Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab

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    warnings to resolve an imminent public safety concern” (BENOIT). When winston was being interrogated, he was being tortured to help “cure” him but all o’brien wanted to do was strike fear into winston and change his reasoning, not interrogate, when the government interrogates, no torture is used, just words. On june of 2010, a man named faisal Shahzad was arrested for terrorism, he confessed to the attempted attack on times square, he was mirandized eventually, but he could have chosen to remain silent when read his rights, was the risk worth it? He continued to confess about his attempt as well as future attacks that helped us foil terrorists plots. “Otherwise, we will be left—when a terrorist shuts up, as did the underwear bomber [Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab] for five weeks” (Krauthammer), this delays us from getting valuable information on terrorist plots. Is this risk of giving the terrorist/suspect the right to remain silent? how many lives would be put at risk in the governments hands when wasting valuable time on a terrorist who decides to invoke his rights as a us citizen? Another method of preventing terrorism from entering our country is the REAL ID act, which tried to be passed in 2005, it should be passed because it would revamp security at places such as airports. It would be a form of documentation that would prevent fraud as well as illegal aliens entering the us on false pretenses. This ID would not be a national ID card, it “simply sets minimum standards so…

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    Abu Bakr Al-Baghdadi reinforces his claim as Caliph with being a descendent from the Quraysh tribe. ISIS is establishing legitimacy among Sunni Muslims around the world and moving away from Al Qaeda who influence remote areas of Afghanistan. The proclamation of Sunni Caliphate may be the glue to hold together disparate groups like ex-Baathists, Salafists, Naqshabadis, and ex-Iraqi army of Saddam Hussain. Ways to mitigate the bomb threat of Pan Am flight 103. In the 1980s, terrorists resorted to…

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    Ethical profiling is a necessary security measure to pick up the slack where other security measures have failed. Before 9/11 terrorist attack, when going through an airport metal detector individual had passed through without being detected. For example, on December 25, 2009, Nigerian man Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab boarded Northwest Airlines flight 253 from Amsterdam to Detroit with explosive powder taped to his leg and needed the mixing of chemicals with a syringe, instructed by AlQaeda, and…

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    civilians directly exposed to the World Trade Center attacks have been diagnosed with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). Ten years later, these people are still having symptoms, including difficulty sleeping and concentrating. Even though United States security has become more intense, the United States has experienced multiple attempted terrorist attacks over the past ten years. In December 2001, Richard Reid was flying from Paris to Miami and boarded the plane wearing shoes packed with…

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    Many of those attacks have been successful, but there are some that have not been. For example, the attack Al Qaeda planned for December 25, 2009 was unsuccessful. A Nigerian by the name of Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab had an explosive hidden on himself. The explosive was a mixture of liquid and powder that did not alert the security alarms or personnel in the airport. He planned to detonate it on a plane from Amsterdam to Detroit, but the detonator did not respond; therefore, everyone on the plane…

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