U.S. State Department list of Foreign Terrorist Organizations

thousands of years and the continuing crime eventually led to the passing of several statutes. The Bank Secrecy Act, the Money Laundering Control Act, and the Patriot Act are just a few of the major U.S. laws further discussed in this paper. The Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCen) is the U.S. agency devoted…

direct human aggression”. The Department of Homeland Security defines agricultural bioterrorism as an intentional attack on agriculture or the food system using a disease causing…

Al-Qa’ida (‘the Base’) is an international terrorist organization that was founded by Osama bin Laden in August of 1988. Bin Laden, a son of a wealthy and prominent Saudi family, trained and fought with the mujahedeen in Afghanistan during the 1989 Soviet Invasion of the country. The organization continues to pose a threat to regions of North Africa and the Middle East, as well as various Western countries. This organization seeks to unite Muslims as a means of overthrowing any regimes that the…

and armed conflict, domestic and foreign, since the early 19th century. Corruption within their own government has left Colombia with no authority. Colombia entered the side of the Allies during World War II while “social and political divisions within the country intensified” (Gale).…

There are people that hear about a terrorist attack and automatically assume that it was the Islamic Nation. Islamic persecution has been happening for a long time, even before the tragic events that happened on September 11, 2001. The Islams have recently been blamed for many of the current terrorist attacks. Isis is an Islamic organization that has committed many terroristic activities, which leads for many people to believe that all Muslims are terrorists. The Islamic Nation is being…

the United States’ since the 9/11 attacks. That’s a gross exaggeration” (Kiely). A study from the Center for Immigration Studies showed that 44 of the 72 people were not convicted on terrorism charges. Most of the 28 that were convicted on terrorism crimes were convicted of helping to finance terrorism outside of the U.S.– only three of these 28 were plotting acts of terrorism on U.S. soil, and two were sting operations. Lastly, the study showed that 4 of the 72 were arrested in foreign…

| | | |[pic]using international organizations to take responsibility away from domestic judicial authorities. | |…

Iranian national interest evolved throughout the history of the Persian nation. Early in the 1950s, Shah Mohammed Pahlavi welcomed U.S. and Britain involvement in Iranian ventures, to include Iranian interest in nuclear energy, to advance Iran’s national interest. However, at this point Shah Pahlavi was a weak leader and as a result of allowing foreign nations to interfere in Iran he sparked tensions within the political leadership of Iran. Iranian Prime Minister Mohammed Mossadegh was one of…

to a unified Iraq. The primary focus of selecting key geographic advantages and disadvantages is to have the ability to apply one or all of the lessons learned to effect change in Iraq and the region. The desired end state is Middle East regional stability achieved by focusing the U.S. diplomatic, information, military, economic, financial, intelligence and law enforcement (DIMEFIL) elements of national power to bear on the region with the…

One day we had two of the busiest centers in the United State. two buildings that provided jobs for over 50,000 workers, from financial investments experts, insurance brokers, and bankers, to sale associates, concierge, and janitors. Those two buildings provided countless services to the community, and to the world since day one, even before it was open, “More than 10,000 workers were involved in building the World Trade Center complex” (“World Trade Center”, Par.1). The well-known landmark, the…