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HISTORICAL GENERAL ASSEMBLY UNITED KINGDOM ARSHIA ROY The deadliest terror attack on American soil came on a day of unprecedented shock and managed to turn international order upside down. The 9/11 attack carried out by 19 operators of the Al-Qaeda unleashed carnage – killing thousands and leading to colossal damage of property. Today, we face a determined enemy who sees this as a war of attrition –as an epochal struggle along the lines of their…

October 7, 2001, the United States and British militaries began to attack Afghanistan. The attacks were in response to the Taliban’s refusal in Afghanistan to hand over the terrorists responsible for the 9/11 attacks in the United States (Witte). These military actions were conducted by a legitimate government, were for the sake of avenging their citizens, and was to destroy the terrorist group that was spreading terror which makes this justifiable under the “just war theory.” According to…

The Controversy When this attack was first reported, Hillary Clinton and national security adviser Susan Rice, told the world that it was an “ angry mob responding to a video made in the U.S. that mocked Islam and the Prophet Mohammed, but officials later determined that it was a terrorist attack”. Greg Hicks was the U.S. deputy chief of mission in Libya at the time of the attack. Hicks relayed to the White House, State Department and others that this was a terrorist attack from when it first…

identified, including 19 of the hijackers. How did they enter the US and how did they get their VISAS? Who the hell is Osama Bin Laden? The most notorious and important Osama Bin Laden video (Nov.2001), in which he allegedly confesses to the planning the onslaught of 9/11, appears to be fake. The State Department’s confirmation of it is fraudulent. Could it be possible that Osama bin Laden visited Dubai and met with a CIA agent in July 2001? Which he was receiving dialysis in a Pakistani…

When considering its significant impact on the world the history of terrorism is relatively brief. That being said, as it propagates across the globe its brevity is shrinking and it continues to find its way into news headlines and into the history books. It’s a safe notion to associate the beginning of radical terrorism to the 1980s. The 1980s was a time period where terrorist adopted many of their tactics, techniques and procedures (TTPs) that are still used today. 1983 was a particularly…

Bin Laden communicated to his people and the world through several means. His most powerful means were attacks that he commanded. He was a man of action! Another method that he was really counting on to get his message to the world is the media, television, the Internet and radio. According to Seib "Al-Qaeda and its jihadist brethren use more than 4,000 web sites to encourage the faithful and threaten their enemies"(2008, 74). Even after his death Bin Laden"still has a core leadership…

Are you afraid of flying in planes? More than 20 million people are afraid of going on planes and unfortunately I’m one of them. My mom, dad, and sister Harman boarded the plane at MCI. We were off to Las Vegas. I know that Las Vegas is a weird place to go with your family but we went anyways. Las vegas wasn’t the only place we were going, but it was where the adventure began. We had arrived at Las Vegas. As soon as we stepped outside we were sweating. It was 114 degrees! It felt like the sun…

The man in the red bandana It was 9:12 when the south tower was hit. I am John Reynolds a survivor from 9-11. Once the plane hit, smoke was everywhere around me. A piece of glass hit my leg, it started to bleed badly. I tried to tie something on it to slow the bleeding. I could barely see my hands and leg in front of me. Everything was going black, and at first a thought that it was the smoke in the air. It just kept getting darker and darker, then i realized that I was losing my conscious and…

Have you ever been worried on a plane ride? What if that worry was a skyjacking? What would you do it you figured out that the plane you're on is being skyjacked? This is what people probably thought when Dan Cooper Skyjacked a plane. To understand the mystery of Dan Cooper, one must know the story of his skyjacking, what he left behind, and the theories about where he is now. What was Dan Cooper like? Dan Cooper was a well dressed man that looked like a businessman. He looked to be 170-180…

Caliphate was once a word many Americans had never heard before. Caliphate has now become a household word since the troubling and quick ascension of the Islamic State of Iraq and Al-Sham (ISIS). The word itself represents the rule of a Caliph. This Caliph can rule a land mass, a government, or a mass of people. In the case of Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, it is lands and cities in Northern Iraq. Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi is the current Caliph of ISIS. He is the so-called only “legitimate successor to the…