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    9/11 Terrorist Attacks

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    leaders of most Middle Eastern countries have condemned the attacks, but Iraq is an exception, it launched a formal announcement, "the American cowboys are suffering the consequences sin their evil against humanity ". Meanwhile, a handful of Palestinians celebrated the event. Only about a month after the attacks, the US military led international military coalition in Afghanistan to hunt advances the armed forces of al-Qaeda almost topple the Taliban government for harboring terrorists excuse.…

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    Have you ever wondered why did Al-Qaeda launched a terrorist attack on the United States? If you really think about there really isn’t a reason. Why kill thousands of people just to become known as a person who killed thousands of people? That sounds kind of gruesome. Doesn’t it sound kind of stupid to kill yourself in order to kill others. Why can’t everyone in the world get along? I learned a ton of new things about 9/11 when I watched the video. One of them is that Ramzi Yousef Was planning…

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    Terrorism. Finally, leaders’ belief in airpower technology advantage creates temptation to use it as a quick remedy for problems. Hence, airpower by itself solves problems temporarily, which finally generates more costs and takes more time like in the Iraq Wars. The cheapest, quickest, and most human solution is not making a war. Therefore, airpower use as an element of deterrence is a promise to prewar times. The history of Vietnam War…

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    The 9/11 Attacks

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    The 9/11 attacks on U.S soil marked the beginning of the war that was declared on terrorism. In turn it also shifted the balance of power among the three branches of government. Congress gave the executive branch unlimited power to act with extreme prejudice and the Supreme Court went along with the decisions the executive branch made to combat terrorism. This paper will explain how the three branches of our federal government- executive, legislative, and judicial- have responded to terrorism.…

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    of U.S soldiers have been sent overseas, thousands were killed, and many returned home with physical and mental injuries According to U.S substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, 2 million Americans were deployed to Afghanistan or Iraq and more than 6,000 Americans were killed and 44,000 wounded. 18% of people that returned had Post Traumatic Stress Disorder or depression, and 20% of the people had Traumatic Brain Injury. Many people who witnessed 9/11 and are still having…

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    Under the direction of Osama Bin Laden, the Islamic terrorist group Al-Qaeda hijacked airplanes and used them to carry out suicide terrorist attacks. They crashed the planes into different targets within the United States. Planes were flown into the twin towers of the World Trade Center and the Pentagon and killed thousands when the buildings collapsed. It is believed that al-Qaeda fulfilled these attacks as retribution for America’s military presence in the Middle East, and…

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    ISIS Crisis

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    that lately re-titled itself “the Islamic State” has existed under several names and forms since the 1990s. Its legend is an epic of how modern terrorism progressed, from a religious and political ideal into an obliterating-cult. The Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) is a properly-armed group that is a threat to the global security. ISIS, whose merciless members delight in murdering innocent people, must be destroyed before its fanatical followers carry out further genocides. The inquiry…

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    No Easy Day Summary

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    “No Easy Day” by Mark Owen and Kevin Maurer is the story of Mark Owen’s career as a member of the Navy’s elite unit known as SEAL Team Six. Owen tells of the challenges he faced as a candidate for SEAL Team Six. He met the basic requirements for this candidacy. He had been a Navy SEAL for several years and had been deployed on two missions. SEAL Team Six had been established in the early 1980s to handle difficult missions including hostage rescue and infiltrating into enemy territory. It had…

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    Corruption In The CIA

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    traced back to G.W.Bush. The president was never officially briefed on CIA interrogation tactics. The amoral and unspoken policy of “don’t ask, don’t tell” was used between the president and military/CIA on the treatment of prisoners. Han al-Shaykh al-Libi ran an al Qaeda training camp until his capture in November 2001. He was taken to Egypt and interrogated there by the Egyptian agency on behalf of the USA. This allowed the CIA and military to go around the laws against prisoner torture by…

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    Drone Strikes

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    suspected terrorists in Somalia, Yemen, Afghanistan, Pakistan, and other countries. The use of unmanned aerial vehicles has created great controversy in recent years; this is in part because of the September 2011 authorized, targeted killing of Anwar al-Awlaki. Awlaki…

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