In the News: Boston Marathon Bombings CRMJ 450 Boston Marathon Bombings The Boston Marathon Bombings took place not too long ago, it occurred on April 15, 2013. It was an unexpected terrorist attack in Boston, Massachusetts. The incident was carried out by two brothers, later identified as Dzhokhar and Tamerlan Tsarnaev. The two brothers carried out the terrorist attacks by planting bombs inside trash cans that were located in the Boston Marathon - to detonate near the finish line of the Boston Marathon race. There were a total of three bombs, made out of pressure cookers, which were filled with nails.
Many people died that day, and many people today still mourn the losses. The United States also loss the most famous building in the World, The New York City Twin Towers-World Trade Center which was about 110 stories tall. Since these attacks, many actors and non-state actors involved in the foreign policy and international relations decisions have taken many steps to prevent this from happening again. The effects of foreign policies and international relations are influenced on three levels and can be analyzed from a paradigm perspective in order to understand how to combat terrorism. The September 11, 2001 event happened at about 8:30 am were about 19 terrorist from the Taliban an al-Qaeda Islamic group, hijacked two American Airlines Boeing 767 flights 11 and flight 175 and crashed them into the Twin Towers in New York City.
2. Evaluate the criminal act (i.e. what was the Modus Operandi, Why did he do it). The Telegraph 9:30am BST 05 June 2011 Derrick Bird. The 52 year old Taxi driver from Cumbria started his killing spree, mid- morning, in Lamplugh.
But Wikileaks was famous by the “ Collateral Murder”. In April 2010, An Apache gunship attacked and killed civilians and journalists in Baghdad in 12 July 2007. After that, more than seventy-six thousands documents called “Afghan War Diary”, which were not available for public, were published. After three yeas, The Iraq War Logs, which compiled about 400,000 documents, were released to the public review. In November 2010.
This brought about Islamophobia. Islamophobia is the bigotry and intolerance against Muslims (Fredman, 2001). The people especially Americans developed abhorrence and fright towards Muslims that led to fearing and disliking them. Islamophobia is also a practice of discerning against Muslims and not including them in financial, community and civic aspects of the state. The Muslims are looked at as people with no significance common to other cultures, a substandard cluster to the west and a vicious political idea rather than a religious conviction that it should be.
The attacks by Al Qaeda on September 11th were co-ordinated and calculated they hit the heart of capitalism and also the Pentagon another plane was ditched in a field in Pennsylvania which may have been heading for Washington D.C. almost three thousand people from many different countries were killed that day so the effects were felt world-wide. The response to this was the ongoing “War on Terror” with the deposition of the Taliban being the goal. Thirteen years later troops are still in Afghanistan and Iraq from both America and Britain although they are beginning to withdraw. Before the attacks of September 11th music had been used for protest there
During the movie a lot of black peoples churches gets burned down, and several murders are committed, all signed by the KKKs burning cross. The moves ends with that the FBI finds out that the KKK has killed the three civil right workers and arrests them one by one by tricks. Review on Mississippi Burning Mississippi Burning is a move directed by Alan Parker. The movie is based on a true story where three civil rights activists were murdered by the Ku Klux Klan's in 1964. Immediately FBI ´s agents Gene Hackman (a older man) and Willem Dafoe ( a younger msn)steps in based on their suspicion that the three civil rights activists were murdered.
Islamic Fundamentalism In 1993, Islamic terrorists bombed the World Trade Center in New York City, killing 7 people and injuring more than 1,000. In 1995, 19 Americans were killed and 500 were injured when Islamic terrorists blew up American barracks in Saudi Arabia. Islamic terrorists bombed U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania simultaneously in 1998, killing 258 and wounding more than 5,000. Seventeen U.S. servicemen were killed when Islamic terrorists bombed the USS Cole at a Yemen port in 2000. In 2001, Islamic terrorists hijacked four U.S. airliners and crashed them into the World Trade Center towers, the Pentagon, and rural Pennsylvania, killing more than 3,000 people.
They gave their final hugs and kisses to their husbands, wives and their children before heading to work. Within a few hours of waking, thousands of innocent Americans were brutally murdered in a hideous act of terrorism. This act of terror prompted our government officials to draft a law that would help protect us from terrorists. The month following the attack, this new law was drafted, considered and passed by the House and the Senate. This Act is named “Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism Act of 2001 (USA PATRIOT ACT).
The September 11 attacks were a series of four coordinated terrorist attacks launched by the Islamic terrorist group al-Qaeda upon the United States in New York City and the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area on Tuesday, September 11, 2001. Four passenger airliners were hijacked by 19 al-Qaeda terrorists so they could be flown into buildings in suicide attacks. Two of those planes, American Airlines Flight 11 and United Airlines Flight 175, were crashed into the North and South towers, respectively, of the World Trade Center complex in New York City. Within two hours, both towers collapsed with debris and the resulting fires causing partial or complete collapse of all other buildings in the WTC complex, as well as significant damage to ten other large surrounding structures. A third plane, American Airlines Flight 77, was crashed into the Pentagon, leading to a partial collapse in its western side.