In 2001‚ in addition to declaring war on the Taliban (in a way)‚ the United States commanded the turning over of Osama Bin Laden‚ the man who personally claimed responsibility of the 9/11 attacks. The Taliban did not comply however‚ and thus the United States invaded Afghanistan. Although Bin Laden was officially declared dead on the second of May‚ 2011 the United States’ forces remain in Afghanistan until today. The decade long war in Afghanistan‚ also referred to as “Operation Enduring Freedom
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Preventing 9/11: Could it Have Been Done? September 11th‚ 2001: the American people will remember this day as the day the unthinkable happened: someone‚ or rather a group of people‚ infiltrated the seemingly impregnable American defenses and turned our own airplanes on us. Crashing several planes into different important federal buildings‚ these terrorists spread terror throughout the country. Nobody thought that the most powerful country in the world could be attacked so easily‚ and
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we not forgetting that maybe a terrorist in this country is a freedom fighter in the next? The first and foremost cause of these terrorist attacks lie in the fact that these suicide attackers have no future. They almost always have lost friends and family and are in search of some form of justice. One can say; ‘how can this be a two sided story‚ are they not doing just the thing that was done to them?’. This one might be right but than again‚ who of us western people‚ living in peace really knows what
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plane that intended to crash into the United States Capitol building. The plane that was intended to crash there ended up crashing in a field. The attacks were said to be put together by 19 Al-qaeda‚ which was an islamic organization that Osama bin Laden ran. This is an organization that has been involved in several attacks in the many different countries around the world. Osama mentioned that the U.S. can avoid another attack like the 9/11 one‚ if the U.S. stops threatening the protection of their
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War Against Terror The September 11 2001 (9/11)‚ terrorist attacks on the United States changed the perspective of the world towards terrorism especially the Al Qaeda. The world‚ in particular the major powers came to realize that the greatest threat they had in the 21st centaury was global terrorism and President Bush once said‚ “Al Qaeda is to terror what the Mafia is to crime” (George Bush‚ 2001‚p.2). Just few days after September 11 2001‚ President Bush delivered a speech in which he
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Eliot Aronson says‚ “We Americans seem to thrive on competition; we reward winners and are disdainful of losers.” When the United States was hunting for Saddam Hussein and Osama Bin Laden‚ they were determined and were not going to give up; they were the “alpha male” in pursuit of win. When they “killed” Osama Bin Laden‚ the subsequent reaction of the public personally sickened me. The gargantuan number of people in the streets celebrating the death of a human being seemed inhumane to me and somewhat
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your entire family. You were the only one to survive because you hid under the bed as he came into your room. Imagine the pain that you would endure for the rest of your life while the person who slaughtered your family still goes on living the rest of their life with food and water. This is not justice because the same men and women that kill our families and friends are still allowed to live. I believe that the death penalty is the right answer because it gives justice to the families‚ it acts as
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Factfile C ONTENT Preface 1. 2 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19. 20. 21. 22. 23. 24. 25. 26. 27. 28. 29. 30. 31. 32. 33. 34. 35. 36. The See-saw of Pak-US Relations Hillary Clinton’s Visit The Pak-US Relations After Bin Laden: The Future of the US-Pakistan Relationship The Way Forward Pakistan Did not Know about Osama: US Pakistan to Decide Whether We Can Take Joint Action: Munter US‚ Pakistan at Crossroads‚ Says US House Speaker Time to Press ‘Reset’ Button on Pak-US
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The Taliban is a Sunni Islamic fundamentalist group that ruled Afghanistan from 1996 to 2001‚ they are also considered anti-innovative‚ meaning they are against modernization of a state. This leads to many terrorist attacks on modernized countries. The goal of the Taliban is to remove foreign forces from Afghanistan and to enforce Sharia law and Islamic government. Sharia law is based on Islam’s holy book‚ the Koran‚ and concerns with the faith of an individual and how to properly practice Islam
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justify acts of terrorism by arguing they were done in the name of revenge against western oppression. "Apologists for terrorism‚ including Osama Bin Laden‚ argue that terrorist acts are an understandable attempt on the part of subjugated non-Western peoples to lash out against their longtime Western oppressors"(1). Nobody really fancies Osama Bin Laden‚ so this was a shrewd use of pathos to stir up negative emotions in the mind of the reader‚ in an attempt to convince the reader to understand his
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