Osama bin Laden

Foreword: The reason for my interest in foreign weapon trade policy comes from me watching the movie Ironman with Robert Downey Jr. When Tony Stark’s convoy is ambushed by terrorists using small arms manufactured by his company against him. Which cost the lives of American soldiers and severely injured Stark. This research paper will address American weapon companies selling to foreign countries. What is a weapon? According to the Merriam-Webster dictionary, a weapon is a thing designed or…

Since beginning, the U.S. Military has always tried finding ways to lower the number of soldiers being killed each year. When Drones had been made, it seems like they have achieved their goal of more soldiers coming home safe. Instead of a solider going out into the war or deadly scene, they send a Drone instead. Sadly, the Drones do have negative effects. Though the Drone has regulations it has to follow already, the Drone's regulations should be stricter. To start off, because of…

Underground In the spring of 1995, Japan faced a catastrophe that would forever embed itself in the history of the nation. This event was the 1995 Tokyo Sarin gas attack. During this event Sarin gas was released in the Tokyo subway system resulting in twelve dead and thousands injured. This attack was conducted by five members of the Aum Shinrikyo cult (Aum). In his book Underground, Haruki Murakami interviewed the victims and ex-members of the Aum Shinrikyo cult in order to discover what…

There is a lot of Ideological extremism in America still to this day. In the United States, most terrorist environments easily fall into the left-right ideological field. You do not find as strong an ideological demarcation in other countries. Only groups with a strong international character defy ready ideological organization. Black power is often sectioned with the new left. Black power is promoting interest of one group of people. The American right is strong on family values. They are…

When US troops moved out of Iraq, there was a power vacuum. There was a dissolved Iraqi army. ISIS is the descendent of Al Qaeda. It’s a “jihadist” extremist militant group trying to create an Islamic state. It is comprised of Sunni Arabs from Iraq and Syria. ISIS, which stands for Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, has a goal to create an Islamic empire and fight the United States. When the group changed its focus to Syria it rebranded itself ISIS. Graeme Wood talks about the group’s goal: to…

Flashback to September 11, 2001, which is considered by many to be the worst day in American history. However, this was also a turning point in American history and the start of a new age. This was not the first terrorist attack on U.S. soil. On February 26, 1993, the World Trade Center would see it’s first but not last attack which was not successful. Then on April 19, 1995, a federal build was blown up. This would be known as the Oklahoma City Bombing. With the most recent terrorist attack…

September 11, 2001 is a day that will be etched in the minds of Americans forever. On that day four airplanes were hijacked. Two planes were flown into the world trade center. One was flown into the Pentagon. The last one was headed to an unknown location and ended up crashing in a field in Pennsylvania. On flight eleven which was one of the planes flown into the world trade center. The second plane flown into the world trade center had sixty-six people aboard. Flight seventy-seven which was…

September 11, 2011 was a very rough time to say the least for many citizens of the US. On this day the US was put to test by a terrorist group named Al Qaeda. Al Qaeda hijacked four different planes and flew two of them into the twin trade centers in New York. Another plane was flown into the pentagon in Washington DC, and the last plane crashed in the middle of nowhere in Pennsylvania because the passengers on the plane fought back against the terrorists who were hijacking it. By watching a…

That day the planes crashed on United soil was a horrible history changing day that we refer to as September 11th. I was in home room at my high school in Minnesota when my teacher said, "You will never forget where you were this morning while this took place for the rest of your life, you don't understand the impact this just had on our country." as we watch the news on the television. My home room teacher was right, I didn't know the degree of the event happening right in front of me, and to…

From this rhetoric, Sayyid Qutb (1906-1966) emerged and is considered to be the father of modern Sunni extremism (Armstrong, 2002). Originally, Qutb was considered somewhat moderate, but after being imprisoned for being in the Muslim Brotherhood, his ideas became radicalized. His belief that Muslims are “…bound to fight to the death” (Armstrong, 2002) set the foundation for the idea of Martyrdom operations as a noble tactic. Additionally, his belief that Muslims should “…separate themselves from…