Informative Essay On 9/11

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United States: Ground Zero Terrorism is a criminal act that influences an audience beyond the immediate victim. The terrorists plan their attack to obtain great publicity and choosing targets that symbolize what they oppose. We will always remember September 11, 2001. Most of us can remember our locations on this horrific Tuesday morning as we witnessed the second plane hit the South Tower. We felt vulnerable and grieved as we tried to piece the puzzle of this horrendous catastrophe we wondered who was to blame for this attack. Many of us still don’t feel safe. What is the root of such hatred? Our lives changed instantaneously the deaths of adults who were killed in the attacks or died in rescue operations…show more content…
The intelligence agencies failed to link critical fragments of information that could have revealed Al-Qaeda’s plot and prevent the attacks. It was the intelligence agencies job’s after all to detect and intercept attacks on American interests at home and abroad. CIA’s officials failed to do everything possible to confront terrorism and also failed to share information with the FBI. The 9/11 commission that looked into the intelligence failure concluded different intelligence agencies had different bits of information that no one put the pieces of the information together. The aftermath of 9/11 forced Congress to make significant changes in the intelligence community to improve and prevent future attacks. Congress created new posts to coordinate all US intelligence efforts, the Director of National Intelligence, Department of Homeland Security, National Counterterrorism Center, and many other agencies. Although the intelligence agencies have become a stronger community they will still come across short comings. According to former NCTC chief Leiter “The counterterrorism community of which I was part of, works as hard as it possibly can every day of the year, it’s a 24/7, 365 day-a-year operation globally. But no matter how good we are, no matter how much we’ve improved information-sharing, no matter how much we improve our information technology, things are going to get

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