Terrorism+and+End+of+Year

USS Cole

British Bus Bombings

Madrid Subway

Mumbai Attack

Similarities: All of the attacks are done on places where there would be many people, cause fear and significant damage and destruction.

Difference- Different Places around the world including England, Spain and India and different things are being attacked, a ship, a bus, a subway and building.

Key Terms: 1) Terrorism- The act of doing something, usually violent, directed towards innocent people for the purpose of inspiring fear into them and gaining attention for beliefs.

2) Osama bin Laden- An Arab terrorist born in 1957 who founded and lead the terrorist group Al-Qaeda and killed by US special forces authorized by President Barack Obama in 2011.

3) September 11- An event that took place September 11, 2001 in which Arab terrorists hijacked American airplanes and used them as bombs on buildings such as the Pentagon and the World Trade Center in New York City.

4) Munich Olympics 1972- An event in which a Palestinian terrorist group kidnapped and killed Israeli athletes and coaches in an act of getting their message of hate towards Israel known.

5) State Sponsored Terrorism- The act of a Government terrorizing its own citizens for its own devices or to support a larger international terrorist act and/or group.

6) Islamic Jihad- Terrorist group with Iranian ties that uses car bombings as a signature terrorist act to attempt to place Iranian states in Egypt and Lebanon.

7) Al-Qaeda- Operating in over 50 countries this large terrorist group larger opposed to the US gives money, weapons, training, etc to Islamic Terrorists around the world. 8) Middle East- Region stretching from Turkey, to Northern Africa to Iran originally was home place of historic civilizations including the Babylonians and Phoenicians and was the birthplace of Christianity, Judaism and Islam now has major turmoil since the 20th century including numerous terrorist organizations against the US and its allies.

Task 3 I think the main idea of the article will be how terrorism and war coincide. CCQs: I agree the current wars we are in are in no way conventional. "War on Terror" is both symbolic and literal. Summary: The term "War on Terror" both does and does not indicate a specific war. It does because is currently fighting a war in reaction to terrorists attacks on September 11, 2001. However, the fight against terrorism also means just simple, even non-violent actions to eliminate terror. Seeing as terrorists exist not only exist in the Middle east but in Ireland and the United States among other places, it is a global effort to stop terror.

New Words: ubiquitous- To be everywhere existential- Having to do with human existence, usually threatening something. media type="custom" key="9664108"

6-6-11 Do Now Number 2 1) The reason al-Qaeda hates the United States and all things western is not only the technology but also the fact that the western ideals and eastern ideals are completely different. al-Qaeda disagrees with how the US handles issues from foreign policy to domestic issues as insignificant as what kind of clothes the citizens wear. 2) The United States responded to the attacks of 9-11 with war on Afghanistan and signed the Patriot Act, which some say, takes away Constitutional Civil Liberties.I disagree with these, violence won't solve violence and the Patriot Act is too invasive, the security shows how the US is now weak and the terrorists win!

Originally, the US didn't go into Iraq for the right reasons seeing as the WMD's were gone when we arrived, but the fact they were still able to prevent terrorist attacks was good, but it still looks incredibly foolish that the original mission failed.

First time US stated a war (maybe except American Revolution) Iraq!

Ricardo- He believes the UN's goal is to come together to help countries, like in 1944 they helped Europe and now they are helping African countries among others and having rules hopefully approved by everyone.

Today- The 9/11 Terrorists found it incredibly easy to sneak their weapons on planes and hijack them. Now, it can be considered that there goal was accomplished because we now fear them and have stepped up security, which is a lose-lose situation because if we have little security we are vulnerable, but with high security, their goal is complete and some citizens aren't happy with the extra hassles of travel. We also learned that President Bush sent troops to Iraq (the first time the US ever started a war) to get rid of WMD's we knew existed, they were already gone, but we managed to eliminate terrorists salvaging the point of the invasion somewhat.

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