Terrorism Essay Research Paper Lee BlumenfeldAnti TerrorismEver

Terrorism Essay, Research Paper

Lee Blumenfeld

Anti Terrorism

Ever since the United States has emerged as superior to fellow countries,

oppositions have found it necessary to test the ability and the integrity of our national

security. In the past, organizations and disgruntled countries have attempted to test the

quality of our nation s vast resources by breaking treaties and subsequently starting

conflicts. The NSA (National Service Agency) has found it imperative to acquire

information for the use of finding and hopefully preventing these conflicts from arising.

Terrorism has become a very serious issue for our nation. Our country has developed in-

depth organizations, agencies and administrations that handle certain aspects of activities

that occur outside of the country. However, recent incidents are proving that the FBI,

CIA, NSA, US MARSHALS, etc. are either not enough or are functioning under par.

The first and most recent incident of the lack of ability to control or curb terrorism

is the bombing on the USS Cole of the coast of Yemen. The joint US-Yemeni

investigation concluded that it was an apparent suicide bombing of the USS Cole, which

killed 11 sailors and wounded 39, leaving six sailors remaining missing and, or presumed

dead. The blast blew a 40-by-40-foot hole in the midsection of the ship at the waterline.

The detonation destroyed an engine room and nearby mess area where sailors were eating

lunch. The FBI crime laboratory further discovered that bomb-making material and that it

was a “quantum leap” forward in the investigation. Yemen’s President Ali Abdullah Saleh

further contributed to the labeling of this as a terrorist act by saying he had “important

evidence” showing that the explosion was a criminal act. The blowing up of one of the

world’s most sophisticated guided missile destroyers not only shows a sign of weakness

but a lack of prepared anti-terrorism tactics. For the bombers to know what time food

was being served and where to attack the boat is an alarming factor. To get such

explosives strong enough and to move them along side of a military ship requires massive

planning and a big well funded, organized, and large operation. Something that should be

big enough to find by the current major anti-terrorism organizations. In fact, witnesses

described two men aboard the boat with explosives in it standing to attention just before it

exploded, another point that they were feasibly detectable. “Speculation by the media and

others who point to Osama bin Laden as having a hand in perpetrating the terrorist attack

in the port of Aden,” another failure by the US forces to try and stop this well known

terrorist.

Another major event signaling the ineffectiveness of the anti-terrorism groups was

the domestic terrorism on April 1999, in a suburban high school in Jefferson

County, Colorado. Columbine High School found itself under attack less than fifteen

minutes into the first-lunch period on that Tuesday. Two student gunmen killed 13 and

wounded 21 before they turned the guns on themselves – the most devastating school

shooting in US history. The two student gunmen’s plans for attacking the school,

recovered by investigators after the tragedy had taken place, evolved over one year’s time,

thus giving agencies plenty of time to prevent this tragedy. In those plans, Klebold and

Harris outlined a mission to kill as many students and faculty as possible. They would set

off destructive bombs inside the school and then shoot any survivors trying to run out.

Bombs inside their cars would explode later, killing law enforcement, fire or medical

personnel responding to the scene. Such extensive planning should not go unnoticed and

therefore should have been picked up by local anti-terrorism departments. While there was

no specific reference made in their writings to this date being an important anniversary, it

must be noted that April 19, 1999, a day before the mission, it in fact was the fourth

anniversary of the bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in

Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, another instance of failure by these organizations to control

the situation. Furthermore, it was the sixth anniversary of the Branch Davidian

standoff in Waco, Texas. The main slogan coming from this terrible tragedy was the

slogan of “We can’t solve those problems by using the same kind of thinking we used at

the time we created them.” A clear implication that suggests the terrorists tactics have

improved and need a new “guide book” in dealing with this kind of, now being mocked

and copied epidemic as kid see this as a joke. But it is not a prank. Not when two hate-

filled students, heavily armed with firearms and bombs, chose April 20, 1999, as the day to

attack and kill students and faculty at their school.

The third instance which arguably can be drawn as a parallel reason for children,

terrorists, and other o

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