< The Terror Watch List Database Troubles Continue > Prepared by Question 1: Saumya Medushani Pepera Question 2+3: Nguyen Ngoc Tien Question 4: Novina Magai Question 5: Yang Xiaolin Table of Contents Executive Summary 3 Introduction 4 Q1. Why was the consolidated terror watch list created? What are the benefits of the list? 5 Q2. Describe weaknesses of the watch list. What management‚ organisations and technology factors are responsible for
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Referring to Herbert J. Gans’ use of social functionalist theory in his essay titled “Uses of the Underclass in America”‚ four of the thirteen manifest and latent functions Gans applied to the problem of poverty could also be applied to the issue of Islamophobia in America. The first (manifest) function of Islamophobia emphasizes that the existence of Islamophobia supplies popular culture villains. Because many within American society oftentimes associate real-world terrorism with Muslims (at a
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ISIS Crisis The militant group named ISIS (Islamic State in Iraq and Syria) has had an increase in their strive for power in the Middle East. As chaos and civil unrest in Syria and Iraq continues‚ various rebel groups are able to appear through the metaphorical smoke. Isis is not necessarily a rebel group‚ but they lead with an iron fist and harsh Sharia Law that largely affects women and the rest of the Islamic State. Isis is perhaps the most organised and well-funded terrorist group the world
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technology to make it safer. With all the new technology improvements since 9-11 the United States is safer‚ but not as safe as it could be. Citizens living in this county know that in order to make more improvement in our homeland security‚ counterterrorism‚ or any other aspect it will require new technology. But new technology doesn’t come cheap; there is a price to pay that isn’t of monetary value‚ less privacy for citizens. Is the invasion
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Retrieved April 16‚ 2008‚ from http://www.outpost-of-freedom.com/rcaffid.htm Brennan‚ Charlie.(1995‚ April 30). McVeigh Crossed Paths with Colo. Militia Member. Rocky Mountain News. U.S. Dept of Justice. Terrorism in the United States1998: Counterterrorism Threat Assessment and Warning Unit‚ National Security Division. Retrieved April 19‚2008‚ from http://www.fbi.gov/publications/terror/terror98.pdf. Verhovek‚ Sam. (1994‚ December 6). A Fight in Texas for the Homeland of a Sect. New York Times
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that on American soil. If someone had told you that America would go almost a decade without another terrorist attack‚ would you have believed them? Probably not; which begs the question ‚ why did that attack never come? Marc Thiessen‚ resident counterterrorism fellow at the American Enterprise Institute explains‚ that‚ “[T]there are only two possibilities. Either the terrorists lost interest in attacking us again‚ or we found out what their plans were and stopped them from carrying them out.”1 He asserts
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IntroductionOrganized crime has become a problem among U.S. citizens since the 1900 ’s. The Mafia was the first to show its strengths of power and manipulation among citizens and business of New York. Since the rise of the Mafia‚ other criminal organizations have surfaced using their power to corrupt personal within business for the gain of finance and political strength. Everyday citizens living among society have been tormented by smaller criminal organizations working pipelines for drugs and weapons
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want to hear to get his clothes back. There’s no value in it” (qtd in McCoy). In the article of David Rose who is a contributing editor for Vanity Fair‚ he discussed the impact of seeing Abu Zubaydah tortured influenced F.B.I’s assistant for counterterrorism‚ Pasquale D’Amuro‚ to persuade director Robert Mueller to discontinue the bureau’s role in future C.I.A. interrogations in which use harsh and extreme techniques to extract information (47). After speaking with officials from both sides of Atlantic
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Running head: INTELLIGENCE-LED POLICING INTELLIGENCE-LED POLICING AND CIVIL LIBERTIES Capella University June 18‚ 2010 CHAPTER 1 INTRODUCTION The Early Years of Intelligence-Led Policing Intelligence units within law enforcement organizations of the early 1920s‚ adopted the dossier or [database system] that was developed and perfected by the military (Carter‚ 2005). Intelligence files are simply dossiers; they are files based on the collection and/or gathering of raw data received─in
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Managing Change in Egypt Advancing a New U.S. Policy that Balances Regional Security with Support for Egyptian Political and Economic Reforms By Brian Katulis June 2012 w w w.americanprogress.org THE ASSOCIATED PRESS/PETE MullER Managing Change in Egypt Advancing a New U.S. Policy that Balances Regional Security with Support for Egyptian Political and Economic Reforms By Brian Katulis June 2012 Contents 1 Introduction and summary 5 U.S. national security interests in Egypt 9
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