the moment‚ information on who has been killed and how many were of people were intended targets is shrouded in secrecy. Moreover‚ according to statistics from the TBIJ children have been killed in these drone strikes yet the US claims that they are Al-Shabaab terrorists. One chilling question is‚ who decides who a terrorist is and is not? What happens when civilians are killed based on faulty meta-data? Article 4 of the Geneva Convention stipulates that an individual must satisfy certain criteria
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political history of Andalusia. • Ibn Rushd was influential in the fields of jurisprudence‚ medicine and mathematics. • He is mostly remembered for his insights into philosophy and theology. • Under the Caliphs Abu Jacob Yusuf and his son‚ Jacob Al Mansur‚ he was entrusted with several important civil offices in Morocco‚ Seville and Cordoba. However‚ he fell into disfavor and was banished with other representatives of learning. • Shortly before his death‚ the decree was cancelled‚ but by this
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a compound in Abbottabad‚ Pakistan. He was 54 years old at the time of his death. The news of Osama’s death spread like a wild fire in the entire world. It was a huge victory for the U.S. in the war against terrorism and to eradicate Al Qaeda and a huge defeat to Al Qaeda. The news created a mix reaction in the world. In the U.S.‚ crowds of young and old poured out on streets late at night chanting “USA‚ USA” while half way across the world in Pakistan‚ where Osama was killed‚ crowds were enraged
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widely accepted account that the September 11 attacks were committed solely by al-Qaeda. In a 2008 global poll of 16‚063 people in 17 countries‚ majorities in only nine countries believe al Qaeda was behind the attacks. 46% of those surveyed believed al-Qaeda was responsible for the attacks‚ 15% believed the U.S. government was responsible‚ 7% believed Israel was and another 7% believed some other perpetrator‚ other than al Qaeda‚ was responsible. The most popular of all conspiracy theories is that
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“Jihadist globalism” is Al-Qaeda’s push back on America. Al-Qaeda’s attack on 9/11 was a response to what is called Americanization. A lot of Americans seemed unaware of America’s cultural and political influence around the world. This influence is not always wanted or welcome‚ predominantly in the Islamic sections of the world. Osama bin Laden was one of the leaders of Al-Qaeda and in effect the “jihadist globalism” movement. He wrote many works that gave instructions on how to resist what Steger
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This sub culture was dominated by the Italian Mafia and gangsters. During the Prohibition era these gangsters became increasingly popular and influenced America as well as the fashion of the 1920s fashion. The most notorious gangster of this time was Al Capone‚ infamously known for his style as well as the Valentines Day massacre. Much like the other fashion trends of the 1920s such as the flapper girls‚ the gangsters fashion showed the rise of organised crime in America during the Jazz and Prohibition
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Economic developments matched this new surge of intellectualism‚ bringing al-Andalus and the dhimmi into the global sphere. While other dhimmi took advantage of cultural and social opportunities‚ still countless others became active participants and leaders in the economy. As second class citizens‚ the dhimmis were the most viable candidates for an urban middle class and soon had access to multiple professional and administrative careers. They collaborated closely with Muslims to urbanize the empire
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last season. The main characters of the show is women’s shoe salesman Al Bundy‚ his wife Peg‚ dorky son Bud‚ and slutty daughter Kelly. Al loves to watch TV‚ bowl with his buddies‚ drink and go to the "nudy bar". Marcie and Jefferson‚ are the Bundy’s neighbors and also take an active part in the show. Most shows consist of Al going somewhere or doing something and everyone else making fun of him when he fails miserably. Al is someone you can hardly call a father to his kids‚ he’s doesn’t take
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The Ethical Implications of the Current Government Drone Strike Polices 8/1/12 Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) first made their appearance in 1919 when Elmer Sperry‚ who also invented the gyroscope and autopilot‚ attacked a captured German ship with the first UAV loaded down to with explosives(("U.s. army unmanned‚" 2010). At the time this was a revolutionary weapon‚ but if we fast forward 80 years from the time of that experiment‚ UAVs became a common and prolific part of the modern battlefield
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The threat of Global Warming is real and as severe as Al Gore makes it to be in his film “An Inconvenient Truth”. Humans are contributing to climate change. There is proof that we see in our everyday lives such as major increases in natural disasters‚ Antarctica‚ and the raise in carbon dioxide levels. When people say Global Warming is happening what actually is happening is our sun’s rays are heating up our Earth. Some of the rays bounce off Earth and go back to space. On the way back to space some
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