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Images and livestream video clips of American military vehicles getting blown up and dead Americans--both military and civilian--laying dead on the ground in the vicinity have saturated both the international and media. Such images underscore the barbarity and savagery that has become so widespread in the Middle East. Often, such images are disseminated via the news and mass media as well as the internet in order to galvanize new supporters against the United States by discursively framing the American military, coalition forces, and civilians abroad as not indefatigable. The Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIL) is an extremist ...

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Terrorism, terror attacks, terrorist, suspected terrorists- these are the words that can be found in news articles around the world. Although terrorism and terrorist attacks are nothing new and have been an instrument to cause fear and damage for ages, it has become ubiquitous since the 9/11 terror attacks in the US. However in spite of numerous articles, essays and reports having been written about terrorism, there is no one clear definition of the term that can be accepted by everyone. It could be that terrorism operates at so many different levels with various reasons, actors and ...

Al Qaeda

The 9/11 terrorist attacks prompted the United States government to declare “War on terrorism.” Various Islamist extremist terrorism groups claimed responsibility for the attacks, including Al Qaeda. Broadly speaking, Al Qaeda and other radical Islamic terrorist groups oppose US involvement in the Middle East and want to quash Western values and culture. What makes the “War on terror” relatively unique is that the enemy is not constrained by particular geographical boarders but is cut along ideological lines. The structure and internal organization of these terrorist groups pose unique challenges for the United States.
The origins of Al Qaeda date ...

Strategy to Fight Transnational Organized Crime

The strategy to fight transnational organized crime comprises to all national power’s elements that are geared towards protecting citizens and the national security interests of the United States from the convergence of the transnational criminal threats of the 21st century. The strategy is premised around a common unifying principle that is to build, integrate and balance the American power’s tools for combating transnational organized crime and national security related threats as well urging the nation’s foreign partners to observe the same principle. The long term goal of this strategy is for the reduction of transnational organized ...

INTRODUCTION

There are some events in the course of the world’s growth and development that seem likely to occur; people will experience conflict, social unrest, possible warfare and any number of natural disasters that can devastate communities all across the globe. In the modern era one of the most terrifying of occurrences are terrorist attacks. Terrorist threats can exist unnoticed; no one knows when they may occur and what public place, government buildings or function that may be targeted. This makes terrorist attacks a huge source of stress, fear and shock for the people and for the governments involved. ...

Background

The crisis in Yemen, which is known to be a poor country with corrupted rulers, began in the year 2012 with the revolution against Ali Abdullah Saleh, who, as president of the country, had led Yemen for more than twenty years. Saleh resigned office in 2012 as per an earlier agreement between the Government of Yemen and the opposition groups. Abd Rabbuh Mansur Hadi, the former vice president of Saleh wished to unite the fragmented landscape of Yemen by defending the threat to the country from forces trying to revolt from different sides. Yemen had to face the Al ...

Introduction

Domestic terrorist acts in the United States have been committed by a combination of native ideological sects, individuals representing what are considered to be extremist ideologies, and internationally-based terrorist organizations, such as Al-Qaeda. In the aftermath of the September 11, 2011 Al-Qaeda sponsored terrorist attacks in New York City and Washington, D.C., the U.S. Department of Homeland Security was implemented (Furlow, 2005). The primary objective of the Department of Homeland Security can be seen as terrorism prevention. Although prevention of terrorism does not eradicate its ideological causes per se, the act of prevention can aid in the identification and ...

Terrorism can be simply defined as the use of fear by whatever means to achieve a political objective and therefore includes not only the violence and bombings but also other areas such as cyber terrorism. Following this definition then terrorism can be traced throughout human history with numerous theories used to explore their formation and networking. Due the prevalence of Radical Islamic terrorism in the recent years, a closer examination is necessary to determine the growth and development of these networks. Therefore, in this paper, we shall explore the cold war terrorist networking theory with a comparison with the ...

Section I: Introduction and Statement of Purpose

Generally, terrorism is understood as the use of threats and violence that aims to achieve political objectives. According to The Global Terrorism Index, in 2014, the level of the terrorist attacks across the world increased by 80% (Bender, 2015). Despite the fact that regions that mostly suffer from the threats of terrorism include the ones in the Middle East, Africa, and Russia, the fight against terror is an international issue. The United States of America experiences the middle impact of terrorism and ranks 35 among 124 positions in the Global Terrorism Index 2015 Map (Bender, 2015). However, the middle ...

Islam is a religion, which started in the 7th century in the Arabian Peninsula, precisely in Mecca. Its believers trust in the existence of Mohammad. It is believed to have originated from Prophet Mohammad, who was visited by Angel Gabriel for about 23 years. In this period, he received revelations with which the Quran is composed. In general, the Islam religion is revealed to mean ‘the one who submits to Allah' (“What Is Islam? - Political Islam”). Most importantly, they believe in the five pillars of faith, prayer, giving, fasting and pilgrimage. It is also a monotheistic religion, but ...

Many scholars have sought to understand the difference between terrorism and insurgency. Insurgents use a variety of violent and violent methods, they seek support from the people and usually seek to gain and control territory (O'Neill, 10). They also tend to have an ample supply of manpower a large accumulation of resources. Terrorist groups, on the other hand, are usually small, extremely violent, conspiratorial and with little or no public support. Terrorist groups have no regard for civilian casualties and due to their secret nature, they do not hold territories. They do not control or govern any regions due ...

Identification Questions

3.2 Party of the Institutionalized Revolution
The Party of the Institutionalized Revolution was a political party in Mexico that was created by Plutarco Elias Calles in 1929. It lasted for 71 years in power in the country, and was the largest political party in Mexico at the time. The party leans toward socialism but has been grouped together with other socialist-democratic government parties. The PIR is historically significant because of its different take on the idea of revolution and the government. Every revolution in history has been based on the idea of breaking down institutions and tearing apart the ...

Please answer the following questions by first doing a “save as.” Then, give this document a name, save it, then close it. Next, reopen this document as a “shell.” Then insert answers to each question into the “shell.” Save your “shell.” This process can be repeated as many times as times as you need. You have two weeks to complete the answers to this mid-term exam. Once you have completed your exam please return your completed exam to me through the course messages function ONLY on Blackboard. The original questions on this exam must be included in your completed ...

In recent times, Taliban activity has increased in the Eastern and Southern parts of Afghanistan and Western parts of Pakistan. Additionally, the presence of Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) in Afghanistan is on the rise. In light of these recent developments, the US Council of Foreign Relations recommends the following Course of Actions (COAs). These COAs focus mainly on three instruments of power (IOP); Military, Diplomacy and Economy.
It is critical that we do not overreact by increasing the military presence in the region in reaction to the recent increased activity of Taliban and other terrorists groups ...

There have been numerous attacks around the world that have been driven by extreme radicalization. There are those attacks that shook the world and created concern in people’s minds. One of the terrorism acts that still remain in our minds is the 9-1-1 attack on the United States. These attacks were defining and tragic to the Americans. They were affected in diverse and countless ways (Anonymous, 2013).
In China, 133 people were killed on March 2014 and 141 others injured after they were attacked by eight men and women who used knives in the attack. The latest of ...

On September 11, 2001, al Qaeda, an extremist Islamist organization, committed the deadliest terrorist attack in U.S history. No one in the world will ever forget that dark moment when two passenger planes, cutting through the blue sky, crashed into the iconic twin towers of the World Trade Center, leading them to collapse to the ground. In the aftermath of this tragedy, anti-Muslim sentiments and fear have grown significantly within the United States. In fact, while innocent Muslim-Americans are being subjected to discrimination at the hands of a section of American society, the notorious terrorists who actually committed the ...

Terrorism is one of the variants of tactics of political struggle, associated with the use of ideologically motivated violence.

The essence of terrorism is violence with the intent to intimidate. The subject of terrorist violence – individuals or non-governmental organizations. The object of violence – the authorities in the face of the various civil servants or the society in the face of individual citizens (including foreigners or officials of other states). Also, private and public property, infrastructure and lifelines. The purpose of violence is to achieve desirable for terrorists, developments, revolutions, destabilization of society, war with a foreign country, independence of a particular territory, the fall of the prestige of power, political concessions from the authorities, etc.
The definition of ...

Since September 11, there has been a proliferation of programs to fight terrorism, accompanied by a tremendous increase in the resources allocated for the same purpose. However, not much effort has been directed towards determining the effectiveness of the programs. The question of effectiveness must be raised because if the programs are ineffective, the massive resources that have been allocated have been going down the drain. It is only recently that serious attention has been paid to this question (Lum, Kennedy, & Sherley, 2009). The paucity of research in the area is testament to this.
Measuring effectiveness of terrorism strategies ...

Essay #2

Humanities 4501: 9/11 Literature and Film
Introduction
There are different portrayals of Mohamed Atta, one of the terrorists who participated in the 9/11 attacks, in the story “The Last Days of Muhammad Atta,” written by Martin Amis, and the film The Hamburg Cell, directed by Antonia Bird. This paper examines both the story and the film and provides a comprehensive comparison of their portrayals of Mohamed Atta. It is clear that there are significant differences and similarities between how the story and the film portray Atta. In particular, this paper compares how the two narratives portray Atta’s feelings ...

Following the 9/11 attacks, there was a lot of symbolism that was created that was either accurate or inaccurate. However, it played a tremendous response in the way that the US responded to the situation. People tried to looks for terms that summed the complicated events of that day. This led to a broad range of interpretation and emotions that were attached to them. The symbols served to condense and absorb the understandings that were diverse depending on who you asked. The different interpretations of the US 9/11 attacks have shaped government policy prescriptions, and we continue to see ...

DID MY CAR JOIN AL QAEDA? BY WOODY HOCHSWEDER

Persuasive Essay on ‘Did My Car Join Al Qaeda?’ by Woody Hochswender
‘Did My Car Join Al Qaeda?’ by Woody Hochswender concerns the on-going discussion of whether the US usage of sport utility vehicles (SUV) (which is connected with the more than average usage of oil) has anything to do with the support of any terrorist activities.
In my personal opinion, the author of the article is very persuasive because he does not just discuss the issue but he also brings out all the necessary arguments to support his point ...

On September 20, 2001, nine days after the terrorist attack on the World Trade Center, the President of America at the time, George W. Bush gave a speech to address the Congress and the nation. The speech recounted the events past briefly, identified the cause of the event and the perpetrators involved: it also consoled the American people and identified heroes who discharged their duties well. The speech was ended with a promise to the American people to ‘bring justice to the enemies of freedom’.
The speech was well crafted to induce a specific action from the American people: ...

In January 2015, two persons attacked “Charlie Hebdo”, a renowned French satirical weekly newspaper. It turned out later that the attackers were Al-Qaeda jihadist - born and raised in France. Instantaneously, the mass media including TV, Internet (Social Media), and newspaper started broadcasting and publishing videos and images related with the horrible incident. People all around the world showed their support to the victims and their families by honoring them with tributes and also arranged peaceful demonstrations against terrorist activities. The gravity of the event reached the desired threshold for the formation of another international coagulation against the new ...

Terrorism is a global threat that involves acquiring individuals especially the youth to carry out terrorist and violence attacks for various reasons. Recruitment into terrorist groups is a process met by both successes and failure by the recruitment personnel. The positive side involves the fact that the terrorist groups can attract new members, and consequently the terror groups can acquire approbation to help them carry out their activities. The downside of the terror groups involves high chances of the arrest of the terror suspects and offenders and compromise of intelligence chattels. There are various techniques used by terrorist groups ...

Section 1

On September 11, 2001 the United States was attacked by the terrorist group Al-Qaeda. The nineteen terrorists attacked the nation in four coordinated attacks. Four planes that were traveling from airports on the east coast and head for California were hi-jacked by the Al-Qaeda terrorists. The planes were then crashed into various US structures in a murder-suicide mission. The first two planes, which were Boeing 767’s; American Airline Flight 11 and United Airlines Flight 175 (History.com) were sent into the Twin Towers at the World Trade Center in New York City. The first plane hit the north tower ...

Homeland Security

In this paperwork, I am going to support my position as to why I believe we are more secure today than we were on 9/11.
The United States government has come up with numerous measures that are intended to improve security among the public from the time when the al Qaeda attacked the Pentagon and the World Trade Center (Tracy, 2009). A global war on terrorism, started by the United States, continues to give positive results; for example, it has deprived of terrorists’ organizations the aptitude to function without restraint, such as the Al Qaeda organization. The leader of ...

INTRODUCTION

All across the globe, from continent to continent and from the smallest provinces to the largest of cities, they all require some kind of strategies as to how to protect the interests of the country and its people from internal and external threats, whether it is from day to day criminal activity to invasions from conquering or oppressing forces. The United States is no exception. The United States, like all nations, needs a functional, efficient and competent homeland security strategies that will protect the American nation and its people from individual people and groups that threaten America; ideally this ...

The world has changed significantly since the 1990s. While changes in technology may be the most obvious, America’s place in the world has shifted several times from the 1990s to today. From the nearly fifty years between the immediate post World War II years to the fall of the Soviet Union 1991, the political world could put into three categories, the first world, second world, and third world. The category reflected a nation’s alignment in the Cold War between the United States and the Soviet Union. The Cold War was the single most important political situation of its ...

INTRODUCTION

In January 2015, two armed terrorists attacked the office of a popular French weekly magazine named “Charlie Hebdo” in Paris, France. Twelve people, including the chief editor at the time, were shot by assault rifles. Two weeks later, an Islamic terrorist group affiliated with al-Qaeda based in Yemen, took responsibility for the attack which, along with an attack that took place in 2011, were acts of revenge for the public dissemination of a satirical cartoon that targeted Muslims and poked fun at the prophet Muhammad. Such acts of violence aimed at Charlie Hebdo, especially the most one, are viewed by many ...

United States has been actively involved in the global affairs since 1940s. Worldwide, United States has the most stable government that was established before 1945. USA is a superpower country that has a strong military force and it has major economic resources. US have a lot of resources and most countries look up to the United States for help in cases of disasters.
The economic strength of the United States justifies need for its continued involvement in the global affairs. Comparatively, in 2011, USA had a population of about 300 million people against 1.3 billion and 1.3 billion for China and India’s ...

V for Vendetta

Summary

V for Vendetta is a film based in an alternate Britain, an authoritarian state that discriminates against the people. The film is adapted from the book Fandango by Alan Moore, and it is set in the year 2020, a time when the United States is weakened by civil wars and Europe is going through turmoil, underpinned by disease and instability. The totalitarian government uses concentration camps to silence critics of government and minority groups, like homosexuals, Muslims, foreigners and leftist politicians. A television personality, Evey, is held by the state forces for her stand against the ...

Narcissistic personality is a controversial topic to discuss due to the debatable matter of pros and cons attached to its nature. Mostly, society viewed narcissism as a serious cultural and social threat particularly if it concerns a leader of a nation. Experts, on the other hand, pressed in the significance of the personality type as an attribute to a great leadership. In fact, presidents of the United States of America were detected to have been diagnosed with narcissism with varying levels, manifestations, and characteristics of the personality type. At the top of the list of the narcissistic presidents was ...

Abstract

This paper reviews the historical background of Jihadi-Salafism from the time of the crusaders. Jihadi-Salafists are depicted as elements of the broader Salafi movement, social and religious reformers who desire to restore the original beliefs and practices of the first three generations of the Muslim religion. The current Jihadi-Salafists draw their motivation from the perceived attacks on the Muslim community since the beginning of the European colonialism in the nineteenth century and the termination of Ottoman caliphate during the twentieth century. The first part of the discussion includes an evaluation of the United States foreign policy and how it ...

Racism is a type of discrimination whereby people are subjected to different treatment basing on the connotation and social values attached to the color of their skin. According to Naber (2012), racism is not only limited to the color of the skin rather, the position of an individual in the social ladder is of great significance in dictating his status in the society. In the US to be precise, the acts of racism dates back to the time of slavery whereby the Africans were segregated in the south while the whites occupied the northern states. During that time, the ...

Introduction

No doubt this nation has suffered greatly in the recent past and its staying power has been challenged to its limits, chief among them the insurgency of Boko HaramBoko Haram will soon know the strength of our will and commitment to rid this nation of terror we shall spare no effort until we defeat terrorism (Buhari cited in Associated Press, 2015b)).
The above quotation is from the first speech of the newly elected President of Nigeria, Muhammadu Buhari. Buhari knew exactly what he was saying, when put tackling Boko Haram as the first issue of his agenda (Associated Press, ...

Introduction

Australia is one of the many countries in which moral panics have resulted to elevated racism. The concerns about crime and the fear of crime in many Australian cities including Sydney have greatly shaped lifestyles and have influenced the qualities of life. It is evidently that crime in many Australian cities is continually being linked to immigrants and other ethnic minorities. In Australia, in the recent years, the issue of crime committed by ethnic minorities and immigrants has been the subject of many media headlines and has greatly shaped policies, both domestic and international. The 9/11 attacks in the ...

Terrorism is a constant companion of mankind, which is one of the most dangerous and difficult to predict phenomena of our time that obtains more diverse forms and becomes more and more rampant. Terrorist attacks bring massive casualties, have a strong psychological pressure on large numbers of people, involve the destruction of material and spiritual values that cannot be restored sometimes, sow hatred among nations, provoking war, distrust and hatred between social and ethnic groups, which sometimes cannot be overcome in within a generation.
The nature and tactics of modern terrorism and its inhumane essence lies in the fact ...

9/11 attacks are one of the deadliest attacks on the American soil. United States changed its strategies towards its fight against global terrorism after 9/11. This ghastly attack claimed more than 3000 humans including hundreds of law enforcement officials, as well as, fire officers. There are various theories on 9/11, and some of them suggest that there were communication related lacunas in working of law enforcement agencies and fire department. This paper proposes a discussion on 9/11 and further analyses how various agencies faced communication related problems, along with discussing steps taken by US law enforcement in order to ...

Terrorism

Terrorism is a relatively old phenomenon, although it is rampant in the present day. There are various definitions of terrorism, and it cannot be clearly defined as one term. However, terrorism is associated as a generic term for all acts of violence that spread terror amongst the masses. Terrorism can be strategic as well tactical; it can be something considered a religious duty or it can be a crime, it may also be something justifiable in the court of law, or it can be an abdominal cause of oppression.
However, what remains known is that terrorism spreads anarchy and ...

One of the aftermaths of the September 2001 attacks on American soil were the lawsuits that followed (Spinner 2011). One of the litigation issues surrounding the attacks was that on the aviation players and particularly the flight operators. One of the lawsuits filed in a New York court claimed negligence and poor pre-board screening of the passengers by the screening personnel (Tomacik et al., 2013). There were key red flags on the terror-suspect screening that were taken for granted in consideration with the security system that had been put in place at the airport (The 9/11 report, 2004) and ( ...