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World Trade Center Past Few Years
1,704 wordsTrent Kenya 5 / 15 / 00 Over the past few years a new threat has been encountered by the United States. This threat does not come from away, but from within. It is know as domestic terrorism. This has been seen over the past decade in the form of violence and terrorism across the United States. This has become a threat to American security and the American people in general. To battle against this issue, Congress has upheld the Anti-Terrorism Act in 1996. One of the best examples on examining th...
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Saddam Hussein Intense Fear
1,511 wordsTerrorism in the Websters New American Dictionary is defined as the systematic use of intense fear as a means of coercion. In this day and age, the term terrorism is more than just the use of intense fear as a means of coercion but includes the use of terrorism as a means of revenge and pure sport and also as a means of suppression. While the dictionaries definitions says that it is the use coercion to promote certain ideologies, some of the most cleverly hidden terrorism today is the terrorism ...
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2,226 wordsH 2 > 1. What is terrorism? Terrorism is hard to define. In its broadest sense terrorism can be thought of as the use or threatened use of force against civilians designed to bring about political or social change. Moreover, while we think of terrorism as being both a political and irrational act (especially suicide terrorism), terrorism can also be thought of as a rational act conducted specifically because of the impact -- fear, confusion, submission -- it will have. Given the U. S. go...
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Osama Bin Laden War Against Terrorism
2,160 words... claimed by terrorists as well as "just" states. Finally, we should remember that the Crusades or Inquisition, which were executed largely through terroristic means, were authorized directly by the Church. Arriving at Islam, the concept of Jihad, or "struggle, " which in recent decades has been at the theological core of justifying Muslim acts of terrorism, traditionally meant the spiritual and moral struggle of an individual Muslim against his or her evil inclinations. The lesser jihad, that...
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Intelligence Problems Facing Homeland Security
2,678 wordsIntelligence Problems Facing Homeland Security. One of the main problems of the present is the global terrorism. Terrorism unfortunately became an integral part of the political and economic processes in the world thus making a threat for the civil and the national security worldwide. There are a lot of discussions on defining the terrorism. Sometimes the acts of terror are called the revolutionary struggle, sometimes the terrorists are called the rebels, and sometimes they define themselves as ...
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Palestine Liberation Organization Irish Republican Army
1,381 wordsTerrorism, A Hateful Act Since the attacks on September 11, 2001, America has been on the edge. What is it that caused America to live like this? One word can sum it up, Terrorism! The past couple of years this word has been described in many ways. Terrorism is when evil acts of violence are used to intimidate a group of people. Our President has used terms such as evil, cowardly, and hateful acts to describe terrorism. Terrorism, is the threat or use of violence, often against the civilian popu...
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3,108 wordsIts 8 a. m. , morning rush hour in New York. People and cars move slowly and somewhat irritably toward the city. Suddenly, the power goes down and traffic lights cease working. Everything comes to a complete stop. Meanwhile, half way around the country, the water system malfunctions in Detroit. Then, in Dallas, air traffic becomes dangerously chaotic as guidance systems go offline. It seems like a series of unconnected events. But information security experts say it could also be the sign of a t...
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3,843 wordsThe United States of America has entered a period in which serious choices need to be made in safeguarding citizens against those who wish to do harm to the nation. Both domestic and international terrorists seek to use biological weapons, chemical weapons, nuclear weapons, conventional weapons (including self-made bombs), and even the internet as means to attack the United States government. The threats posed by these groups necessitates the U. S. government to plan for the detection, neutraliz...
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3,183 wordsWhat are the causes of terrorism and how can it be stopped? Terrorism and guerrilla warfare, whether justified as resistance to oppression or condemned as disrupting the rule of law, are as old as civilization itself. The power of the terrorist, however, has been magnified by modern weapons, including television, which he has learned to exploit. (Guerrillas and Terrorists) There are many definitions and forms of terrorism: biological and chemical, nuclear, international, cyber, criminal, environ...
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War Against Terrorism Terrorist Attacks
1,248 wordsBombs bursting in air are hardly glorifying. In order to understand why international terrorism is declining, one must look at psychological, physical, and societal aspects. Global Terrorism has been declining since the year 1987. In the year 1997, there were only half of the attacks than were in 1987. The statistics went from 666 down to 304 (Terrorism Primer 1). The 304 acts of terrorism was also one of the lowest annual totals recorded since 1971 (Patterns of Global Terrorism 1). While concer...
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2,547 wordsThe Threat of Islamic Terrorism With the collapse of the Soviet Union in the early 1990 s and the cold war over, the international community seemed to be on the threshold of an era of unprecedented peace and prosperity. Instead, a new series of problems was created, like ethnic conflicts, weapons proliferation, environmental problems, population growth, drug trafficking, and terrorism. Terrorism, as defined by Title 22 of the United States code, section 2656 f (d), is the pre-meditated, politica...
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1,616 wordsTerrorism by nature is difficult to define. Acts of terrorism conjure emotional responses in the victims as well as in the practitioners. No two writers agree on what is terrorism. Even the U. S. government cannot agree on one single definition. The old adage, " One mans terrorist is another mans freedom fighter" is still alive and well today (" Terrorism Research Center: Definitions" 1). Although many people believe that terrorism is evil, it is merely misunderstood because ...
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1,535 wordsTerrorism in the Webster? s New American Dictionary is defined as? the systematic use of intense fear as a means of coercion. ? In this day and age, the term terrorism is more than just the use of intense fear as a means of coercion but includes the use of terrorism as a means of revenge and pure sport and also as a means of suppression. While the dictionaries definitions says that it is the use coercion to promote certain ideologies, some of the most cleverly hidden terrorism today is the terro...
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