The Farook Incident Analysis

The bomb was set off by Timothy McVeigh, a Persian Gulf Veteran. He was a right wing radical linked to anti-government, white-supremacist, survivalist and militia groups. The events at Waco and Ruby Ridge influenced Timothy McVeigh, prompting him to take action against the United States government (“FBI”, The Oklahoma City Bombing: 20 Years After). Right wing ideology, as in the Turner Diaries, led him

McVeigh and Nichols saw an opportunity to destroy a building full of innocent people, because of their extremist mindset. They decided tp destroy a building full of innocent people who work because of their extremist ways. Something that was seemingly odd was that McVeigh was a Persian Gulf war veteran and Nichols was his military friend. A third man whose name was Michael Fortier also had information regarding the detonation of the bomb at the building, Fortier later plead guilty for harboring information of the explosion.

As stated earlier, the 9/11 attacks revealed the indomitable spirit of the US and awakened a sleeping giant, which was very reminiscent of the US response following the attacks by the Japanese on US forces in Hawaii. Both 9/11 and Pearl Harbor attacks galvanized the American people into action and caused the government to heavily invest resources to combat enemies of the US; the Axis enemies during World War II and “the terrorists”, wherever they may be located, following 9/11. One of the first NIST deficiencies to be corrected were the operational protocols for intra- and inter-agency communication. This, in part, has been addressed in the Incident Command System (ICS) since the purpose of ICS is to integrate operations between public safety entities at all levels of government.

The Oklahoma City Bombing was a very special event in American history, it was the biggest act of domestic terrorism until 9/11. The Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building, which was an office complex in Oklahoma City, was bombed and 168 people were killed. Timothy McVeigh, the subject of my paper, was behind the bombings, and later executed.

There has been speculation that the bombing of the federal building was to demonstrate the anti-government feelings over the 1993 government raid of the Branch Davidian Compound in Waco Texas. Both McVeigh and Nichols were once sited at the compound in Waco and were openly supporting the other Branch Davidians. The bombing occurred exactly two years to the day after the compound burned to the ground killing 80 men, women, and children after a 51-day standoff between the Branch Davidians and the FBI. The bombing definitely put the spotlight on other groups with anti-government sentiments.

The exact reason of why the committed this crime to this day is unclear. The personal journals of the two perpetrators referenced that they wanted the event to compete with those of the Oklahoma City bombing and other deadly events that happened in the United States around the 1900s. The attack is known as the deadliest High School shooting in the history of the United States.

Farook and Malik along with another accomplice walked in wearing all black tactical gear and were yielding machine guns. Both the handguns recovered from the scene were purchased by Farook legally three or four years before, the two rifles were purchased by a possible former roommate three or four years before however, they believe he had nothing to do with the incident. Investigators also found in the conference room of Inland Regional three explosive devices packed with black powder and rigged to remote control cars. The couple planned to use the remote control cars to detonate the explosives from a distance however didn’t work and the remotes were found in the SUV they were driving. The latest question they are trying to answer is how he got the money to get all the supplies. They discovered a loan provider from WebBank weeks before the attack which he gave half to his mother and used the other on supplies. In response to this attack there has been a lot of pressure on Muslims to apologize for the event, however they have raised more than $100,000 to give to the families of the deceased to help for their funeral costs. Investigators are still investigating the case and more

Two weeks ago, Mr. Knight was contacted by law enforcement with suspicions that Will stole someone’s gun and sold it. According to the reporter, the child’s father made contact with him to tell him he’d been evicted from his home and did not know where Will was. The reporter stated Mr. Knight is a truck driver and has been living in his truck; Will was left with his grandmother after they were evicted. Ms. Jordan and Will got into an argument and the child ran away from her home and the family has not been able to find the child before 08/06/15. Per the reporter, the child was found at school; it’s unknown who registered the child. Mr. Knight stated on 08/06/15, he picked the child up from school to question him about the stolen gun. The reporter

An example of this was the Haymarket bombing towards the Chicago police during the pace of events. The bombing’s hurt workers’ rights and limited the union use of mass strikes. The rally began peacefully in the evening of May 4. Spies, Albert Parson and Samuel Fielden spoke to the crowd which was estimated to be about 3000 persons. A home-made bomb with a brittle metal casing filled with dynamite and ignited by a fuse, was thrown into the path of the advancing police. Its fuse briefly sputtered, then the bomb exploded, killing policeman Mathias J. Degan with flying metal fragments and mortally wounding six other officers. The police assumed that an anarchist had thrown the bomb as part of a planned conspiracy; their problem was how to prove

On July 12 in 2016, one of the worst mass shootings in modern United States history took place. The Pulse Nightclub located in Orlando, Florida, was filled with more than 300 people on the night of the incident (BBC, 2016). When the gunman, Omar Mateen, opened fire, he killed 49 clubgoers and injured dozens. The motive of this terrible act of violence was not clear until police found Jihadist propaganda on Mateen’s electronic devices. Officials found out that the gunman acted alone. According to family and friends of Mateen, he was very unstable. His wife, who he

Around 11am Wednesday morning Madden, a dispatch supervisor was on his way to lunch when dispatchers were frantically requesting units to head to the Inland Regional Center where two armed people identified as Syed Rizwan Farook and his wife Tashfeen Malik walked into a holiday party with semiautomatic rifles and pistols, spraying the crowd with scores of bullets. Police still are unsure of the shooters’ motive, but terrorism was likely apart of the killers’ plan. About 80 people were in attendance to this party, most of them were county officials. Late Thursday evening the coroner revealed the names of the people

Terrorism, a word most people fear, but so often misinterpret. The textbook definition of terrorism is “the unlawful use of violence and intimidation, especially against civilians, in the pursuit of political aims”. But how does that compare to domestic terrorism? Domestic terrorism or “homegrown terrorism” can be defined as “the committing of terrorist acts in the perpetrator’s own country against their fellow citizens”. Throughout the years, America as a nation has experienced quite a few occurrences of both types. An early example of homegrown terrorism would be the Haymarket Affair which occurred May 4, 1886 where in Chicago’s Haymarket Square, labor protesters detonated a bomb during a rally. Chicago police then responded by firing

It is still undetermined if Al Qaeda was directly responsible to the Fort Hood Shooting. It is known that Hasan was in contact with Anwar al Awlaki, a known Al Qaeda supporter/member for months before the Fort Hood attack. The FBI Agents in San Diego had been investigating Awlaki, a former San Diego resident, for his possible connections to the 9/11 hijackers. During their investigation is when agents discovered the emails that Hasan had sent Awlaki (http://abcnews.go.com). The investigation into the shoot has not revealed any evidence that Hasan was directed by anyone to commit the shooting. It is believed that Hasan acted alone and that Awlaki or Al Qaeda had no direct involvement in the incident. Hasan is considered a lone wolf terrorists or a terrorist who commits acts of terrorism without being directed by anyone. After the Fort Hood attack Awlaki did comment on his web site by stating that Hasan was a hero and that every Muslim should do the

According to US Attorney Eileen Decker, “Presently, there is no clear evidence so as to suggest that Mr Marquez had any prior knowledge of the attack or participated in the same. However; his failure to warn the concerned authorities about the intent of Farook to engage in mass murder and destruction indeed had fatal consequences”. As per the criminal complaint, Mr Marquez was known to have called for emergency service hours and even related to the dispatcher that the attackers had “used

The attackers were Islamic terrorists from Saudi Arabia and several other Arab nations. Osama bin Laden’s al-Qaeda terrorist organization were allegedly acting the U.S. in retaliation for their support of Israel, their involvement in the Persian Gulf War and their military presence in the Middle East. Some of the terrorists lived in the United States for more than a year and had taken flying lessons at American flight schools. The others had snuck into the country in the months before September 11th and were considered the “muscle” in the operation. They smuggled box-cutters and knives through the loose security at three East Coast airports and boarded four different airliners bound for California, they chose these flights because they were filled with jet fuel for the long flight across the country. After takeoff, they raided the cockpit of the planes and took control, doing this turned the normal passenger jets into huge missiles.