The Response (1) War on Terror In response to 9/11, George W. Bush, the US president established the War on Terror. There primary goal was to defeat Al-Qaeda and the Taliban dictatorship that was running Afghanistan and who were protecting Osama Bin Laden. On 7th October 2001 troops from US and the UK invaded Afghanistan. While the Taliban was defeated in weeks, Osama Bin Laden survived until 2011 and as of January
He went on to help form the Afghan Service Bureau also known as MAK this group played a key role in the anti-Soviet resistance. He went on to raise millions of dollars for the Afghan movement, what he later called the Afghan jihad. In the mid-1980s he moved out of Afghanistan and into Pakistan where he and a friend built their first training camp. During the 80s Osama continued to assist the Afghanistan nationals by building roads and constructing field hospitals. This made him very popular with the government and locals.
The US then backed the Shah, who took over as an absolute monarch in Iran, using violent suppression to put down any opposition. When he was overthrown, tensions rose between Iran and the US. These tensions boiled over when President Carter allowed the Shah to enter into America in order to seek medical treatment. This greatly angered people in Iran and led to the Iranian Hostage Crisis. Protestors stormed the American Embassy and seized fifty-two American hostages.
An example of conflict on an international level is the current war in Afghanistan which is predominantly a result of conflicting ideologies and during the time that the Taliban controlled Afghanistan, they allowed an organisation called al-Qaeda to have training camps there. In September 2001, nearly 3,000 people were killed in the 9/11 terrorist attacks. The United States believed that Osama Bin Laden - who was the head of al-Qaeda - was the man behind these attacks. There was a lot of international pressure on the Afghan leaders to hand over Osama Bin Laden. When the Taliban didn't do this, the United States decided they would use their armed forces.
News May 05, 2011 THE DEATH OF OSAMA BIN LADEN EFFECTING EVERYONE? By: Kawenvir Singh As Americans learned the death of Osama Bin Laden, the leader of Al-Qaeda, the streets of America had begun to flutter with celebration. The US Special Forces had been the ones who shot Bin laden. They had a lead from a courier in Pakistan that distinguished where Osama Bin Laden was hidden. A few of the Pakistan Citizens felt threatened and notified the US Special Forces right away that also knew.
Dershowitz makes it clear that he is skeptical about the idea of national ID cards and states that he supports national identity cards with chips matching a person’s fingerprints. I also support this idea for the same reason as him, the fact that fingerprints are difficult to fake. But how will having file of a person’s finger print make things so secure, and automatically determine who’s a terrorist and who’s not? Consider the attacks of 9/11. All of the highjackers had ID cards and passports yet they still were able to learn how to fly and even take over multiple planes to attack the United States.
Since this time, the Department of Homeland Security has done a great job in protecting this nation against terrorism through transit security and border patrol and also serving its purpose in regulating immigration, cyber security and providing aid to victims of natural disasters. I do believe, however, this department is better suited to prevent domestic terrorism rather than foreign terrorism. I believe Homeland Security is more than capable of preventing any form of domestic terrorism. The Department of Homeland Security is definitely beneficial to America’s safety but I do not believe it is prepared for another 9/11. Terrorist are very smart and very skilled when it comes to planning mass amounts of chaos and loss of life.
In other words, because of the jihad terrorists feel that they are enabled to kill in the name of Allah, and that is their stance. Considering the fact that in many cases a jihad is caused because of a clash between followers of different religions, each of whom believes that God is on their side and that the other side is of Satan, Al-Khaled does not understand why these terror organizations are killing so many Muslims in the name of God. In the documentary, we met a recruiter for Al-Qaeda named Zaid, who is tied to the suicide bombing that happened at Al-Khaled’s wedding. When asked about the event of many Muslims being killed by a terrorist that claimed it was God’s will, he
Bernie Madoff Scandal-The King of Ponzi Schemes This particular ethics case scrutinizes Bernie Madoff scandal in detail. This is an intriguing case that delves into how Bernie Madoff was able to conceal such large scale fraud for number of years. With this said, an appropriate problem statement for this specific case would be, “The SEC, along with number of those who had knowledge of the fraudulent activity simply swept the scandal under the rug”. Although the single largest issue concerning this case was Bernie Madoff’s blatant disregard for other in conducting the fraud, this fraud could have been detected at a much earlier stage. As the case illustrated, there were dozens of serious and valid red flags that SEC was bombarded with by efforts made from Harry Markopolos.
Not only did this study state that the weapons banned were only used in a small percent of crimes even before the ban, but also "found no statistical evidence of post-ban decreases in either the number of victims per gun-homicide incident, the number of gunshot wounds per victim, or the proportion of gunshot victims with multiple wounds. "(Koper, Roth 67) So even if Congress bans these vaguely named assault weapons it will most likely be as ineffective as the last time they did so. Some take issue with the ban not because of its’ functionality problems, but because they feel it violates their rights as