The Suicide Car And Truck Bombings

September 11th 2001 there was a surprise attack on the United States by terrorists. The terrorists allegedly hijacked four airplanes. One was meant for the White House, one was meant for the Pentagon and the other two were meant for the twin tower which fell and many lives were lost. However some say it was not terrorists and that it was the United States government and that the government set a bomb and that they had several motives to do this.

September 11,2001 nineteen al-Qaeda members hijack four jet airliners in the U.S. The al-Qaeda members crashed two airplanes into the twin towers of the World Trade Center in New York City, killing everyone on board and almost killing 3,000 people in the buildings. The U.S didn’t respond correctly because because president Bush declared a war on Afghanistan for the cause of the victims in the 9/11 attacks even though families didn’t want that to happen also to stop the terrorists for doing something like this again.

The Oklahoma City Bombing would be considered the worst terrorist attack on America prior to the 9/11 World Trade Center attack. Just outside of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building, on April 19th, 1995 a truck exploded, killing 168 people. 19 of those 168 being children. The explosion caused damage to 300 surrounding buildings. Oklahoma City was going through a tragedy and needed guidance from a leader.

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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.

The domestic pre-9/11 terrorist event I have chosen is the Empire State Building shooting. This shooting occurred on February 23, 1997, the gunman was Ali Hassan Abu Kamal a Palestine descent teacher. He shot seven people and then himself, this was on the observation deck of the Empire State Building. In this attack, two people died, including the gunman. A note was found on his body identifying that his motive were related to the anger he had against the world powers for the mistreatment of Palestinians. Ali wanted to punish the United States for supporting Israel.

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 event that I chose was the 1995 bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in downtown Oklahoma City by an ex-Army soldier and security guard named Timothy McVeigh. He parked a rented Ryder truck in front of the building loaded with a powerful bomb made out of a deadly cocktail of agricultural fertilizer, diesel fuel, and other chemicals. The bomb went off at 9:02 a.m. When the smoke cleared the area looked like a war zone. Half of the building had been reduced to rubble, surrounding cars were incinerated and nearby buildings were damaged or destroyed. The death toll was very devastating: 168 people, including 19 children were killed that day not to mention several hundred more injured in the blast. The bombing was considered the worst act of homegrown terrorism in the nation’s history (fbi.gov).

September 11, 2001 the U.S. was attacked by four crashing planes caused by terrorist. Two of the planes crashed into The World Trade Center at New York City and killed everyone on the plane, 3,000 deaths when the tower collapsed. One to the Pentagon a administrative building at Washington D.C. The last plane crashed into a field at Pennsylvania while passengers and crew members tried to take back control. After that George W. Bush responded to 9/11 and declared “War On Terror”. But I thought the U.S. response to 9/11 was not really appropriate by the way.

When an american thinks about a terrorist attack, it is likely that 9/11 will come to mind. On september 11, 2001, one of the most historical events occured. The twin towers located, in New York City, were crashed into by civilian planes, taken over by a terrorist group. This deadly attack killed 2,996 civilians, including 19 terrorists, and wounded more than 6,000 people.

The September 11 attacks are the worst terrorist attacks ever committed on U.S. soil. On September 11 there were four passenger planes that were hijacked by terrorist. The first plane to be hijacked that morning was American airlines flight 11. This passenger plane was crashed into the north tower of the world trade center. About fifteen minutes later a second plane appeared in the skies it was united airlines flight 175 and it crashed into the south tower of the world trade center. Forty five minutes later the third hijacked flight American airlines flight 77 was crashed into the pentagon. The fourth and last hijacked plane was united airlines flight 98 this plane was crashed in a field in Pennsylvania after the passengers tried to stop the terrorist.

Although, not all people were happy with his workings and this resulted to him getting assassinated. Because of him, Hezbollah went from a common issue terrorist group that does suicide bombing to a technologically advanced paramilitary organization

The ISIS bombing that took place in Brussels Airport in Belgium, because it took the lives of American citizens.

The capital of Logar province in eastern Afghanistan, a suicide bombing attacks at least six people were killed, including three policemen. Five policemen were injured in the attack and agencies said suicide truck was packed with explosives. The explosion was so strong that it almost shattered buildings mirrors located 500 meters. The Taliban accepted responsibility for the suicide blast. Tank filled with explosives blew up at a time when it Quick Response Force (police) were stopped at the gate of the compound." This is the first major attack after Mullah Mohammad Omar in Afghanistan confirmed reports of casualties and the deployment of new Taliban chief Mullah Akhtar

The article that caught my attention was the suicide bombing in Turkey that turned a wedding into a mourning. An Islamic State suicide bomber possibly as young as 12 attacked a Kurdish wedding party in southeastern Turkey. At least 51 people died and 69 were hurt. The bombing late Saturday in Gaziantep, near Turkey’s border with Syria, was the deadliest attack in Turkey this year. Prime Minister Binali Yildirim condemned the bombing, which he said turned "a wedding party into a place of mourning" and he vowed to prevail over the "devilish" attacks. The U.S. State Department issued a statement condemning the "heinous attack" and extended condolences to the wounded and the loved ones of the victims. Turkey also blamed Islamic State terrorists,