...Hello i’m Colin Hill with your breaking news. Today at 8.45 a.m a hijacked plane flew right into the North Tower and shortly after another hijacked plane flew right into the South Tower. The North Tower has already fallen and the South one is about ready to fall. We do not know how many are dead and how many are injured but stay tuned for more information later tonight on the 6 o'clock news. Its obvious that 9/11 was the worst terrorist attack this nation has ever seen. After reading that I am sure those who don’t know much about 9/11 have a lot of questions well I am going to answer a few of those question that they might have. How was Al Qaeda able to hijack the planes on 9/11. Al Qaeda was able to hijack the planes because they bought multi tools because at the time knifes with a blade smaller than 4 inches were allowed on the plane. They also took flight lessons and used a flying simulator that showed them what it will be like when they are driving and it showed them how to fly planes. The terrorists who were going to hijack the planes slipped thru holes in airport security which helped them bring explosives and other items that weren't allowed on planes. If...
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...Communication to terroirs If you mess with us, we will mess with you. Terrorism is a form of communication. The United States was going after the leader in charge of the Al Qaeda, the United States sent a message to the rest of the world, and made the U.S. stronger. The Al Qaeda and the Taliban attacked us, there was no other option but to go for their leader who commanded this attack. Osama bin laden called the attack “Blessed” (Durando), on the United states. He was the leader of the Al Qaeda who called the attack. The United States went after him and finally did it, “On May 2, 2011, Al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden is killed by US Special Forces” (CNN). The U.S.A. used terror to achieve this. When we accomplished this, it sent a message to...
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...conclusion. Be sure to answer all of the sub-questions. Essay #3)What is the history behind the 9/11 attacks? Explain how the US intervention in Afghanistan contributed to the formation of the Taliban and Al Qaeda. What three reasons were given for the 9/11 attacks and why is US involvement in Iraq, Israel, and Saudi Arabia a factor? The history behind the 9/11 attacks include issues between countries in the Middle East and the United States. Issues included the importance and interest in Middle East oil, the United States support for Israel in providing them with military equipment, and the presence of the United States army in the Middle East. The attack consisted of two airplanes that were led by terrorists who were associated with the al Qaeda which was led by Osama bin Landen. Their purpose to do this was to slam the World Trade Center which is located in New York. Terrorists that attacked the American interests were usually trained by the U.S but they became part of the Taliban which was founded with Osama bin Ladens’s money. He was determined in spreading conservative forms of Islam, with religious laws. In 2001 al Qaeda was recognized as the most dangerous terror network in the world. They were planning actions against the U.S. In September 11 of 2001 it hit the World Trade Center. This was never felt before in America. The Taliban or Al Qaeda were both violent groups that at the end of everything became enemies of the United States. The people in the groups were...
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...America.” The immediate effects from 9/11 like death and destruction are very disturbing, and that leaves Americans wondering why someone would kill thousands of innocent civilians. The causes of 9/11 have been a topic of debate for many years, and many of the effects are quite evident in our society. The September 11th attacks performed by the Al-Qaeda were caused by certain motives that root from conflicts with the United States and the effects run deeper death and destruction and are displayed through changes in American law and culture. First, a leading cause towards the 9/11 attacks is the United States’ foreign policy which favors Israel over Palestine in the Israel-Palestine Conflict. Israel and Palestine have been been conflicting since the mid 20th century due to issues that involve the control of the Gaza Strip and Jerusalem. Primarily, the issue involves the Israeli Jews and the Palestinian Muslims Osama Bin Laden, the leader of the Al Qaeda was anti-Semitic (a hatred of Jews), took favor of the Palestinians. United States military supporting Israel, which led to deaths of many Palestinians, obviously upset bin Laden and fueled his hate towards Americans even more. Bin Laden stated in his Letter to America: “Why are we fighting and opposing you? The answer is very simple: (1) Because you attacked us and continue to attack us. a) You attacked us in Palestine.” Bin Laden goes on to explain his hate for Israel, “The creation of Israel is a crime which must be...
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...Al-qaeda is one of the largest terrorists groups in the world, allied with many large Islamic terrorist groups. These groups targeted the United States, including other allied countries, and the Twin Towers were one of many, targeted by Al-qaeda, killing thousands in the process. The 9/11 attack was the largest scaled attack on the United States, the attack resulted in nearly 3,000 deaths, and millions worth of damage. Within 24 hours of the 9/11 attack the United States, met with the NATO committee and came up with a decision to go to war with Iraq, and sent thousands of troops within 72 hours after the announcement. Proving that the Iraq/ Afghanistan war was the cause of numerous, deadly attacks on America and NATO allied countries....
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...Describe the history of the organization The meaning of Hezbollah is the “Party of God”, a radical Islamic organization that functions out of Lebanon. According to El Husseini, R. (2010), in October 1983, an attack on barracks housing US and French military personnel in Beirut resulted in the deaths of over 240 US Marines. It was the deadliest individual assault on US interests between World War II and the World Trade Center attacks of 2001. This act was attributed to what was then a relatively new organization, Hezbollah. It left an indelible mark on the psyche of young American policy makers of the 1980s, which explains why many in the US government still see Hezbollah as ‘the A-team of terrorism’ while regarding even al-Qaeda as ‘the B-team. However, this characterization ignores significant differences between the Beirut and the World Trade Center attacks. While Hezbollah killed military personnel in Beirut who were seen as direct participants in a local conflict the Lebanese civil war al- Qaeda attacked the US on its own soil and targeted civilians. Furthermore, the emphasis that the US continues to place on Hezbollah as a terrorist organization is undermined by the lack of ongoing threats; Hezbollah has not carried out an attack on US interests arguably since the early 1990s. Hezbollah’s attacks have been overwhelmingly directed against Israel, and they fall within the historical framework of the Arab–Israeli conflict. Compare and contrast the organization’s primary...
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...September 11, 2001 will be a day that none of us forget for as long as we live. It is a day that each of us will remember exactly what we were doing when we heard the news reports. Hijacked planes crashed into the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center, another one into the Pentagon and a forth plane crashed into a field in Pennsylvania, failing to reach its intended target because of heroic passengers. With nearly 3,000 civilians murdered, the United States began the “War on Terror” that targeted organizations designated as terrorist and those regimes accused of supporting them. The “War on Terror” took the fight to the mountains of Afghanistan and the deserts of Iraq. The Theory of Just War is an ethical look to help determine whether the use of armed forces is justified or unjustified. This Theory is guided by three sets of criteria: the right to go war (jus ad bellum), the rules of engagement of war (jus in bello) and justice after war (jus post bellum). While these wars have been surrounded with controversy and claims of being unjust, the “War on Terror” is a just war that does not exceed the moral boundaries set in the Just War Theory and today's society? The first criterion for a just war is the right to go to war. Is there a just cause? Will war be declared by a competent authority? Has all other options for peace been exhausted? What are the chances for success? Before the dust for the fallen towers settled and while eighty-six other countries mourned the...
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...have begun to realize that they are not sure why. There were many reasons givin to the people about why we must promptly invade Iraq, which turned out to be mostly all false. All of these reasons came together, and eventually matured into a pseudo-war of greed and manipulation. To Paul Wolfowitz, the Iraq war was simply going to be the final stage of the Gulf War, which Bush senior had started in 1990. By 1997, he and a group of other neocons had formed PNAC, a think tank whose primary mission was the Iraq War. The united states secretary of treasurey Paul Oneil went public saying that on Jan 30, 2001, at George W. bush’s first national security council, Bush brings up convictions saying that Saddam Hussein needs to be dealt with. Oneil says that that the overall tone of the meeting was “trying to find a way to invade Iraq”. News reports and Articles began popping up everwhere stating that Saddam Hussein was hording weapons of mass destruction, or simply WMD’s. Rafid Ahmed Alwan al-Janabi, known by the Central Intelligence Agency simply as "Curveball", was an Iraqi citizen claiming that he had worked as a chemical engineer at a plant that manufactured mobile biological weapon laboratories as part of an Iraqi weapons of mass destruction program. He was found to have fabricated his stories of WMDs in Iraq. It turns out that Rafid was a German Intelligence asset, used for the purposes of providing fake intelligence to discredit the US and UK. Despite numerous warnings from the German...
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...currently fighting the war on terror. But who is the enemy to the war? Can terrorism actually be considered an enemy? The answers to these questions are difficult to answer and defend, depending on the circumstances. But the key constant to the question is, there is no internationally agreed definition of terrorism. Common definitions of terrorism refer only to those violent acts which are intended to create fear/terror, are perpetrated for an ideological/political goal, and deliberately target or disregard the safety of civilian targets. The first section of this paper will deal with both views of the changing face of terrorism from pre 9/11, to post 9/11, and to the present day. The next section of this paper will discuss the variables of why terrorism has changed. In conclusion this paper will summarize the study of the changing face in terrorism. Throughout this paper there will be historical facts, evidence, theories, and analysis to support my argument how terrorism has changed over time. The language of terrorism that we, as Americans read it as, on September 11, 2001, two American airplanes flew into the World Trade Center and another into the Pentagon, while yet another suspiciously crashed in a deserted Pennsylvania field. Blasted on our television screens across America, were images of fire, destruction, chaos and death. Framed in colors of red, white and blue, were news headlines such as “The Attack Against America” But the opposing statement always used is “One man’s...
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...standing for the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria; it is also sometimes known as ISIL, because sometimes "Syria" is replaced with the term "the Levant". At a certain level, one gets the impression that ISIS just emerged from nowhere: the organization was not a presence in Iraq when the United States was actually engaged in full-scale military operations there and has only emerged as a strong political power since the American withdrawal from Iraq. Ward has pursued the hypothesis that the origins of ISIS can be traced back to an American prison camp in Iraq called Camp Bucca: "According to a CBS News investigation, at least 12 of the top leaders of ISIS served time in Camp Bucca, including the man who would become the group's leader, Abu Bakr al Baghdadi. CBS News obtained photos of 10 of them in Bucca's yellow prison jumpsuits" (Ward). So, it would seem that a group of prisoners met in Baku and began developing political ideology and strategy; and this was the beginnings of the organization known today as ISIS. The magnitude of the threat presented by ISIS...
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...Valentina paz Alvarez Joe Radzikowski Political Science 004 27 April 2014 Terrorism Affects Us All From the late 13th and the beginnings of the 14th century to the 1700s, the terror and barbarism were actually already used in warfare and conflicts. However, the key ingredients for terrorism were not quite solid yet. Until the rise of the modern nation state subsequently the Treaty of Westphalia in 1648, the type of central authority and a united society that terrorism tries to influence scarcely existed. Communications were controlled, and the facts that might cause terrorism, such as religion, insurrection, political disagreements, typically led to an open warfare during earlier times of civilization. By the time kingdoms turned into nations, they had sufficient reasons to enforce their authority and repress activities such as terrorism. According to the webpage Terrorism Research, “The French Revolution provided the first uses of the words "Terrorist" and "Terrorism". The use of the word "terrorism" began in 1795 in reference to the Reign of Terror initiated by the Revolutionary government.” In other words, the agents of the Committee of Public Safety and the National Convention that administered and enforced the policies of "The Terror" were called 'Terrorists". The words terrorist and terrorism can cause an immediate effect in people’s minds. People often just relate terrorism to power and politics, but what is the real meaning of Terrorism? Every time I hear the word...
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...Luis Garcia Dr. Martin English 1301 24 October2013 Enemy Combatant or Terrorist?: A Designation Makeover This current “War on Terror” is not a familiar feat for the United States of America. For the past 12 years The U.S has had to constantly adapt and develop new operating procedures. The difficulty of this war derives from it not being a conventional war. We are fighting an enemy (Al Qaeda, Taliban, etc.) that has taken guerilla warfare to a whole new level. This enemy has gone from crashing planes into the Twin Towers to placing I.E.D’s (improvised explosive devices) in the streets of Baghdad without any regard to the welfare of its own civilians. There is no doubt this is a complicated war, so complicated that our nation has even struggled with the finer designation of those we are combating. “Enemy combatants” and “Terrorists” are classes we are battling with every day yet still struggling to justly categorize them in legal terms. The vagueness on the definition of “Enemy Combatant” and “Terrorist” has led to voids and abuse of these terms. This in turn has produced an inconsistency on combat operations and legal categorizations. It is often said old men declare wars and young men fight them. This is even more the case in our present conflict with there being over ten significant court cases that have shaped our rules of engagement in fighting on the battlefield (Garrison 449). It can be strongly argued that the fights in the court room are becoming as important as...
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...20 July 2014 The Morality of Warfare: Case Study; Drone Warfare Advancements in warfare technology and weaponry have been the defining factors in battle since the dawn of civilization. The one with the bigger gun usually wins. This is a fact that hasn’t changed much since the beginnings of warfare and holds true today and in today’s world Drones have become the next warfare advantage. Along with any advancement in warfare weaponry comes a very heated and controversial discussion about its actual real-world utilization. Many argue that the use of Drones in war is unmoral and unethical. This paper aims to take a closer look at both sides of this argument. First, I will establish and explain the moral arguments against the use of drone warfare, then the second half of the article will be in response to such claims and give the moral reasons behind the pro-drone argument. First and foremost of the anti-drone discussion is the fact that Drones are seen to be fundamentally in contradiction of international law: Amnesty International stated that that “deliberate killings by drones […] very likely violate the prohibition of arbitrary deprivation of life and may constitute extrajudicial executions.” The UN suggested focused effort to maintain and preserve the security of international laws in its entirety, in response to the use of drones. This incorporates, obviously, international human rights and humanitarian standards that seem to be thrown out the window when dealing with...
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...Terrorism in Kenya From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Kenya has been the scene of various attacks attributed to terrorist elements. In 1980, the Jewish-owned Norfolk hotel was attacked by the PLO. In 1998, the US embassy in Nairobi was bombed, as was the Israeli-owned Paradise hotel four years later. In 2013, the militant group Al-Shabaab killed over 80 people at Nairobi's Westgate Shopping Mall. Contents * 1 Background * 2 Major incidents * 2.1 1975 Nairobi bombing & J M Kariuki murder * 2.2 1980 Norfolk Hotel bombing * 2.3 1998 Embassy bombing * 2.4 2002 Kikambala bombing * 2.5 2012 Al-Shabaab attacks * 2.6 Westgate mall shooting * 3 Other incidents related to terrorism * 4 Anti-Terrorism legislation * 5 Dynamics * 6 See also * 7 References Background In July 1976, during the Operation Entebbe hostage crisis, Kenya briefly served as a refuelling stage for the Israeli C-130 Hercules transport planes on their way back to Israel after the Entebbe raid. Perceived as Western interest and Israeli support, this incident led to anger from Islamic extremists.[citation needed] Major incidents 1975 Nairobi bombing & J M Kariuki murder In early 1975, the first bombs to strike independent Kenya exploded. In February, there were two blasts in central Nairobi, inside the Starlight nightclub and in a travel bureau near the Hilton hotel. The day after the second explosion, JM Kariuki revealed in Parliament...
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...local news station. That’s when we saw scrolling at the bottom of the screen, “Breaking News: THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA HAD BEEN ATTACKED BY TERRORIST.” Some students were sitting in the classroom confused and afraid, some began to cry, some prayed, and some were silent. This was actually my first time fully understanding what terrorism was and what it looked like and I learned a lot of respect for the term “habeas corpus.” In this paper, I will discuss how habeas corpus came into existence, the case involving the detainees at Guantanamo Bay, and the revellance of habeas corpus with the commander-in-chief. Habeas corpus is an issued order of legal action for which unlawful detainees and prisoners can seek relief for unlawful imprisonment. (http://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/habeas_corpus ) Derived from English common law, habeas corpus first appeared in the Magna Carta of 1215 and is the oldest human right in the history of English-speaking civilization; which was signed by King John. He stated, "No man shall be arrested or imprisoned...except by the lawful judgment of his peers or by the law of the land.” (http://truth-out.org) The doctrine of habeas corpus stems from the requirement that a government must either charge a person or let him go free. (http://www.rutherford.org/constitutional ) One question that automatically pops up in my head is, why should terrorist be given the right to go to a U.S. courtroom and have a fair trial? Does it...
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