Nothing will ever be the same was the constant refrain after the twin towers attacks. But in daily life it doesn’t seem like much has changed. In 2001‚ I was in first grade‚ and nothing in my daily routine changed. Some of my classmates who were Arab or Indian had a tough time coming back to school since the terrorists were supposedly Islamic extremists from parts of the Middle East. This made my friends and I look at them differently. I was never really friends with any of them‚ but I felt sympathy
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Patriot Act Essay The House of Representatives passed the Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism Act of 2001 on October 24‚ 2001. This is also known as the USA Patriot Act. The Patriot Act was designed to deter and punish terrorist acts in the United States and around the world and to enhance law enforcement investigatory tools (USA Patriot Act‚ 2001). Honestly I believe that the Patriot Act is beneficial to America
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Threat. NYPD Intelligence Division. NYPD. 2007. (3) Randy Borum. Radicalization into Violent Extremism I: A Review of Social Science Theories. Journal of Strategic Security. Vol. 4. Number 4. Winter 2011. (4) Federal Bureau of Investigation Counterterrorism Division. (U//FOUO) The Radicalization Process: From Conversion to Jihad. Federal Bureau of Investigation Intelligence Assessment. 10 May 2006. (5) Robin L. Thompson. Radicalization and the Use of Social Media. Journal of Strategic Security
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Abstract America’s strategy to combat terrorism‚ resulting from Al-Qaeda’s 2001 attacks‚ falls short of its intent to defeat transnational terrorism. While the tenets of the current counterterrorism strategy were written broadly to enable global employment‚ this template approach proved ineffective. While focusing its efforts on dismantling terrorist organizations in Afghanistan and Iraq‚ America neglected parts in Southeast Asia that provided sanctuary to Islamic terrorists. Such sanctuaries facilitated
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explained’‚ African Security Review‚ 19:2‚ (2010) 54-67 Profile: Boko Haram‚ Al-Jazeera English Online‚ July 9‚ 2010 Social Science‚ 2010 632: 55World Drug and Arms Report‚ 2010‚ United Nations Office of Drugs and Crime (UNODC‚ 2010) Subcommittee on Counterterrorism and Intelligence Committee on Homeland Security (2011).
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The C.I.A. and its Influence on America America’s Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) was officially established through the National Security Act of 1947‚ but the concept of intelligence gathering had existed since the days of the Revolutionary War. The CIA is the successor to the Office of Strategic Services (OSS)‚ which was created in 1942 to help organize espionage activities during World War II. The mission of the CIA is to collect bits of strategic information in order to protect the United
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References: Irregular Warfare (IW) Joint Operating Concept (JOC). (2007). http://marshallfoundation.org/documents/IrregularWarfare.pdf Somalia Civil War. http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/world/war /somalia.htm>. The National Counterterrorism Center. (2014). http://www.nctc.gov/site /groups/al_shabaab.html
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History of the FBI The Federal Bureau of Investigation was founded in 1908 when the Attorney General appointed an anonymous force of 34 Special Agents to be investigators for the Department of Justice. Before that‚ the DOJ had to borrow Agents from the U.S. Secret Service. In 1909‚ the Special Agent Force was renamed the Bureau of Investigation‚ and after countless name changes‚ it became The Federal Bureau of Investigation in 1935. When the FBI was established‚ there weren’t an abundance of
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Organized CrimeMy personal perception of organized crime before this class is that it is a term used to describe the crimes that are committed by major criminal organizations like the mafia or cartels. When I hear the term organized crime‚ I automatically think of the mob putting out hits on their enemies or the Mexican cartel smuggling drugs across the borders. My personal perception of organized crime is largely based off of the movies that I have seen. Movies like Goodfellas and The Godfather
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