Counter-terrorism

Terrorism has been a worldwide threat to human existence in the recent years with more cases of terrorism reported. Terrorism refers to the prohibited use of violence against innocent citizens or property to make timid of the government while stating particular social or political objective. Terrorism is branched to two parts, either international based or external. Domestic affects the terrorist activities within particular nation motivated from inside. While international terrorism are…

agree the public will play a vital role in the fight against terrorism, but they must not be afraid to do so. When a terrorist is trying to carry out an attack it is to prove a point and show that they were right. Unlike a regular criminal they want something out of it for example money. Another wonderful tool that investigators may need to track is the State and Local Anti-Terrorism Training Program also provides for a searchable. Terrorism Incident Database that displays terrorist events by…

The concept of terrorism has been evident throughout history. Terrorism, deriving from the term “terror”, (Giddens : 2009 : 1055) refers to using unauthorised violence and intimidation, causing fear within populations, normally in pursuit of a political goal. Terrorism is therefore using methods of violence to terrorise countries or populations for the purpose to destabilise governmental power and to show forms of national - identity. Terrorism is a subject well studied within the fields of law…

overhaled.. The Department of Homeland Security, it was not created just merge with some other organization like U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service. Counter terrorism is a big major job that requires a lot of work. It is extimated that more than 130 organizations along with many private companies are doing work dealing with counter terrorism. Some organizations increased tremendously in size like The Coast Guard, TSA and Border Patrol. .(Chris Walker Sep. 10,…

In Manal Younis’ ‘Call Him a Terrorist’ and Waleed Aly’s ‘ISIL is Weak’, they focus on the same theme, terrorism. Although they share the same foundation, their opinions and techniques in presenting their ideas are completely contrasting. Younis’ poem is opinion based and incredibly emotional whereas Aly’s speech is full of facts with credible sources. Despite the fact that their texts are displayed in different ways, a lot of the stylistic devices used are similar. These devices are used to…

what terrorism really is. The term may range or adopted by other nations but the activity of it and its influences are very substantial, whether it is for the purposes of inducing new changes to society, to threaten the government; it strikes traumatic fear to society as a whole. Designed to produce an overreaction and it succeeds at that almost all the time. As societies tend to close themselves off and governments use tactics that restrict and infringe upon everyone. The activity of terrorism…

The debate over security vs. liberty has been an issue in the United States since the nation was first born from the rubble leftover from the American War of Independence from the British Empire. Founded in 1908, the mission of the FBI is to protect and defend the United States against terrorist and foreign intelligence threats as well as uphold and enforce the criminal laws of the United States. The NSA was founded by order of then President Harry S. Truman in 1952 with the purpose of…

sound conflicting to a task force member like myself, but by placing restrictions in would just serve to aggravate some members of more open-minded of the public who would argue that they have a right to know and discuss the terrorism in detail and would compare the counter-terrorism task force to that of a dictator's censorer. However, putting that aside, there is some benefit this as this would allow us to monitor and indict possible suspects with connections to extremist groups, of course not…

New terrorism Vs. Old terrorism New terrorism is not really new, but there are some new trends in contemporary terrorism. David Tucker makes a judgment on this concept in his article, What’s new about the new terrorism and how dangerous is it? which was published in 2001 in the Terrorism and Political Violence journal. The main purpose of the article is to decide whether terrorism today should be called new and why (Tucker, 2001). Tucker also researches if today’s terrorist groups pose more of a…

Americans have laid cheek and jowl with terrorism for many years, especially since the events of September 11, 2001. While terrorism is usually concerned with bombings, kidnappings or hijackings, some forms of terrorism are much more costly regarding monetary expense. It is estimated that cyber terrorism costs the consumers at least 100 billion dollars a year, although that is only a rough estimate. Company costs for cybercrime can come from the following areas: loss of intellectual property or…