Jason Friedkin Period 8 War has changed greatly from World War 2 to the Modern War in Afghanistan. One reason is because of the weapons today are much better and more modified. Also‚ soldiers today have more technology and they are trained better for what they do. One big difference is the reason why the two wars were fought. World War 2 and the War in Afghanistan were fought in very different ways. The weapons have changed greatly from both wars. First today‚ weapons are a lot faster and more
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The United States has been subjected to terrorism for many years‚ much of it directed toward American targets out of the country. This contains the bombing of the Marine barracks in Beirut on 1983‚ a detonation that brought down an American airliner over Lockerbie‚ Scotland in 1988‚ the bombing of American embassies in 1998‚ and the attack of U.S. naval vessel Cole in 2000. Terrorist occurrences were rare prior to the September 11th attacks. Radicals west of America performed numerous performances
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Alex Villone CRJ 150 November 15‚ 2012 Professor Fitzgerald Paper # 2 The Infamous Mobster Al Capone Al Capone‚ also known as Scarface‚ was born in Brooklyn‚ New York to immigrant parents born in 1899. He dropped out of school in sixth grade to become affiliated to a notorious street gang. Johnny Torrio was the street gang leader along with Lucky Luicano‚ who would later break off from the gang. In 1919 Capone joined Torrio in Chicago and became a lieutenant in the Colosimo mob. Capone
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September 11th 2001. The plan to destroy symbols of American power began when 19 Al Qaeda terrorists hijack 4 planes that were flying above the US. American Airlines Flight 11 was crashed into the north tower of the World Trade Centre‚ United Airlines Flight 175 was crashed into the south tower‚ American Airlines Flight 77 crashed into the US military headquarters in Washington D.C‚ the fourth plane crashed into a field near Pittsburgh‚ Pennsylvania. In total‚ 2‚996 people died‚ 200 fell or jumped
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acquaintances that were killed in the incident. It immediately changed the history of the United States. Since the first plane crash on the World Trade Center (WTC)‚ it was already known that America was under attack. This was believed to be the doing of Al-Qaeda‚ an Islamist terrorist whose leader is Osama Bin Laden. In New York‚ the crisis played the most serious part in this city‚ where there are thousands‚ even millions of civilians in the city‚ and is the busiest city in the US‚ or even
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Obama‚ the head of one of the most powerful countries in the world‚ decided to introduce a select team of individuals into Pakistan‚ in an illegal manner‚ in order to kill Osama bin Laden‚ the head of an international Islamic terrorist group known as al-Qaeda. In the movie these two sides of justice are represented by two “knights.” On one side‚ Batman‚ who is constantly referred to as the dark knight and on the other Harvey Dent‚ who is referred to as the white knight. The words “white” and “dark” have
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These attacks are often referred to as the 9/11 attacks‚ they were a series of attacks of terror against the United States. Two planes flew into the World Trade Center’s twin towers‚ some of the most tallest and best buildings in New York City. Another plane hit the pentagon‚ and the third crashed in Pennsylvania‚ as on this one‚ there were no survivors. American Airlines Boeing 767 with over 20‚000 gallons of jet fuel crashed into the north tower of our World Trade Center. This left a huge burning
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FBI and CIA(Emerson‚2000). The Middle Eastern and Islamic terrorist groups that have members in the United States include the Algerian Armed Islamic Group‚ Hamas‚ Hezbollah‚ the Palestinian group‚ the Egyptian group‚ Al Gamat Al Islamiya‚ the PKK‚ the Islamic party‚ and Al- Qaeda‚ which belongs to Osama bin Laden
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On the day of September 11‚ 2001 the World Trade center was attacked by the Al Qaeda terror network. They hijacked our own commercial air-liners and flew straight into the towers. It was not till May 1st of 2011 that we finally brought the head of the attack to justice. It was TEN whole years later for us to locate him and bring him down. He slaughtered 2‚792 people just in New York City. Americans from all over the country gave over 2.2 billion dollars to help charities set up for 9/11. The country
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Yemen. A lot of the information seems to be a little skewed as well‚ it seems that the information being given back to Washington are either assumptions or indications that the targets could be linked to Al Qaeda. Drone attacks presume to have “successfully” taken out members of Al Qaeda but again the information given appears as a cover up for the deaths of multiple civilians. These deaths caused at the actions of the CIA government only gives the
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