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Atkins, Stephen E. The 9/11 Encyclopedia. Santa Barbara, Calif: ABC-CLIO, 2011. eBook Collection (EBSCOhost). Web. 18 Oct. 2014.
Atkins, a writer and editor for a great deal of academic works, discusses nearly everything a person would ever need to know about the tragic events of September 11th 2001. This work shows how terrorist organizations such as Al Qaeda and ISIS can grow into something deadly.
Blakemore, Brian, and Imran Awan. Extremism, Counter-Terrorism and Policing. Farnham, Surrey: Ashgate Pub. Limited, 2013. eBook Collection (EBSCOhost). Web. 28 Oct. 2014.
Brian Blakemore is a researcher on Islamic extremism. Blakemore talks about many aspects of terrorism prevention, ranging from the United States’ methods, to the
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Islamic Fundamentalism: An Introduction. Santa Barbara, California: Praeger, 2013. eBook Collection (EBSCOhost). Web. 27 Oct. 2014.
Lawrence Davidson has done years of study and research on Islam and their religion. In this book Davidson explains the history and progression of Islamic Fundamentalism. ISIS is a group originating from Islamic Fundamentalism so this source helps my readers to understand ISIS in more detail.
“ISIS Fast Facts.” CNN.com. Cable News Network, 9 Oct, 2014. Web. 5 Nov. 2014.
This news article discusses important information for a person to better understand ISIS, and how they are developing. This is a free-web source, but CNN is a well-known news corporation, and ISIS is a developing issue so academic journals cannot provide all the information needed.
Koppel, Nikolas J. Combating Islamic Militancy and Terrorism in Pakistan's Border Region. New York: Nova Science Publishers, 2010. eBook Collection (EBSCOhost). Web. 5 Nov. 2014.
Nikolas Koppel has researched and studied Islamic groups and terrorism, he is well informed on this topic. Koppel discusses the effects of sending military over to the Middle East. This source allows my writing to better illustrate some of the potential effects of being involved with trying to put ISIS to an
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In this book James and Brenda Lutz talk about how different terrorist organizations formed, as well as the aftermath. This source gives the reader more general information on the topic of terrorist groups like ISIS.
Malloy, Allie. “Use U.S. troops against ISIS? Romney, Durbin weigh in against Obama.” CNN.com. Cable News Network. 16 Nov, 2014. Web. 17 Nov 2014
Allie Malloy is a writer for CNN news and has experience in researching developing news stories. In this article Malloy writes about former presidential candidate Romney’s and Senator Durbin’s opposing viewpoint to what Obama has said and done in recent events. This is another free-web source, but again it is from a well-known news corporation, and provides my paper with up to date information on a developing topic.
Mihailović, Dušan, and S. Butiri. Evolving Asymmetric Threats In The Balkans. Amsterdam: IOS Press, 2011. eBook Collection (EBSCOhost). Web. 9 Oct. 2014.
Dušan Mihailović has written in many academic books on the topic of foreign terrorism, and has done years of research and study on the topic. In this book Mihailović describes how terrorist organizations evolve and grow. He goes into great detail on how organizations can wreak havoc, and turn from relatively harmless to truly
As of this moment, our government has currently been able to identify several different forms of domestic extremist groups that have coincided within our local, state and federal pentatrienes, such as White Supremacists or Neo-Nazi’s, political extremist, and array of other large coordinated prison gangs. Nevertheless, with the increasing risk of more home-grown radical Islamic terrorist turning up on United States soil, great levels of distress have recently been expressed by Americans because of the looming risk of what could result from this prisoner radicalization. The recent uprising of the radical Islamic extremist group known as the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS), has resulted in a significant rise in the number of annual domestic terrorism- related arrests. The ideology implemented through ISIS’s methods of teaching, has
Document Based Assignment 2 On September 11, 2001 terrorists attacked our country causing one of the most devastating events in United States history. Islamic extremists seized control of four airplanes, crashing two of them into the Twin Towers, one into the Pentagon, and the last in Pennsylvania. Overall they killed 3,000 people and another 6,000 were terribly injured.9/11 is a day the U.S. will never forget, paying respect every year to all those who sadly died. There are many clues leading up to this incident showing Osama Bin Laden’s hatred towards the U.S. and the Americans reaction to him.
A great terror struck our nation September 11, 2001, two aircraft’s hit the world trade centers, killing 2000 people and injuring over twice as many. A third aircraft flew into the Pentagon while a fourth crashed in a rural area in Pennsylvania. This day will forever be engrained into history as one of the worst terror attacks faced in this nation. Nearly three years later, in an attempt to figure out what happened on that tragic day, scholars came together to discuss the possible parallels between foreign and domestic terrorist. The author, Michael Kimmel, outlines the possible cause of the 2001 attacks and offers us a link between both foreign and domestic terrorism.
The Wahhabi and Salafist movements have become increasingly influential throughout the Middle East and the world. They have been an integral part of the dynamic religious conflict in the Middle East and have helped propagate the current terrorist movements throughout the world. To understand what makes these movements so popular, we must revisit the roots of Wahhabism and Salafism and their similarities and differences. Wahhabism was founded by Mohammed Ibn Abd al-Wahhab in the eighteenth century. Wahhabism “stresses the absolute sovereignty of God.”
By this standard, Al Qaeda’s attack on the United States on September 11,2011 was a success in that they created a chaos big enough to last in the minds of everyone for eternity. In In order to kill America’s pride, wealth and power, four hijacked planes, with a total of 246 passengers, were turned into bombs and flown into American symbols. Three planes crashed into the World Trade towers in New York City and the Pentagon in Arlington, Virginia. The fourth plane was supposedly on track to attack the White House, but, crashed in a Pennsylvania field. A New York rescue worker exclaimed that, “We 're going to look on this as the day everything changed… It just feels like nothing’s ever going to be the same” as a result of the thousands of passengers on the airplanes, policemen, firefighters, emergency workers and regular civilians who died that day without doing anything wrong (Stewart 10).
On September 11, 2001, the world stood still in sheer disbelief, as the United States fell victim to an appalling terrorist attack. An Islamic extremist group, known as Al-Qaeda, hijacked four commercial airplanes in the morning of this life-changing day. The group targeted monumental buildings in both New York and Washington, D.C. and executed multiple, suicide attacks, which left behind a massive sea of destruction. Images clearly reveal flames and plumes of black smoke, billowed from the floors and windows of the World Trade Center. Lives have certainly changed in some shape or form and for some, more than others.
This book “Inside Al Qaeda- Global network of Terror” depicts the rise of “Al Qaeda”, the extreme terrorist organization, as well as its influence on the modern world by the foremost leader- Osama bin Laden. Rohan Gunaratna, the author of the book, used comprehensive and knowledgeable approach to study this notorious multinational organization. His works almost involved in armed conflict. In this book, he specified how Osama bin Laden influenced by Azzam, his abecedarian, to join the jihad and why he formed this organization in the boundary between the Pakistan and Afghanistan, as well as what his ultimate purpose is.
9/11 was an immediate tactical success for Al-Qaeda. The 9/11 attacks were an immense tactical success for Al-Qaeda because of the well-coordinated strikes on deliberate icons of the United States’s economic power and militant force. As a result, Al-Qaeda gained a massive global audience as they watched the attacks on live broadcast. Brain Jerkins mentions how “terrorists want a lot of people watching, not a lot of people dead” (91). 9/11 had brought Al-Qaeda the international notoriety that yearned through the live broadcasts.
Osama Bin Laden (OBL), an arch-terrorist and founder of the Al-Qaeda, was assassinated on May, 2011 in a covert US operation (Kitfield, 2013). By the time of his death, Osama had been linked to several terrorist activities including the September, 11 attacks that killed nearly 3000 people (Michaels, 2012). It was hoped that his death would dismantle or cripple the Al-Qaeda, a terrorist network formed and led by OBL. Three years down the line it is still not clear whether OBL’s death crippled, dismantled or strengthened the terror network. This essay intends to discuss the discourse and assessments that have evolved three years after his death to explain its impact on Al-Qaeda.
The tragedy on September 11, 2001, has been labeled as the most disastrous event on American soil in the nation's history. However, few know of the long history of events that caused the terrorist group, Al-Qaeda, to attack the United States. These events all funneled into that cloudless September day in which the old America was destroyed, and set the stage for a new age in the United States. 9/11 was caused by the leader of Al Qaeda, Osama Bin Laden. His 1998 fatwa against the U.S, The Siege of Beirut, and the symbolism of the World Trade Center as well as the Pentagon drove the terrorists to commit these attacks.
With the November 13th attacks in Paris that killed 130 people and wounded 368, Americans are now asking themselves two things; what is the risk of an attack happening on U.S. soil and what may be done to stop such an immediate and imposing threat? The origins of such a group ready to carry out such attacks in modern day can be directly traced to Al Qaeda, whose story began in 1979 with the Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan. Abdullah Azzam, Al Qaeda’s founder, became a disciple of the Muslim brotherhood shortly after his family fled the West Bank following the Israeli victory in the Six Day War. The Sunni Islamic scholar and theologian began studying the works of Hassan al-Banna and Sayyid Qutb in regions such as Syria and Egypt, then re-teaching
Introduction The terrorist attack on September 11, 2001, also known as the 9/11 attack, was a day that changed the course of history. It was a coordinated attack on the United States of America by the Islamic extremist group Al-Qaeda, which resulted in the deaths of nearly 3,000 people and caused significant damage to the World Trade Center (WTC) and the Pentagon. This essay provides an in-depth analysis of the 9/11 attack, including the events leading up to it, the attack itself, and its aftermath. Background To fully understand the 9/11 attack, it is essential to understand the political and social climate that existed in the United States and the world at the time. In the late 1990s and early 2000s, tensions were high between the United States and extremist groups such as Al-Qaeda.
September 11th, 2001, left a devastating impact on not only the United States, but worldwide. Many families had been separated and many souls were lost in what was one of the most terroristic events that has ever happened on American ground. As two planes crashed into the Twin Towers located in New York, thousands of people would be left stuck in the crumbling building, some able to escape, while others were not as lucky. In an essay by Peter Bergen called “Could it Happen Again? In the National Interest”, Bergen highlights inside details of the fatal attack and what caused Bin Laden and Al-Qaeda to reign its terror on the Twin Towers.
After a terrorist attack of any kind there are always consequences that must be faced. Sometimes the point of the terrorist attacks is because the organization wished to send a message or to influence policy in their favor. However, after the 9/11 attacks administrators realized that the United States was not prepared for a tragedy of this kind and had little to no measures to prevent one, this lead them to create new programs and policies. Terrorist organization’s goal often comes down to one of the following: regime change, territorial change, policy change, social control and status quo maintenance. The main purpose of a terror attack may well be to influence public policy.
Terrorist groups are a threat to everyone and anyone everywhere. One current group, as an example, is the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham or better known as ISIS. It is a growing population in the Middle East. Many people assume that ISIS members are all Muslims; however, ISIS is just a group of ruthless human beings that want to take over the world. Everyone wonders what and how ISIS began.