The modern day suicide bomber is effective in the sense that they do cause fear and death but is greatly overused that they rarely become news worthy. Immediately after the 9/11 attacks, the suicide bomber became all the rage and the ultimate fear of Americans. After ten years of war in the Middle East and Southwest Asia, the suicide bomber is cliché to the terrorist ideology and borderline boring and expected. Terrorists want to cause fear in a sense that causes a domino effect of destruction. Though the suicide bomber is effective, there is nothing more effective than the use of a biological attack in a crowded area. It is quiet, lethal and takes a long time to detect the source and even longer time to trace it back to a suspect. Within …show more content…
A bio-terror attack has happened and no one is safe.
Selected CBRN agent background: According to the Center for Disease Control, VX is one of the nerve agents, which are the most toxic of the known chemical warfare agents. It is tasteless and odorless. Exposure to VX can cause death in minutes. As little as one drop of VX on the skin can be fatal. Nerve agents are chemically similar to organophosphate pesticides and exert their effects by interfering with the normal function of the nervous system. (CDC 2015)
Proposed Terrorist Scenario: More sophisticated terrorist networks understand the need to strike on the inside and let their target implode instead of explode. More damage is done when and infrastructure is taken down over the death of 30 people. The day after Thanksgiving known as Black Friday is the busiest holiday shopping day in the United States. Millions of people are up in the early hours to take advantage of early deals and limited items. Being that it takes a mere drop of the nerve agent VX to be fatal, a cup of VX in aerosol form has the potential to be more devastating than the 9/11 attacks. A large, multi-level mall is the primary target of such attack. At a point
While hijacked airplanes on 9/11 caused the most fatalities of any single terrorist incident, the majority of terrorist attacks are carried out by conventional explosives and secondary devices. This is a broad category that includes incendiary devices, pressure bombs, car bombs, and any other explosive device. These weapons are low cost, low tech, and easy to construct. Out of the five CBRNE categories, explosives are by far the most likely hazard to be encountered (FEMA,
The Oklahoma City Bombing of 1995 is known to be the “worst act of homegrown [domestic] terrorism in the nation’s history” (FBI, 2010). On April 19, 1995, Timothy McVeigh, parked a rented box truck outside of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in downtown Oklahoma City. No one knew that, “inside the vehicle was a powerful bomb made out of a deadly cocktail of agricultural fertilizer, diesel fuel, and other chemicals” (FBI, 2010). Before he exited the vehicle and headed towards his getaway car, he ignited two timed fuses – at exactly 9:02AM, the bomb exploded. The explosion killed 168 people, 19 of those being children, and injured nearly 650 (Scott, 2013).
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.
On May 22, of 2011 Osama bin Laden was killed in Pakistan. Osama was the leader of a terrorist group called al-Qaeda. He was Islamic, and assumed responsible for orchestrating the attack on the twin towers. The US had been searching for him for nearly a decade, but he was finally found and killed by the US Navy SEALs. He was buried at sea, because that was the custom and Islamic tradition. This photo shows Osama bin Laden, before he was killed by the US.
Opening Paragraph, Thesis Statement: As the U.S is faced with the threat of terrorism, all branches of the government must contribute in order to ensure the safety of all American citizens; President Obama has a set of standards and procedures for handling terrorist threats, the Legislative Branch has agreed to these policies and addition, created an insurance program to protect those affected by terrorism, and the Supreme Court has heard cases in order to ensure the President’s standards are upheld and procedures are followed.
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.
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.
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.
Osama bin Laden came from a very well-known Saudi family (Rosen). His father had his own successful construction company and was even close to the royal family (Rosen). His father died in a helicopter crash when Osama was only ten years old (Rosen). Bin Laden inherited a portion of his father’s fortune and became very wealthy (Rosen). However, bin Laden wanted to do something incredible in his own right to really live up to the “bin Laden” name (Rosen). He ended up finding a way to do so by successfully leading Afghanistan to defeat the Soviets
I share similar opinions with you in regards to the United States choosing to fight without proper negotiation for certain wars. At the time, President Obama had believed that the war in Afghanistan was a war of necessity, not a war of choice. However, there is evidence that suggests otherwise. For example, the United States did try to make a deal with the Taliban to turn over Osama bin Laden, like you mentioned. However, it was unnecessary to bomb the cities in Afghanistan so quickly after America was denied. The Taliban had only refused to hand over bin Laden because the United States didn’t provide any proof or evidence that he was actually involved in the 911 attacks. In other words, the Taliban weren’t actually refusing to turn him over
Osama bin Mohammed bin Awad bin Laden was a Saudi Arabian that came from a very wealthy family. He was born the seventeenth child out of fifty-two to the family of billionaire Mohammed bin Awad bin Laden in Saudi Arabia. From an early age he was somewhat obsessed with religion and politics. During his time in school he was devoting more of his time and money to advance Islam and Islamism. While Bin Laden was studying at a university in 1979 he decided to join the Mujahedeen military in Pakistan that was combating Soviet Union forces in Afghanistan. Bin Laden gained popularity by assisting the Mujahedeen in finances, personnel recruitment, and arms supply. After the war he moved to Afghanistan and declared war on the United States. It was he who founded the Al-Qaeda, which was the group that masterminded the September 11 attacks on the United States, along other numerous terror attacks around the world. From 2001 till his death in 2011, bin Laden was the number one target of the war on terror with a $25-million-dollar bounty placed on his head by the FBI. He was eventually shot and killed in a compound in
For this, suicide terrorism will used; the perpetrator will infect himself and serve the function of a delivery platform. Though in the context of bombings, it has been said that “the prevalence of suicide terrorism during the last two decades testifies to its gruesome effectiveness” (Sprinzak 2009). By choosing the guaranteed death of the operator (in this case, via the disease), the perpetrator does not need to place effort into personal or organizational repercussions; if the individual does not wish to die a slow, painful death, they always have the option of directly taking their own life through traditional suicide tactics after the job has been done. By spreading the disease at a national event, it will cause localized and country-wide damage. Even though the disease does not become contagious until after symptoms begin to appear, the infected individuals will be carrying it back to where they work and live, whether in Colorado Springs or elsewhere. It should be noted that this also spreads concern throughout the country and places strain on medical communities throughout the nation. Falcon Stadium has a capacity of over forty-six thousand (Air Force Athletics n.d.). If even a fraction of these peoples became infected, it would be catastrophic and present a renewed national focus on biodefense,
According to data from the University of Maryland’s Global Terrorism Database (GTD) , 280 terrorist attacks have occurred in the United States since September 11, 2001 to December 2015. Of those 280 attacks, only 45 resulted in at least one fatality. The 45 attacks killed 127 people. Those 127 victims weren’t largely killed by bombs or chemical agents as the social perceptions of terrorism may lead us to believe, but by guns. A firearm was the sole weapon of attack in over 62% of the fatal incidents. In other words, firearms alone are responsible for 6 out of every 10 deaths caused by terrorism in the United States. While bombings like those at the Boston Marathon and the Oklahoma City Federal building do occur, they are lethal anomalies. The consistent weapon of choice of terrorism in the 21st century is a gun. To put this into perspective, four mass shootings alone in 2016 have killed 63 people. That’s nearly half of all the people killed in terrorist attacks since 9/11 in just seven