On May 1st one of the Greatest Military operation had taken place. Osama Bin Laden had been killed. The C.I.A had been tracking a man in Abbottabad, Pakistan. They referred to him as the pacer because he would only walk around within the walls of his house and then disappear back into his house. They used his shadow to find his height and it matched the same as bin laden. A C.I.A agent had originally want to drop 32 2,000lb on the compound. But President wanted confirmation that they really did kill Bin Laden and wanted to minimize collateral damage. Prior to this Seal Team Six had been training in a replica home of bin laden. They trained with the Army’s 160th Special Operations Aviation Regiment (Airborne). Or also known as the Nightstalkers. …show more content…
The original plan was to take to helicopter and take group 1 onto the roof and Team 2 on the ground. The didn't go so well when one of the Modified black hawk helicopter had started to lose altitude because of the 10 ft wall. The helicopter crashed inside the compound. Then instead the other helicopter landed outside of the wall to drop of the seal. The team at first had no idea what happened and when the were gonna blow a hole into the wall to get inside tone of their teammates had opened the front gate for them. When inside of the compound they were engaged by men who came from the compound and were quickly neutralized. A team had gone inside while the other team had stayed outside for security. When securing the house they encountered children which were believed to have suicide vest were shot in the leg and were moved out of the way. Once they reached the 2nd floor of the 3 story house they encountered bin laden's son who had a weapon and was shot and killed. When they proceed to the final floor 2 women came out of the room and were tackled by the point man because he believed they carried suicide vest and wanted to absorb the blast in order to save his teammates they weren't carrying suicide
Saddam Hussein was the former president of Iraq for over twenty years. Born on April 28, 1937, in Tikrit, Iraq, Saddam Hussein was a secularist who rose through the Baath political party to assume a dictatorial presidency. Under his rule, segments of the populace enjoyed the benefits of oil wealth, while those in opposition faced torture and execution. After military conflicts with U.S.-led armed forces, Hussein was captured in 2003. He was later executed.
Osama Bin Laden changed the world on September 11, 2012, when he orchestrated the 9/11 bombings on the World Trade Center in New York City. He has also formulated many other attacks including the October 2000 attack on the USS Cole, and attacks on the US embassies in Nairobi, Kenya, and Dar es Salaam, Tanzania in 1998 (Encyclopedia of World 1). Osama Bin Laden had a negative influence on societies, economies, and religion throughout the world because of his actions in masterminding many radical terrorist attacks, and because he created and funded al-Qaeda.
Based on this week's reading and lesson notes, evaluate the arguments and evidence that terrorist groups are likely or unlikely to use CBRN weapon. In particular, what do you think are the prospects for al Qaeda and/or other sub-state actors to acquire and use a CBRN weapon in a foreign country? In the United States? Why or why not?
T- Despite what Islam believes and teaches against suicide and the killing of the innocent, terrorist group as such as Al Qaeda have been made to mark the absence of mankind.
From a western perspective, Osama Bin Laden in nothing more than an inhuman murderer, therefore no one spends time to investigate why he does what he does, and for what reasons thousands of people sacrificed their lives for his cause, however, a quick glimpse through his excerpt shows that he does have an ideology that can be very appealing to a large number of people, any person that feels targeted by the United States can potentially find his claims to be persuasive, therefore, Bin Laden is not simply an insane man, he is smart man that was successful in gathering thousands around him despite being fought in every single aspect.
The United States has been affected by terrorism in many ways. Airport and airplane security has become stricter, the psychological state of American citizens has worsened, and the economy went downhill. Unfortunately, the aftermath of terrorism is still felt in the United States today.
By August 11, 2001 “all 19 hijackers are, in fact, already in the U.S. on visas obtained under their actual names.” Having this in mind, it should be already known that the hijackers are doing nothing to conceal their identity while within the United States. That same day, it is known that “President Bush is on vacation in Crawford, Texas, where five days earlier he had been warned by the CIA of a possible attack in a paper titled: “Bin Laden Determined to Strike in U.S.”” This document states that al-Qaeda members are believed to be residing in the U.S., and that the U.S. embassy in United Arab Emirates received a call articulating that “a group of bin Laden supporters was in the U.S. planning attacks with explosives.” The president then
Osama Bin Laden was the leader of the Al-Qaeda terrorist group. He was the man behind the 9/11 terrorist attack. He was a hard critic of the United States.He was first on the FBI’s most wanted list. Osama orchestrated two bombings of the U.S. embassies in East Africa in 1998. Also, he was responsible for the bombing of the USS Cole in the Port of Aden.
A Muslim cannot seperate Sharia from their religion, it is a part of them. Carmen has also noticed Sharia taking affect in European countries and Canada. I believe the western countries are far too advanced to allow the very thing that will destroy us to take over. We must keep our beliefs and steer away from Sharia, because it is destructive and harmful to basic human
The security risks would be very high in a situations like this one. The followers of Osama bin Laden would do any and everything necessary to get his release during the detention. Lives would be lost in the process and it would cause unnecessary attacks from that country. I think they would capture one of our soldiers, government official, or citizen and inflict torture to them just to prove a point. They would not stop at blowing something up killing as many people as possible as well.
The proposal was to send eight America Helicopters to the embassy compound and capture/bring the hostages home. Two of the helicopters got caught in a dust storm flying from the USS Nimitz to a road acting as a airstrip in the Great Salt Desert and got disabled after the they traveled without radio communications. The next morning the remaining six helicopters met up at Desert One (Landing and refueling site) to which a third helicopter was marked unserviceable. As the helicopters were repositioning for refueling one of them ran into a C-130 Tanker Aircraft killing eight service men. In the end, this operation ended in failure, the death of eight service men, and no hostages rescued. On April 25, one of the helicopters that was going to be used to try to receive and bring home the hostages was moving to refuel when it crashed into a C-130 Tanker Aircraft as you can see the wing of in this photograph. Instead of saving lives, on this day America lost eight. The
On the morning of 13 July 2014, American forces were dealt a devastating blow when Anti Afghan Forces attacked a remote joint US and Afghan outpost that was in the early days of construction. The result, nine US Army Soldiers KIA (killed in action), 27 US Army Soldiers WIA (wounded in action), and six Afghan Army Soldiers WIA. The complex attack consisted of RPG (rocket propelled grenade), PKM (light machine gun), RPK (7.62mm Soviet model light machine gun), and hand grenades. This was one of the highest casualty producing battle’s American forces encountered throughout the entire Afghan War. There has been much debate on whether higher echelons as well as the immediate chain of command were to blame for this tragedy. Although the 60mm and 120mm mortar systems were rendered inoperable
Saddam Hussein did not comply with the UN Resolutions and in December 1998, he expelled the UN inspectors of weapons from Iraq. His actions and noncompliance with the UN Resolutions represented a threat to international peace (Shah, 2006). As a result, President Bill Clinton (president of the United Sates at the time) fired 450 missiles into Iraq. He also called for Saddam Hussein “removal from office” (Shah, 2006) and the U.S. congress approved the Iraqi Liberation Act (ILA) which authorized U.S. “military help to Iraqis trying to dethrone Saddam” (Shah, 2006). The U.S. bombarding to Iraq and pressures to Hussein did not intimidate him. Saddam Hussein continued to reject to allow UN inspectors of weapons of mass destructions to return to Iraq.
Focus of your Own: 3 thick questions (open ended questions: how, why) and the answers to those questions.
One major player in ISIS is Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi. He is the leader of the Islamic extremist group in western Iraq, Libya, northeast Nigeria and Syria. Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi has many nicknames including Abu Du´a. Supporters often refer to him as Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi al-Husseini al-Hashimi al-Qurashi. Abu Du´a keeps a low profile and it is unknown where he is located. Little is known about his family life, other than he has two wives named Asma Fawzi Mohammed al-Dulaimi and Israa Rajab Mahal A-Qaisi. ISIS (ISIL or Islamic State) has captured and beheaded many American journalists and citizens. One by the name of James Foley. James was abducted on November 22, 2012. He died on August 19, 2014 after being beheaded by the group. James was 38 when