Essay on United States Threat Analysis

Al Qaeda was founded in 1988 by the most wanted terrorist in America, Osama Bin Laden, to bring together Arabs who fought in Afghanistan against the Soviet Invasion. Al Qaeda works with allied Islamic extremist groups to take over regimes it deems "non-Islamic" and remove Westerners from Muslin countries. The organization first began with three members and now there are approximately 200 to 1,000 current members. Al-Qaeda began to construct and offer training camps and guesthouses to its recruits; while they also attempted to pull in U.S. citizens for financial, communication, and operation reasons for the benefit of Al-Qaeda and its other affiliations. By 1990 Al-Qaeda was providing military and intelligence training in various areas including Afghanistan, Pakistan, and the Sudan.

They are dangerous to some people that seem to be at the wrong place wrong time. They have some unique history. The future is just an as scary because of what they want to see happen. One of the big things that happen with them was during a routine stop in West Memphis, Ark by two police officers in 2010. Jerry Kane was stop with his 16 old sin Joseph. Jerry was doing speeches all across the country about sovereign citizen movement. A little bit after the stop the son stepped out of the car with an AK-47, opening firing on both officers and killing them both. A major manhunt was on looking for them both and it took about 2 hours to find them. When the police found them a second shootout accord with more officers getting injured but both father and son were killed during the shootout. Some other things the associations also commits are numerous fraud cases causing the people and gov’t lot money. There has been fraudulent insurance scheme. Selling state insurance and only paying out small claims. The company collects millions of dollars. Another one was selling phony diplomatic credentials telling the buyers that this document will give them full diplomatic immunity in U.S. They made from anywhere from $200 to $4000 per each one sold. Also been cases where police officers and F.B.I. agent switched sides and help commit fraud to join the sovereign citizens’ movement. This group has a website where you can learn about and read their point of view. Learn how to fight the government. How to become a family member to them or just donate to the cause. Have all types

A group seen by many as promoting terror and intimidating others. They use the power they have to make people feel less and for them to feel above the rest. But how, why and when did they start? Did the United States already know about them way before they even made their way up to power? Many questions are asked as to whom they really are. They

The creator of this group was Osama Bin Laden. The U.S. and Osama Bin Laden had different opinions on who had more power and a better religion (Cassidy Frieling). The main reason on why Al-Qaeda did this attack was because of disapproval of America’s relationship with Israel (Olivia Pelaez). The reason behind this is because Israel and the United States are the closest because the U.S. supports them with military and financial assistance (Kyrie Dozer). Also, they wanted America to be the same religion as them which is Islamic (Kyrie Dozer). To sum it up, the reason why Al-Qaeda attacked the U.S. was because our relationship with Israel and our different viewpoints of

If not for a tip from the Muslim community to the FBI, this group had the means to wage war on US soil. Because the group was willing to identify with the ideology put forth by middle eastern extremism they were able to gain the focus and direction need to realize their end result. In a statement by Dina Temple-Raston,counter terrorism correspondent for NPR "U.S. Counter terrorism officials have become adept at spotting terrorism suspects who travel overseas to get training or arrange large money transfers to support terrorist groups,". NPR’s Greg

The actions of this group highlight how far terroristic groups are willing to go to achieve their goals. It is estimated that hundreds of thousands of dollars was lost in sales and insurance claims with

If you ever hear someone talking about the biggest and most terrorizing threat group in the world, then they are most likely talking about Al Qaeda (The Base/Eir Shura). There are many beliefs that Al Qaeda has been around for centuries due to the views and origins of many threat groups before them. Going of known facts, during the Soviet war in Afghanistan on approximately August 11, 1988 is the date that Al Qaeda was founded by Osama Bin Laden (54 years old) and has been terrorizing many parts of the world ever since then. Al Qaeda was first used for the Arabs who believed that the Russians were the cause to a lot of issues having to do with the Islamic religious belief. “In order to comprehend the current ideology and objectives of

"In the early 1990s, Osama bin Laden's brother-in-law funneled money into Abu Sayyaf through a fake Islamic charity in the Philippines (Shay)." It means this group have had some sort of connection with international terrorist organization to train their members, collection financial resources, and coordinating attacks. At the beginning period, they turned to violence act to gain recognition, engaging in bombing, and kidnapping with special target of Christian and westerners. This terrorist group carried out first attack in 1991, killing two American evangelists with hand grenades on the southern island of Mindanao. After that they carried out many attacks, bombing, and kidnapping for ransom money.

Every day, terrorism is spreading to other countries and one of their main objectives is to take down the U.S. Groups of people in middle eastern countries

There are several terrorist groups throughout the world today. All the terrorist groups have one common goal and that is to rid the world of Americans and western influence from the Muslim world. There is one organization that has ties to most of all the terrorist groups in the world and is the most infamous group in the world today and that is the group called Al-Qaeda The word Al-Qaeda means “the base” in Muslim. As an international terrorist organization led by Osama bin Laden. The group seeks to rid Muslim countries of western influence and replace them with fundamentalist Islamic regimes. Al-Qaeda grew out of the of the ashes of the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan in 1988, after it helped expel the Soviet

They take drastic measures to put fear in their enemies. Since their creation in 1987 they have been responsible for at least 557 deaths1 with a strong chance of more that were not confirmed. They are best known for their car bombings on civilians but also they have committed suicide bombings, plane bombings, and other murders. Between April 6th and March 1994 they had 1 car bombing killing eight, and three suicide bombings killing a total 72 innocent civilians.2 Even as recent as 2000 they have killed 114 civilians in bombings.

Terrorism and the United States A cloud of anthrax spores looming in the sky of San Diego California

As a direct consequence of September 11, a number of substantial challenges lie ahead in the area of counter-terrorism..   The most prominent of these is the changing nature of the terrorism phenomenon.  In past years, when terrorism was largely the product of direct state sponsorship, policymakers were able to diminish prospects for the United States becoming a target using a combination of diplomatic and military instruments to deter potential state sponsors.  Today, however, many terrorist organizations and individuals act independently from former and present state sponsors, shifting to other sources of support, including the development of transnational networks.

By breaking down the two key words, security and defense, you find how each of these items are married together. Security and defense are to very similar words, one you are securing a given item and the other you are defending. So, wouldn’t you think that homeland defense and homeland security would be the same? You would, but they are not. Homeland defense is the of its self is the infrastructure used to defend us against any sort of external threat. Whereas Homeland Security is the strategy that is used with to combat these sort of things. It goes without saying that the primary mission of homeland security and defense, is to protect the citizens of the United States of America. Within the mission is the tasks, and each individual department has its own specific task. Now, with the specific task comes specific duties, responsibilities, and operations. From personal experience, most operations of within the homeland security/defense real are in some way, shape, or form joint operations. Now each individual knows their specific tasks, duty, and responsibility. Take for example the current situation in New York City and Elizabeth, New Jersey, you have on the ground investigating, the local law enforcement agencies, the ATF, the FBI, and Homeland Security agents. Each agency has their own job and their own input on what needs to be done while on scene. Here is simple breakdown of those task, the local law enforcement agents are first own the scene. They are going to

Coming on to the next segment which is tactics and targeting - what kinds of attacks have they perpetrated? Why did they select those tactics? Who do they target and why?