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    Terrorism Paper 11/16/09 There are several terrorist groups throughout the world today. All the terrorist groups have one common goal and that is to rid the world of Americans and western influence from the Muslim world. There is one organization that has ties to most of all the terrorist groups in the world and is the most infamous group in the world today and that is the group called Al-Qaeda The word Al-Qaeda means “the base” in Muslim. As an international terrorist organization led by Osama

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    Was 9/11 An Inside Job? September 11‚ 2001 holds a special place in almost every American’s heart‚ as well as those of families in other countries who lost a loved one that day. Not only is Sept. 11th the bloodiest terrorist attack in the history of the nation‚ several groups of people within our own country and abroad believe that knowledge of this attack was held prior to the actual event. What has been reported and believed was that two airplanes crashed into the Twin Towers in New York City

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    Terrorism Following 9/11 Attacks There has never been a time that terrorism has been so high; not only in the United States‚ but all around the world. The most concentrated areas of terrorist attacks are in and around the Middle East. Places like Israel‚ Yemen‚ Iraq‚ Afghanistan‚ and Pakistan‚ to name a few‚ see terroristic attacks with almost daily consistency. In addition to these countries‚ there are increasing tensions in and around the Middle East as a result of the Arab Spring. Tunisia

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    Describe and explain change(s) in a society you have studied this year. On the eleventh of September‚ 2001‚ four planes set off bound for separate destinations across the United States of America. Little did the passengers know as they boarded these planes that they would never live to see another day‚ as Muslim hijackers were onboard the flights with the intention of launching a terrorist attack on the country. Two of the four planes were deliberately crashed into the Twin Towers in Lower Manhattan

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    How did the Al Qaeda (AQ) attacks on the US develop over time‚ and could the 9/11/01 attacks have been avoided? Were US intelligence and counterterrorist (CT) assets well organized to avoid the 9/11/01 attacks? To what degree was the Clinton administration’s CT strategy a product of faulty presidential thinking -- or faulty intelligence? How did the 9/11 Commission recommend the US adapt its strategy to react to the 9/11/01 attacks? How did the 9/11 Commission recommend the US restructure its

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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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    Everyone knows about the attacks that occurred on September 11th‚ 2001 that scarred our nation. Many people lost family members‚ friends‚ and co-workers during these horrific attacks. The terrorist attacks took place in at the World Trade Center in New York City‚ at the Pentagon building in Washington‚ D.C.‚ and in a plane crash near Shanksville‚ Pennsylvania. The nation suffered a great loss on September 11th‚ 2001. After these life-taking terrorist attacks memorials were built for the families

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    paper will address the September 11 attacks and the problems with airport security personnel and the outdated technology that was being used in most airports The September 11 terrorist attacks could have been avoidable if airport security was up to par with new security devices and better trained personnel. The government should have passed a new airport security law to update security devices and to make sure employees were properly trained long before September 11. Airport security would still be

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    How 9/11 Changed America

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    the entire nation on September 11‚ 2001. The exact moment those words were said is marked the second that America changed forever. Prior to 9/11 Americans thought they were untouchable. That there was no way the things they watched on Fox New and CNN every night could ever happen in their backyard. But when the North Tower collapsed at 10:28 am after the South Tower‚ Pentagon‚ and Flight 93 crashed America realized that they weren’t as safe as we thought. Americans went to bed on September 10th watching

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    Running head: THE 9/11 TERRORIST TRIALS The 9/11 Terrorist Trials Jose Quesada CRJ-305 September 5‚ 2013 For over a decade the central debate about enemy combatants has been what kind of trials and due process rights are they entitled to. These combatants are not quite prisoners of war‚ but they are not run-of-the mill criminals either. They are being detain at Guantanamo Bay with no formal charges or access to the free world. The reasoning for this is‚ on September 14

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