Dan Leininger War is the Only Answer Like most Americans my age‚ I can vividly remember the morning America was attacked on September 11‚ 2001. I can still piece together the disturbing television images‚ the terrified look on my teacher’s face as she told the class what had happened‚ and the memory of seeing my father cry for the first time. I remember watching George Bush’s speech following the attacks with my family‚ but I was too young to truly understand it at the time. When I recently
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Correspondence between Thomas Jefferson and Pierre Samuel du Pont de Nemours. Correspondence between Thomas Jefferson and Pierre Samuel du Pont de Nemours‚ 1798-1817. 2012‚ Boston‚ United States: Dumas Malone. Ross‚ B. (2002‚ December 3). Evidence links al-Queda to Kenya Attacks. Retrieved October 28‚ 2012‚ from ABC News: http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/story?id=125556&page=1
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used by President Bush in an address to a joint session of Congress on 20 September 2001‚ after the 9/11 attacks. Bush claimed the attacks were a declaration of war on the United States‚ and the next step was for the U.S. to respond‚ beginning with al-Qaeda and ending when “every terrorist group of global reach has been found‚ stopped and defeated”. From that statement on the term extended its meaning to the war in Iraq and currently in part to the Syrian War. This is an issue‚ because it leads people
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Unmanned aerial vehicles (UVAs) commonly referred to as drones‚ have been the prime weapon of choice in the U.S. efforts to counteract terrorism. However‚ with supporters of drone strikes‚ there are also critics who offer alternatives such as raids‚ who do not take into account the risk and cost of doing so. Drones are able to carry out the same effects as other military platforms under law‚ but it is unique in that it is independent from human control‚ adept to hovering midair for hours while offering
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8th grader. Operation Anaconda started on my birthday March 1st‚ 2002. Between March 1 and March 16‚ 2002 1‚700 airlifted U.S. troops and 1‚000 pro-government Afghan militia battled between 300 to 1‚000 al-Qaeda and Taliban fighters to obtain control of the valley. The Taliban and al-Qaeda forces fired mortars and heavy machine guns from entrenched
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Danielle Dominic In 2001‚ a war broke out in Afghanistan. Since 1996‚ the Taliban had controlled most of the country. During this period‚ the Taliban allowed a group called al-Qaeda‚ a terrorist group‚ to have training camps in Afghanistan. In the 9/11 attacks in USA‚ nearly 3‚000 people were killed. The leader of al-Qaeda was a man called Osama Bin Laden. The USA believed he was the man behind these attacks. The Taliban refused to hand over Osama Bin Laden so the USA used their American Forces
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the people and the state machinery to such a level where they are left with no options other than to compromise or face the deadly consequences Who are behind these attacks? Some people think and says that blackwater is behind this..some say Al-Qaeda is behind this..osama bin laden…tehreek e Taliban etcc nobody knows actually nd we don’t knw what they want…. What motivates suicide bombers? The jihadist‚ usually sitting on carpet with a AK-47 and a Koran‚ will praise god and family and
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Attacks Alan Jacobs HLSS 155 B001 Win 13 Professor Dr. Wesley Phillips 15 February 2013 America’s Top Three Potential Terrorist Attacks Since the successful attacks by planned by Osama Bin Laden‚ and carried out by Al Qaeda terrorists‚ the United States of America has implemented new strategies to thwart efforts by terrorist to achieve another successful attack on US soil. Along with the new Global War on Terrorism‚ came new laws‚ different executive orders‚ and the
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Drone oriented airstrikes in the middle east have generated an opportunity for extremist groups such as Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula to recruit citizens into a life of terrorism. Mothana states that the drone strikes are causing more Yemenis to hate America and join radical terrorist groups. Most members of terrorist groups are driven by ideology. However
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After the terrorist attacks of September 11th‚ 2001 our country underwent a change that has drastically affected the fundamental values that our founding fathers instilled in this country. Since that tragic day in September the aftermath of the attacks has started to implicate our Civil Liberties that in this country we hold so dear. Just 45 days after the September 11 attacks‚ with virtually no debate‚ Congress passed the USA Patriot Act on October 5th‚ 2001. This act expanded the surveillance powers
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