaning and importance to all of us living in the United States. The department of homeland security has the duty of protect our home land from anything and anyone. This might include terrorist attacks and such. Many of us don’t even know what the purpose of the Department of Homeland Security is for, or what does it do and what does it protect. My priority is to leave that very clear to everyone and why will we always need this department in place no matter the ups and downs of our economy. It is very essential to have such department in place for the fact that we need to protect our land from any illegal activity or an attack to our people, we can’t afford another attack like the 9/11 one. A country with the guidelines and boundaries well organized, ordered, and secure will always guarantee a well front-line force. Unfortunately, people within our nation don’t like to keep our nation safe nor...
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