U.S. State Department list of Foreign Terrorist Organizations

fighting organizations such as Interpol; and NATO. Organization Profile and History September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks provoked the federal officials to examine how such an unexpected attack was allowed to occur. The post…

This list contains items such as candidates must not have been convicted of a felony or been convicted of a domestic violence misdemeanor or more serious offense. Likewise, they can’t knowingly or willfully engage in acts or activities designed to overthrow the U.S. government by force. Candidates mustn 't fail to pay court ordered child support. In addition, they cannot fail to meet the FBI’s drug use guidelines. Defaulting on a federally funded student loan, or failure to file federal, state,…

INTRODUCTION Every Terrorist group has a history such as where they came from and why did they appear in a specific country. Boko Haram first begins in 2002 in Maidu-Guri, the capital of Borno State in the country of Nigeria located in a west part of Africa. The Islamic terror group over the past years has being operating around the Nigeria and Niger boarder; also between Nigerian and Cameroon boarder. Nigerian has a population of about 170 million people and it is a multi-ethnic country with…

just as much as a threat as foreign terrorism but is often over looked by the U.S. government. He explains that “9/11 has set a threshold for what terrorism is in the minds of many Americans.” Throughout the article, he pulls direct quotes and opinions…

“Terrorism is a psychological warfare. Terrorists try to manipulate us and change our behavior by creating fear, uncertainty, and division in society”-Patrick J. Kennedy. Patrick J Kennedy was an American politician that was born on July 14, 1967. In this quote Kennedy is describing the word terrorism in a way that if looked up in a dictionary, will have another meaning and state the intentions of the terrorist. ISIS: The State of Terror by Jessica Stern and J.M. Berger is a book about a…

On Tuesday morning of September 11 of 2001, 19 hijackers by the Islamic terrorist group al-Qaida attacked the United States of America by crashing 2 American airlines planes into the north and south tower of the world trade center in New York city. In addition, there was a 3rd plane that crashed into the pentagon and another one that was supposed to crash in Washington D.C but end up crashing into a field in Pennsylvania after its passengers fought with the hijackers. The four planes with more…

for her “enemies list.” This conspiracy lead to three different investigations. When asked to testify, the White House Office Personnel Security Director refused to. Since he would not testify against the Clinton family he was forced to resign. When Hillary was asked about it and said that she was guiltless, The New York Times referred to her as a “congenital…

Intelligence in Homeland Security Introduction After the attack of 9/11 on the United States the Nation learned there were many areas that needed improvement in regards to the security of the homeland. The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) had to take into account the lessons learned from 9/11, especially the shortfalls that were seen in intelligence gathering and make some major changes. The DHS is not the only agency that is responsible for gathering information for the Nation’s safety,…

The Department of Defense (DoD) plays a significant role in homeland security despite not being a part of the Department of Homeland Security. The DoD’s role is to protect the critical infrastructure of the United States and its domestic population (U.S. Department of Defense, 2003). An example of this would be the DoD’s role in incepting a terrorist-hijacked aircraft over American soil (Verga, 2007). Further the National Guard can be employed by the state of which the agency falls…

Terrorism does not exist in a vacuum—the terrorists’ aim is to instill terror or fear in a wider audience. For example, terrorists who were opposed to Israel’s statehood kidnapped and murdered members of the Israeli Olympic team at the Munich Olympics in 1972. While the immediate target of the terrorists’ actions were the members of the Israeli national team, the secondary target was the millions of people watching the Olympics…