The Terrorist Attack Bombers Attacks On The 21st Century

In recent news, there has been a string of attacks all over the world; each attack has been related to terrorism. A passenger boarded a train traveling from Amsterdam to Paris, armed with a box cutter, a pistol and an AK-47 with intent to harm innocent people. Four passengers on the train quickly subdued the terrorist before anyone could be harmed. In November, Paris, France was struck with terror when three armed men set off a string of attacks throughout the city, to include a bomb and active shootings. This attack left nearly 127 people killed and wounded. Most recently, in San Bernadino, California a man and woman left from a holiday party and returned with assault rifles. The officials attributed their act to terrorism, where the

Terrorism continues devastatingly in the United States to this day and has increasingly become a more major concern. Starting in 1886 with the Haymarket Affair, a bombing that killed 12 in Chicago, there has been an exponential increase in the amount of terrorist attacks since then. The 1993 bombing of the World Trade Center was a preface to many other terrorist attacks to follow, for example, 9/11. The destruction of this attack gave the United States a reason to fear more massacres and allowed us to increase security and protection of our nation. The biggest terrorist attack in the United States to this day is the 9/11 plane attack on the World Trade Center Towers that killed close to three thousand innocent citizens. What many people do

On January 7th, 2015, two gunmen attacked the headquarters of the satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo, killing twelve people and injuring twelve others before escaping. On 9 January, police tracked

Modern terrorism, as deduced from this literature, is acts to violence strategically used by secular groups spanning international borders with the aim of achieving a desired outcome. Further, it can be seen as organized activity whose genesis can be traced back to the 1880’s. From then to now there are identifiable traits and patterns observed from different (terrorist) groups which have allowed for the conceptualization of the term modern terrorism. This concept therefore, can be best explained in the context of being a wave or having a life cycle. That means it is a cycle of activity demarked by phases from inception and expands along the way then eventually it declines. The world, thus far, has experienced four waves of modern

On the morning of September 11th, 2001, the United States of America was tragically attacked by members of al- Qaeda. Nineteen radicals associated with the Islamic extremist group hijacked four airliners and carried out suicide attacks against planned targets in the United States. Of the

When the Oklahoma City bombing happened, it remained the largest terrorist attack to happen on American soil until the attack on 9/11. On April 19, 1995, a rental truck was loaded up with 4,800 pounds of explosives and detonated just after 9:00 am (Krung, Nixon, & Vincent, 1996). The attack was focused on the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in downtown Oklahoma City. This tragic event killed one hundred sixty-eight people and also injured hundreds more (Nacos, 2016). A dare care facility was also located within the building and nineteen children perished in the attack (Nacos, 2016). There were hundreds more victims which were treated by area hospitals and private doctor offices. This explosion was so large, a shockwave was sent across the city which damaged or destroyed an additional 300 buildings in the immediate area (History, 2009). Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nicholas were the two men responsible for this devastating attack.

Another terrorist attack that was recently was the Manhattan attack. On October 31,2017 a 29-year-old male named Sayfullo Habibullaevic Saipov rented a pick-up truck and drove down a bicycle path near the World Trade Center. He killed 8 people and injured 11 others. This attack was named the deadliest attack since 9/11 back in 2001. The authority found a note near the truck saying the attack was made for ISIS. He was from Uzbekistan in Central Asia but had been living in the US since 2010. Could you imagine just riding your bicycle on a path or even walking it and the next thing you see is a truck running people over. I know I could not imagine it even thinking about it is a scary thought.

A well-known sense of community for the United States is the annual Boston Marathon. April 15th 2013 the city of Boston prepared for its race, but there was no way that it could have prepared for the tragic events which would rattle the entire country. Two pressure cooker bombs were detonated at 2:49 pm near the finish line amongst hundreds of spectators and athletes. The attacks resulted in six losses of life and over two hundred fifty injuries. Many questioned who the evil mastermind was behind this harrowing attack since it was the first terror attack on US soil since nine eleven. The two responsible for the slaughter are Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev. The term evil is often used to describe one who commits an outrageous and morally corrupt act,

That attack, the November Paris attacks, dominated the news for weeks, and prompted incredible shows of solidarity from countries around the world. The countries that do suffer the most damage from terrorism are predominantly Muslim, and those attacks mostly slip under the radar of the western media. This means that while we in the west stoke our fears of “radical Islamic terrorists,” it is Muslims who bear the brunt of terrorist attacks.“The four predominantly Muslim countries that endured the most fatal terrorist attack were Iraq, Pakistan, Nigeria and Afghanistan” (Institute for Economics & Peace

An act of terrorism on Sept. 11, 2001 can be described as a series of coordinated suicide terrorist attacks that occurred in the United States of America. Officially, the responsibility for these attacks lies with the terrorist organization Al-Qaeda. That morning nineteen terrorists, allegedly related to al-Qaida, divided into four groups, captured four scheduled passenger airliners. Each group had at least one member, past the initial flight training, as stated in 9/11 Attacks.

On Friday, September 15th, Britain was bombed by the terrorist group, ISIS in an underground train in London. As a result, 29 people were sent to the hospital for their injuries, but luckily the injuries were not life threatening. Eight of those 29 people have been discharged.

A report that was released by the United States Justice Department on February 12, 2016, showed that a “Florida man pleads guilty to a hate crime for threatening to firebomb two mosques and shoot worshippers.” The 43-year-old man by the name Martin Alan Schnitzler was arrested by the FBI on November 17, 2015, after he made numerous threats to shoot children in the head and firebomb a mosque in Petersburg, Florida. In his two recorded messages, Schnitzler said that he is watching the news report that covered the terrorist attacks in Paris. In these attacks, 130 lives were lost while more than 300 were seriously injured. Those responsible for these series of attacks were members of a terrorist group known as the Islamic States of Iraq and Levant (ISIL). Since ISIL members claim to be practicing Muslims and also fighting for the cause of Islam (Jihad), Schnitzler showed the same enmity he has for the ISIL terrorists to his non-violence Muslim neighbors. For this reason, he wanted to avenge the death of the victims of the Paris attacks by firebombing and shooting his Muslim neighbors’ two-year-old children in the head.

Terrorist attacks are a consistent global occurrence.The 2005 London underground bombings was an attack which caused largest mass fatality occurrence in the UK since World War 2. As a result the comfort and use of public transport in the UK was greatly impacted. Research into the fatalities and physical repercussions of tragedies are amplified globally. For instance it is considered factual that the

Many American citizens say that terrorism started in the United States with the home grown incident known as the Oklahoma City bombing. This terrorist bomb was an attack on the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in down town Oklahoma City. The blast from the bomb destroyed and damaged 324 buildings within a 16 block radius. This attack killed 168 people and injured more then 680 others. Timothy McVeigh and coconspirator Terry Nichols were motivated by their hatred for the federal government.Another example of terrorist attacks on the United States is February 26, 1993, A bomb exploded in the basement garage of the World Trade Center, killing six and injuring at least 1,040 others. In 1995, Islamist Sheik Omar Abdel Rahman and nine others were convicted of conspiracy charges. The government also

Terrorism is an undoubtedly real concept that has left its mark on the 21st century in quite a profound way. That being said the topic of terrorism is both one of reality and conspiracy, not to debate the merits of its authenticity but rather the way in which governments respond to such unforeseen attacks. Many theorists have argued that the so-called war on terrorism is simply a political ruse; a political tactic used by western democracies to justify their engagement in ulterior motives abroad. When the Bush administration declared a universal “war on terrorism” after the events of 9/11 occurred, the entire approach of the western world towards the subject altered. Harsher laws, stricter security regulations and calculated conventional warfare tactics became priority. To engage in the discussion of whether the war on terror is in fact winnable is an extremely subjective argument, since it cannot be eradicated in a purely conventional sense, as small victories ensue but the overall war rages on. Terrorism is an unfortunate and undeniable reality that Canada has come to comprehend, the west is no longer a safe haven isolated from the reaches of radicalism. Canada not being a nation completely immune from the influences of terrorism has had to respond to threats by implementing additional criminal laws and policies to ensure the preservation of peace and security both domestically and abroad. Subsequently, with Canada being a nation built on the rule of law it is extremely