(fbi.gov, 2008) The World Trade Center’s parking garage located in Manhattan, NYC has exploded with a manmade bomb. The attack turned out to be something of a deadly dress rehearsal for 9/11…Al Qaeda would later return… (fbi.gov, 2008). The U.S. was violated by a terrorist attack from those comparable to Al-Qaeda. According to History.com a few radical Islamic fundamentalists were arrested, convicted and sentenced to life by a federal jury for their role in the bombing. One may say this incident alone foretells the following acts to follow.
Court: SUPREME COURT OF CALIFORNIA, IN BANK Judicial History: Defendant was charged by information with the murder of Joseph H. Anderson and with assault with intent to murder William Russell Locklear. A jury convicted defendant of first degree felony murder and of assault with a deadly weapon; it fixed the penalty for the murder at death. This appeal is automatic. Conviction of murder is reversed. Facts: Defendant Butler was charged with the murder of Joseph Anderson and assault with attempt to murder William Russell Locklear.
S. Code as premeditated politically motivated violence, perpetrated against noncombatant targets by sub-national groups or clandestine agents usually intended to influence an audience. ( Peak , 2010) The FBI defines terrorism as either being “domestic or international terrorism”. Domestic terrorism refers to those terrorist activities that occur within the United States proper and perpetrated by US citizen. An example of domestic terrorism is the 1996 bombing of the federal building in Oklahoma City. International terrorism is a terrorist activity that involved the citizens or the territory of more than one country.
The 9 11 Commission report, set out to “prepare a full and complete account of the circumstances surrounding the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks”, found out that 19 arab hijackers led by Osama Bin Laden breached the Unites States’ defense system, crashed into the twin towers and pentagon, and eventually resulted in structural failure of the Twin Towers leading to the collapse. However, the failure of our defense system, the collapse of the World Trade Centers, and the illogical explanation of the attack on the pentagon seemed to only point fingers at the inside of our nation, not the outside! The government’s official investigation, the 9 11 commission, stated that due to miscommunication and unpreparedness of these two institutions, the attacks were done at a success. It is important to aknowledge that there have been many contradicting statements to their official story (Bhaerman). Such statements have been ignored by the 9 11 commission.
Domestic Terrorism in the United States of America Student’s Name: Instructor’s Name: Institutional Affiliation: Date: Abstract The United States of America is currently engaged globally in the fight against terrorism. A number of foreign terrorist have attacked the United States abroad, in its embassies and other interests and also in its soil as happened in September 11th. Though the issue of international terrorism is a huge challenge for the United States government there exists even another challenge of domestic terrorism in America. These are American citizens or other nationalities that live in America, who driven by their evil ideologies intimidate and attack other innocent civilians or their property. This paper evaluates
On that date nineteen hijackers and various members of Al-Qaeda planned out attacks on specific U.S. places. Osama Bin Laden had declared a “Holy War” against the U.S. and the killing of any American civilians in 1998. In 1998 Osama Bin Laden and four others had signed a fatwa which authorized indiscriminate, or I love to use the word “random”, killing of any American and Jews anywhere anytime. Anyways these nineteen hijackers and Al-Qaeda members had coordinated four attacks in New York City and Washington DC. These attacks known as Terrorism acts (apologize if I speak in manner in which I sound like I don’t consider these people terrorist.
This caused him to be one step ahead of everyone. Capone was finally found guilty on June 16, 1931 due to tax evasion. He was then sentenced to 11 years in federal prison. After he was released he was diagnosed with syphilis dementia and later died on January 25, 1947. Body Paragraph 2: Bonnie and Clyde was a well known criminal couple who went on a two-year crime spree during the Great Depression.
In July 1979 Bundy was found guilty of the murders and assaults. He received 270 year. Ted Bundy was his own lawyer till his last day alive. He was sent to be executioned on January 25,
In the early 1980s, Harrelson was convicted of murdering federal judge John Wood with a high-powered rifle, and is currently serving his sentence in a Texas prison. During the stand-off that preceded his arrest, Harrelson not only confessed to killing Judge Wood, but also said he had been involved in the Kennedy assassination. Harrelson later retracted his statement about having taken part in the assassination, claiming he had fabricated it under the influence of cocaine. When arrested, Harrelson was found to be carrying the business card of R. D. Matthews, who, according to the HSCA, was acquainted with Jack Ruby and with other Dallas crime figures. At Harrelson's trial, Joe Chagra, the brother of the man who was believed to have hired Harrelson, testified that Harrelson was given the contract to kill Judge Wood after he claimed to have participated in the JFK assassination.
Other evidence for the claim of more than three shots fired was the FBI photographs of the limousines, showing a bullet hole in the windshield of the vehicle above the rear-view mirror. The Warren Commission ignored the evidence”. The Government's response was that it "occurred prior to Dallas". (Robert Groden The Killing of a President 1993, p. 41) Then there is also the very popular CIA conspiracy. This is due to a man named John M. Newman who was a former U.S. Army Intelligence officer and National Security Agency executive assistance .He published evidence that both the CIA and FBI had tampered deliberately with their files on Lee Harvey Oswald both before and after the assassination.