Homeland Security was established in response to the biggest terrorist attack on U.S. soil on September 11‚ 2001. This attack sparked the nation and caused fear among citizens as well as opening eyes of the government to how much stronger the security level had to be in the country. U.S. officials began to reconstruct the Office of Homeland Security once they recognized their shortcomings. Eleven days after‚ following the attack‚ Tom Ridge was appointed from being the governor of Pennsylvania to the
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The 9/11 attacks on the World Trade Center was the largest attack on U.S. soil to date‚ but it destroyed more than just buildings. It is well known that 2‚974 people in lower Manhattan and 343 first responders from the Fire Department of the City of New York were killed in the line of duty. However‚ it is lesser known that for the next 10 months‚ until the site closed on July 25‚ 2002‚ FDNY workers were continually subjected to dangerous working conditions‚ fear for the personal safety and were in
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War Against Terror The September 11 2001 (9/11)‚ terrorist attacks on the United States changed the perspective of the world towards terrorism especially the Al Qaeda. The world‚ in particular the major powers came to realize that the greatest threat they had in the 21st centaury was global terrorism and President Bush once said‚ “Al Qaeda is to terror what the Mafia is to crime” (George Bush‚ 2001‚p.2). Just few days after September 11 2001‚ President Bush delivered a speech in which he
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The Successful War started on september 11‚ 2001‚ when the terrorists attacked the Twin Towers in New York City. At 8:45 a.m.‚ a hijacked plane with 81 passengers‚ 9 flight attendants‚ and two pilots crashed into the north tower of the World Trade Center. At 9:03 a.m.‚ a second plane crashed into the remaining Twin Tower. Another hijacked plane proceeded to crash into the Pentagon‚ killing 125 Americans‚ and a fourth plane crashed into a field in rural Pennsylvania‚ never reaching it’s target because
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Fight? Terrorism attacks are nothing new to the world. They have existed since the beginning of civilization‚ from a random attack of a different kingdom or country to random suicide bombings in the Middle East. A terrorist attack can be viewed from different perspectives‚ but Americans have changed their view on what a terrorist attack is and have even misconstrued that terrorists are solely Middle Eastern people. Ever since the catastrophic attack on U.S. soil on September 11‚ 2001‚ Americans have
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English 102 11/30/2012 Homeland At the beginning of the twenty-first century everything changed for the United States of America. Hundreds of people were forced to jump to their deaths. Four airplanes‚ used as suicidal attack vessels‚ quaked the earth and the Pentagon as they hit their targets. Thousands of people died as the towers fell. It all happened Tuesday morning‚ September 11‚ 2001. Al-Qaeda‚ an Islamist militant group‚ was responsible for this brutal terrorist attack. It forced
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the previous versions of al-Qaeda that the world has known. After three distinguishable generations of the al-Qaeda network – generation 1.0 which includes the years before the shocking attack on New York City and Washington D.C. on September 11‚ 20011; generation 2.0 which ranges from the September 11th attacks to the death of al-Qaeda’s charismatic leader‚ Osama bin Laden in 2011; and finally‚ al-Qaeda generation 3.0‚ in which different forms of al-Qaeda-based terrorist syndicates2‚ or lone wolves3
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the publication of The Clash of Civilizations in 1993‚ the relevancy of such theories can now be discussed in 2010. Discussing the relevance of The Clash of Civilizations does not need to be brought forward to 2010 for analysis. September 11‚ 2001 terrorist attacks were by far the most significant single event after the Cold War. It was here in which America’s foreign policy was brought to attention and particular its policy towards the perpetrators who originated from the Middle East. The world’s
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assumptions are not exactly true of all Muslims. The Post 9/11 also brought a heightened amount of security in busy places especially airports. A source from the foundation of protection officers talks about the extents that airports went to increase security to ensure safer flights and a smaller chance of something happening in the air. The airline industry is one the fastest industries to upgrade their security. Since the terrorist attacks occurred from high jacked airplanes‚ the airline industry
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Shingo Yamane Religion and Terrorists I didn ’t know the word “terrorist” until September 11th in 2001. That day is the day when people all over the world couldn ’t believe their eyes. Who had ever seen the moment when two airplanes crashed into the towers? It was the very shocking moment. I just came home from school and turned on TV‚ and then all the channels were filled up with the emergency news of that unexpected incident. Even though I was only nine years old on that time‚ I was old enough
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