Transnational Threats

Imagine a cloud of black smoke covering the sky of your hometown or having to make the choice if you should jump to your death out of a skyscraper because if you didn’t, then you would burn alive. Imagine calling your husband while on a plane while knowing that will be the last time you tell him you love him. Imagine the fear you would feel not knowing if your loved ones survived a terrorist attack. This nightmare on an imaginations became a terrible reality for New Yorkers and American citizens. On September 11, 2001, four aircrafts were hijacked by Al-Qaeda terrorists. Two of the aircrafts flew into the twin towers in New York City, one aircraft crashed into the Pentagon, and the fourth aircraft crashed into a field in Pennsylvania. These terrorist attacks that took place on September 11 resulted in many casualties, an increase in airport security, and the United States invading Afghanistan and the Middle East.

Terrorism has become a main threat to the peace and development in the U.S and the world as a whole. Past experiences of terrorism such as the September 11th attack in the United States has a created the need to have a functioning counters intelligence which will effectively deal with terrorism. However, for the counter intelligence to be effective, other basic functions have to be played out. The basic functions are collection and analysis. The other function is the execution of covert actions and the major role is the counterintelligence. The Intelligence agents combine all roles and place them under the umbrella of intelligence.

9/11 changed how we all viewed the world. The safety that was once felt is no longer taken for granted. That day changed how we think, how we act, and may even cause us to pause before going out. Since that day millions have been spent on ensuring such an event does not happen again. In addition, an entire new department of the federal government was created to watch and centralize security in the United States, the Department of Homeland Security. All done in the name of security. While an event of the magnitude of 9/11 has not repeated itself, others similar to it have. The attacks at Fort Hood, Boston Marathon, and recent school shootings remind us all that there are still individuals out there seeking to cause harm. This means that

Post 9/11 brought revisions to the way we as a nation faced our everyday lives and how we approached society. Succeeding the panic, there were many changes in the security of our country and the mindsets of our community towards what we believe to be a threat. These alterations are allowing for the people of America to live safer and more well-minded lives, but also

Today the war on terrorism rages on in several different ways, however it has never been that. In reality America has never been “unsafe” we don't live in a war and death ridden country, invaded by some foreign troops who don’t understand our ways and views on life, and whom probably have ulterior motives. Our war on Terrorism

Security and surveillance on the internet and phones weren’t the only things that changed after 9/11. Security in airports changed, tourism changed, immigration, and most of all trust in the government changed. Now before 9/11, airports were something that people could walk through, people could walk their loved ones to their plane and watch them take off and return back to their car. Today, there is security and loved ones have to have a great reason to walk to the plane. I think that security in the airport is a great thing, but if you think about security in DIA is far into the process of checking in and getting to a plane. Someone can check in, eat food, shop, and hang out, until they even reach security. That gives people a huge chance to walk in with a gun or bomb or anything and scout out something. So really, security is only keeping planes safe. Which is only half of the process, if airports really want protection, they will think of something of how to put security at the beginning of the process rather than in the middle of it. At the end of the day though, airports have has a lot of success in their security and have had minimal attacks since

From the tragic events on September 11, 2001, I would say that we are more secure within our country. Millions of people were affected by this event from physical mental health and financial problems. Different types of injuries were created on that day. We will never forget about what happened to our nation. Because of 9/11, many effects have came to us. The cause of this day has many effects such as deaths, war, and issues in

It is obvious that the attacks of 9/11 forever changed the perception of Terrorism in the United States (Bullock, J. A., Haddow, G. D., & Coppola, D. P. 2013). It will be forever embedded in the minds of millions of Americans that watched on live TV United Airlines Flight 175 crash into the south tower of the World Trade Center going approximately 590 miles per hour. The total fatality rate of that attack was 2,974. This was by far the largest terrorist attack on United States soil ever. This pales in comparison to deaths from natural disasters such as the tropical cyclone in Galveston, TX in 1900 that claimed anywhere from 6,000 to 12,000 people (History.com Staff 2009). Your odds of dying in a terrorist attack are 1 on 25 million compared

Seventeen years ago the United States wasn’t officially engaged in any wars, their surveillance state was a fraction of its current size, and you didn't have to take off your shoes to go through airport security (Green). All of that changed because of one terrible terrorist attack; 9/11. The terrorist attack happened on September 11, 2001, when Islamist extremists hijacked four planes and flew them directly into; the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center in New York, the Pentagon in Washington DC, and a field in Pennsylvania which was believed to be targeting the White House (What Happened). This became the largest terrorist attack on the United States ever. Ten years later, the United States still has

Over the past 14 years we have grown as a nation, we have become stronger and more prepared since the dark day that was September 11th 2001. On that date was the most memorable and talked about events in modern day society. It’s a day that will go down in infamy and can never be absolved from our memories. The fact of the matter is that we were never truly prepared for something so heinous and evil, we never really expected anything like that could ever occur, were we ever wrong. We have been expecting the worst to happen ever since, security has been amped up and strengthened to make sure nothing like that can ever happen again.

We’ve had other terror attacks after 9/11 such as the Boston Marathon bombings and the San Bernardino terror attacks, but 9/11 was the last major terror attack. 9/11 was major, we weren't prepared for something so major like that. If you think about whether or not we are prepared for something on that level today I think we would be capable of foiling that attack before it even happened. Our airport security is very strict nowadays. We are well equipped for an attack like that today. Did we actually move on too fast? I don't believe we did. Following the attacks, many changes had to be enforced. these were major changes and they took a few years to sync in. One major change was with less people traveling and even leaving their houses (especially in major cities). Traveling became more of a hassle due to increased security and more restrictions as to what you could bring, and x-ray body scanners. Tourism experienced a rapid decline after 9/11, but more then tourism and traveling was just being able to leave your home and go to work while still feeling safe. The Department of Homeland Security became the major organization after 9/11. The Department of

The 9/11 Attacks shook the nation, If you weren’t old enough to remember that fatal day in 2001 you have heard about it. But How far has our safety as US citizens gone? How been effected since then? Are we truly safer? In the light of all the recent attacks I am beginning to doubt we are.

This September will mark the 13 year anniversary of the modern day Pearl Harbor also known as 9/11. In these thirteen years our world has changed immensely. Our government went from being the proponents of democracy to seldom acting like tyrannical warlords. The Patriot Act suspended due process for anyone deemed an “enemy combatant”. Defense contractors were given the biggest contract in American history. As a nation, we went to two different wars and almost destroyed the world’s economy. All of this occurred to ensure our safety as citizens of this once great nation. But are we truly safer from terrorist attacks today than we were in 2001? There was a poll that appeared around the five year anniversary of 9/11 that

This paper talks about the Ansar al-dine terrorist organization, giving a brief background on how the group was formed, the leader of the terrorist organization, the tactics, techniques & procedures and the goals & objectives. The primary area that Ansar al- dine conducts their operations is in Mali, Africa. The primary focus of this paper is how Ansar Al-Dine functions within Mali. Throughout the paper we will identify the condition and effects of the Political, Military, Economics, Social, Information, Infrastructure, Physical Environment, and Time (PMESII-PT) variables in Mali. The paper will also explain Human Intelligence (HUMINT) response to the effects of each category of (PMESII-PT), in order to overcome issues and successfully conduct HUMINT Intelligence Operations in Mali. At the end of the paper an overall summery explaining if human intelligence operations will work in Mali, where Ansar Al dine operates. A reference page is also provided for further research.

Counterintelligence (CI) involves actions aimed at protecting the United States against foreign intelligence operations and espionage from penetration and disruption by hostile nations or their intelligence services (Lowenthal, 2014). Three main components of Counterintelligence include collection, defensive and offensive. The collection is the ability to gather intelligence information about rivalry capabilities against own nation; defensive part of CI involves measures to prevent and thwart other nations ' attempts to penetrate into own nation 's intelligence system; while an offensive aspect deal with running double agents to penetrate, manipulate, exploit, and control targeted adversaries. CI is said to be the most essential aspect of the intelligence disciplines, in the sense that it helps in collecting vast quantities of secret information and produce an excellent analysis of intelligence, although, ineffective counterintelligence measures may diminish confidence in the final results (Van Cleave, 2013).