in the history of mankind. But not everyone celebrated Bin Laden’s death. Not everyone saw him as a terrorist‚ in fact‚ some thought of him as a hero. Although Bin Laden may be regarded as a hero‚ but by killing innocent civilians‚ hijacking the noble religion and culture of Islam‚ and pushing the Al-Qaeda’s mentally challenged individuals as suicide bombers he has to be considered as a true terrorist. The debate about Bin Laden is a big and a very controversial one. Some people‚ like
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“My Son -A Terrorist? (He was such a gentle boy) In the article “My Son-A Terrorist? (He was such a gentle boy)‚ Unni Wikan discusses the life of Muhammad Atta‚ a young innocent boy‚ who later became one of the pilots during the September 11‚ 2001 attack on the United States. In search for reasons behind such drastic transformation‚ Unni Wikan an antropologist who has lived in Egypt and may have crossed path with Muhammad Atta compares his life to that of another boy Sayyid whom she had known on
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Professor Alaanoud Abusalim October 20‚ 2010 Arabs: Terrorism Naomi Nye‚ a female writer‚ is an American citizen‚ half American‚ half Palestinian. The writer wrote an essay “To Any Would-Be Terrorists” describing in a sad and frustrated way that the terrorists should find another way to live and make peace with the world by stopping the terrorism acts since the world needs not to suffer more pain. The writer’s purpose was to show the Americans that not all Arab-Americans
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There are several Foreign Terrorist Organizations that make the United States their enemy. For the most part‚ it is the United States culture and ideology that terrorists abhor. Of these foreign terrorist organizations‚ there is the Lashkar-e Tayyiba‚ a Pakistani organization. Lashkar-e Tayyiba is known as the Army of the Pure or Army of the Righteous. It was founded around 1990 as a military arm of the Pakistani Islamist Organization‚ until they split off. Their main mission was to drive away
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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 bin Laden
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American Public University America’s Top Three Potential Terrorist 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
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Hezbollah are they a Terrorist Group or A Racial Social Group Contrary to popular belief‚ Terrorism has been a globalized reality long before the events of September 11. Indeed‚ only after the occurrence of the September 11 attacks did people‚ and to some extent countries‚ around the world consider terrorism as a threat to international peace and security. The destruction of the World Trade Center in New York became a lasting impression to Heads of State/Government around the world: an impression
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believes torture should be permitted: “the ticking time bomb and the slower-fuse high level- terrorist”. (313) The ticking time bomb is a situation where hundreds‚ if not thousands‚ of innocent lives are at stake‚ with little to no time‚ all dependent on a crucial piece of information that can help mitigate the situation. The slower-fuse high level terrorist is when a person who is second-in-command of a terrorist cell is captured and has vital information that can bring down an entire enemy’s organization
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Different people identify terrorism in diverse ways. In the book “What Terrorists Want”‚ Louise Richardson gives a brief explanation of terrorism in two parts. The first part she explains what terrorism really is‚ where they come from‚ what causes terrorism‚ the three R’s (Revenge‚ Renown‚ Reaction)‚ and why terrorists kill themselves. In the second part‚ Richardson talks about what changed and what did not change on September 11‚ 1997. She also talks about why the war on terror can never be won
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WMM CA10 Terrorists and their acts should not be given media publicity. Terrorism is the act of targeting civilians with acts of violence intended to spread fear and coerce national populations and governments into fulfilling the terrorists’ political‚ religious or ideological goals.1 Often when these acts are carried out the mass media would be the first to report about these events. Often terrorism depends on media coverage to help spread its intended fear and spread awareness about its message
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