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Oklahoma City Bombing World Trade Center
1,894 words... image $ 550 million in both damages to the twin tower and in lost revenue to the business housed there 31 -- as the more "high-tech" devices constructed out of military ordnance, with timing devices powered by computer micro-chips and detonated by sophisticated timing mechanisms used by their "professional" counterparts. 32 Finally, while on the one hand terrorism is attracting "amateurs, " on the other hand the sophistication and operational competence of the "professional" terrorists is al...
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World Trade Center September 11
881 wordsFreedom itself was attacked this morning by a faceless coward and freedom will be defended. Our fellow citizens, our way of life, our very freedom came under attack in a series of deliberate and deadly terrorist acts. The victims were in airplanes or in their offices secretaries, businessman and women, military and federal workers. Moms and dads, friends and neighbors. Thousands of lives were suddenly ended by, despicable acts of terror. The pictures of airplanes flying into buildings fires burn...
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World Trade Center Quality Of Life
617 wordsThe Western World is a constantly changing machine, steadily moving forward in technology, in quality of life, and in culture. These changes are usually controlled and consistent. The terrorist attacks that occurred on September 11 th changed all of that. In one morning, four airplanes changed America's quality of life and culture. Americans believe it's country was invulnerable to an attack. Two Generations have passed since the last attack on American soil, and that was thousands of miles of t...
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World Trade Centre World Trade Center
419 wordsAt 8: 45 am a hijacked plane crashed into the World Trade Centre, 9: 03 am a second hijacked plane crashed into the World Trade Centre. Again at 9: 43 am another hijacked plane crashed into the Pentagon, and one other hijacked plane was shot down at 10: 10 am as it was going towards Camp David. On September 11 th 2001 at 8: 45 am the first hijacked plane crashed into the World Trade Centre. American Airlines Flight 11 out of Boston, Massachusetts was the first out of four planes to be hijacked t...
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U S S World Trade Center
1,976 wordsMany have compared the terrorist attack on the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001 to the attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941. They argue that both attacks were just as astonishing, unwarranted and unpredictable. The World Trade Center buildings in New York City still lie in ruin, an icy reminder of the terrorist attack. Both the U. S. S. Arizona and the U. S. S Utah remain on the floor of Pearl Harbor, each a ghostly, decaying tomb reminding all of the thousands that gave their life...
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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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A War On Drugs Becomes Terrorism
1,265 wordsThe so-called war on drugs has long been an issue in the national press. As long as I can remember, campaigns like "just say no" have been encouraging children to stay away from illegal drugs. In the last few years, however, simple slogans have mutated into aggressively and often erroneously exaggerated media assaults. The purpose of such messages is to frighten drug users and prospective drug users into abstaining from use and to turn the public eye onto drugs in general. Two television commerc...
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World Trade Center Al Qaeda
3,393 words... knew three weeks before 9 - 11 that two hijackers, Nawaf al-Hazmi and Khalid al-Mihdhar, who were involved in the bombing of the USS Cole in November 2000, were in the United States. Although their names were listed in a watchlist of potential terrorists, which contained names of people for which the entry to the US is forbidden because of their terrorist connections, al-Hazmi and al-Mihdhar were not stopped at their entry into the US neither were they arrested later. Although the CIA knew t...
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World Trade Center Conflict Theory
999 wordsA terrible event took place on September 11 th 2001. Our nation was attacked, but not over seas or financially. This nation and its people were attacked here, within the United States, by our own planes. Members of the Islamic extremist group know as the Taliban attacked the United States and our way of life. The leader and financier of this group, Bin Ladin, is now the main suspect as the mastermind behind this attack. These people seek not only to destroy buildings and kill Americans, but they...
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Radical Islamic Revivalism And Nuclear Terrorism
1,516 wordsOn September 11 th, 2001, the world was shocked and appalled to learn of the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. A terrorist attack of such precision and magnitude was unheard of. In the wake of those attacks, individuals and nations alike have been forced to re-evaluate their perception of terrorism, especially the fanatical and seemingly amoral terrorism originating from the Middle East. Commonly referred to as Islamic fundamentalists, this group of radical theologian...
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World Trade Center Saudi Arabia
718 wordsI'll start with some personal information and background on Usama. According to a US government fact sheet He was born around 1955 in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. He is the youngest son of Muhammad Bin Laden, founder of a Saudi based construction firm heavily involved with the Saudi government. Usama is a multi-millionaire because of inheritance, not by any effort of his own. Usama left Saudi Arabia in 1979 to join the fighting in Afghanistan against the Soviet Union. He co-founded an organization know...
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