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Risk Assessment
Terrorists and acts of terrorism have become unpredictable. Today terrorism has adopted a new dimension. This makes it difficult to differentiate between the preparation for a terrorist induced disaster and a natural/technological disaster. Over the years the United States has encountered several terrorist attacks in the eighties hijackings of planes was prevalent and in the nineties and the new millennium attacks on buildings such as the World Trade Center in New York and U.S. foreign embassies such as one in Nairobi, Kenya and Darussalam, Tanzania. The interesting issue is that it is not easy to predict their next mode of attack; many anti-terrorist experts are suspicious about the involvement of chemical or biological weapons (Heng, 2006 ).
In addition, terrorist are no longer bear the profile of the traditional enemy, some of them are Americans and not easy to identify as terrorist, Timothy McVeigh, the Oklahoma bomber, was born April 23, 1968 in Pendleton, New York, and grew up in that rural community near Buffalo, Niagara and Canada (Cable News Network, 2012). Therefore, evaluation...
This statement is true even after the 9/11. Prior to 9/11, there was an attempt by a group of terrorist in 1993 to bomb the twin towers. Mohammed A. Salameh using a yellow Ford Econoline van, planted explosives at the base of the buildings. This suspect was tied to an Islamic Fundamentalist Sect. According to Adam (2001) the attack was planned by Guzie - Hadas, an Islamist, who was had been for a long time a Mossad operative. This incident should have been the last if the United States was prepared for further attacks. One can argue that
9/11 was different from the attacks in 1993 and the answer is yes, and this is the reason why the United States has challenges fighting terrorism, the terrorists are continuously adopting newer tactics and technology that make…
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ABC News. (2012, May 15). Bush Warned of Hijackings Before 9-11. Retrieved October 23, 2012, from http://abcnews.go.com.
Adam, J.S. (2001, October 5 ). Troubling Questions in Troubling Times: A critical look at the history of attacks on the World Trade Center. Retrieved October 23, 2012, from http://www.serendipity.li/wot/adam.htm
Cable News Network. (2012). Timothy McVeigh. Retrieved October 23, 2012, from http://articles.cnn.com/2001-03-29/us/profile.mcveigh_1_timothy-mcveigh-oklahoma-city-bombing-religion-basic-training-fort-bragg?_s=PM:U.S.
Heng, Y.-K. (2006 ). The 'Transformation of War' Debate: Through the Looking Glass of Ulrich Beck's World Risk Society . International Relations, 69-91 .
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