Who is ISIS a) Over the recent weeks, ISIS released several videos via the internet of civilians having ties to the US or it's allies being brutaly murdered by way of beheading. Last week a video had surfaced from ISIS titled: "Another Message To America and it's Allies" showing a Volunteer Aid Worker Alan Henning being murdered just after brief statements from both Henning and the individual who authorities believe to be the same individual on recent ISIS videos. b) "I am Alan Henning. Because of our parliement's decision to attack the Islamic State, I as a member of the British Public will now pay the price for that decision." Henning makes the fourth civilian to be killed by way of beheading at the hands of ISIS since August.
The distinction is more than merely rhetorical. For all our necessary emphasis on what we're fighting -- Islamic terrorists bent on the destruction of the West and the establishment of a new caliphate -- we cannot forget what we're fighting for. In March of 2003, the president and a bipartisan congress insisted we needed to invade Iraq in order to thwart Saddam's plans to develop WMD and outsource it to Jihadi surrogates. The nuclear WMD risk was, and remains, a perilous impending threat, though significantly reduced with the removal of Saddam's regime. But seasoned intelligence and national security analysts would argue that our ultimate objective -- to establish an Islamic democracy in the cradle of the Islamic world in order to protect our vital national interests -- is as critical, if not more so today, as it was in 2003.
In 1907, 1,200 government officials were murdered in political terrorist attacks by revolutionaries. Meaning that the revolutionary ideas and parties were still strong and threatening the government position. They tackled this problem by making the trial and punishment system harder and harsher. Stolypin (the Tsar Chief Minister) was the main man responsible for this, he met terror with terror by using field court Martials – these involve the armed forces deciding who’s guilty and what their punishments should be. Due to the stricter and tougher jury system 1,144 death sentences were handed out between October 1906
The climax of the Red Terror is often described as “Yezhovshchina” because of Yezhov’s extreme violence and maliciousness throughout the purges. The period in which the purges were at their peak was the spring of 1938 – the pinnacle of Yezhov’s career[9]. From January 23 to 30, 1937 the trial of Seventeen took place[10]. The key players involved were Karl Radek, Yuri Piatakov and Gregory Sokolnikov, each of whom was accused of plotting against Stalin. Once again, through increased persecution and torture, confessions surfaced[11], 13 out of the 17 defendants were shot, and the rest were put into labor camps and eventually died from the severe conditions.
Over 6,000 lives, most of them American, have been lost because of his actions. Many Muslims have now been given a stereo type of being “violent terrorists,” just because of the alacrities of a handful of extremists. Due to bin Laden’s interfering with the United States, they abortively invaded Afghanistan, punching a dent in President Bush’s presidency, and throwing the economy into turmoil. Any hope of returning to the former lifestyle that Americans had once enjoyed has been long dissipated. Al-Qaeda, the terrorist group that he founded in the early 1980’s, has been encouraging other minor terrorists to take action, making the world an over-all more dangerous place to live.
The raid and killing of its ring leader tremendously crippled the group. Notably, the killing of Osama bin Laden opened a path for other major killings of the al-Qaida gang leaders. For instance, as of last year, the U.S intelligence team claimed to have killed about half of al-Qaida’s top 20 leaders in attacks and raids by armed drones. Some of these bin Laden’s lieutenants claimed to have been killed include Ilyas Kashmiri. Ilyas was considered as one of the most dangerous strategists and operational commanders of al-Qaida.
2 December 2012 The Battle of Fallujah The Battle of Fallujah changed the way the U.S. Marine Corps trains and fights today. This was the biggest battle in urban terrain since Hue City, Vietnam in 1968. The whole fight over the city was broken down into four phases. The first phases came with the fall of Saddam Hussein in April of 2003. The second phase is the one known by many of us, when four American contractors were killed and their bodies mutilated.
Charlie Manson made people believe murdering was right. Manson led what became to be known as “the Family” whom he manipulated into brutality killing others on his behalf. To the world Manson had become an icon of evil. Many times after a murder, Charles Manson and “the family” would write blood on the walls and killed his victims in a brutal way. In a trial Susan Atkins (a member of “the family”) responded to the judge by saying, "Better lock your doors and watch your own kids"(4).
And putting a bullet through his head” (Collins 62). Unintentionally, Katniss has reinforced the rebellion causing the entire district to go into madness. This is just one example of the rebellion being one of the main themes in this book. Another instance that shows how revolt is a primary theme is when Katniss meets two travelers from District 8, Twill and Bonnie. These two travelers are making their way to District 13, which is believed to have been destroyed seventy-five years ago.
The United States and its coalition partners remain at war against al Qaeda and its affiliates in Afghanistan and around the world. Since Osama bin Laden declared war on the United States in 1996, al Qaeda and its partners have launched repeated attacks that have killed thousands of innocent Americans and hundreds of civilians from other countries. The administration states that the law of armed conflict