network – generation 1.0 which includes the years before the shocking attack on New York City and Washington D.C. on September 11‚ 20011; generation 2.0 which ranges from the September 11th attacks to the death of al-Qaeda’s charismatic leader‚ Osama bin Laden in 2011; and finally‚ al-Qaeda generation 3.0‚ in which different forms of al-Qaeda-based terrorist syndicates2‚ or lone wolves3‚ are active around the globe. In addition to its organizational transition‚ their modus operandi and ideology have
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anything. Knock one down and many will stand up in his place. For 10 years‚ the U.S. has searched for Osama bin Laden‚ the man responsible for the attacks on the World Trade Center. He was finally killed in 2011. Killing the world’s most dangerous man was said to be a "justified killing". The aphorism stated before is definitely validated based on the fact that we don’t know if killing bin Laden has created some unknown enemies. Enemies that can turn up as terrorists. The blowback of an objective
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Rosa Parks is widely known as the African-American woman who refused to get off her seat on a bus. She did not want to forfeit her seat in order for a white individual to replace her. She was arrested and taken into custody against her will‚ just because she felt the need to stay on the seat she felt she rightfully deserved. On December 1st‚ 1955‚ according to history‚ Rosa Parks was tired and exhausted from a long day of work. In fact‚ under different circumstances‚ she would have probably given
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the Sept. 11 attacks is a Kuwaiti-born lieutenant of Osama bin Laden who had previously plotted to attack the World Trade Center and to bomb several airliners simultaneously‚ a top U.S. counterterrorism official says. Khalid Shaikh Mohammed‚ one of the FBI’s most-wanted terrorists‚ is at large in Afghanistan or nearby‚ the law enforcement official told The Associated Press on Tuesday. U.S. investigators believe Mohammed‚ working under bin Laden’s leadership‚ planned many aspects of the Sept
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in-group/out group manipulations or preferring ’people like us’ over ’people who aren’t like us’. Throughout the movie the Saudis are represented as an out-group of Bush. Moore shows Bush to be close to the Bin Laden family by repeated association. Then he shows the Bin Laden family to be close to Osama Bin Laden again by association. Whether these associations are really this close is a point for discussion but the thing to notice is that the only connection is association. Because a policeman tends to be
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Which Terror Is Greater: Secular or Religious? Alexandra C. Zuñiga CJ290/ Terrorism Mr. Scott Thompson Kaplan College 12/20/2012 Abstract Secular terror is anything that does not have to do with religion; however‚ religious tactics can be used to get ahead in secular terrorist organizations. Religious terror is based on the protecting‚ converging‚ and maintaining beliefs of a religion upheld by a religious terrorist group. Although different tactics are carried out by each different group
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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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apologists 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
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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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People commit crime because of selfish reasons. Do you agree? How do people define crime? Some might define crime as an act of offence towards the morality of humans. Others might regard crime as an act that harms the universal human rights. In my perspectives‚ I think that crime is an offence made towards the law. Therefore‚ why do people still commit crimes? Some crimes were committed because of hatred‚ hardships and even because of the people they loved. All in all‚ I do agree that people
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