Almost immediately after the september ll attacks, suspicion centered on Osama bin Laden as the person responsible. As the leader of aterrorist organization known as al-Qaeda Arabic for "the camp, bin Laden had long advocated violence against the United States and its citizens. To kill Americans and their allies- civilians and military is an individual duty for every Muslim who can do it in any country in which it is possible to do it, Bin Laden declared in a published communique in 1998. As the heir to much of his father's fortune. Bin laden had access to hundreds of millions of dollars, and he had used the money to build an international terrorist network with cells in several countries
Almost immediately after the September 11 attacks, suspicion centered on Osama bin Laden as the person responsible. As the leader of a terrorist organization known as al-Qaeda, Arabic for “the camp,” bin Laden had long advocated violence against the United States and its citizens. “To kill Americans and their allies – civilians and military – is an individual duty for every Muslim who can do it in any country in which it is possible to do it,” Bin Laden declared in a published communiquéin 1998. As the heir to much of his father’s fortune, Bin Laden had access to hundreds of millions of dollars, and he had used the money to build an international terrorist network with cells in several countries
Evidence had linked al-Qaeda operatives to four previous attacks on U.S. interests: a bomb in an underground World Trade Center parking garage in 1993(the first attempt to destroy the twin towers) that killed 6 people; an attack on a U.S. military housing complex in Saudi arabia in 1996 in which 19 U.S. soldiers were killed; the bombings of U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania in 1998 that killed more than 200 people and a suicide attack on the USs Cole, a Navy destroyer, off the coast of Yemen in the fall of 2000. that killed 17Us sailors Federal, local, and state government agencies in the united States found themselves suddenly redefining national security to include the defense of U.s. soil against foreign attack a new and unfamilar idea
Evidence had linked al-Qaeda operatives to four previous attacks on U.S. interests: a bomb in an underground World Trade Center parking garage in 1993 (the first attempt to destroy the twin towers) that killed 6 people; an attack on a U.S. military housing complex in Saudi Arabia in 1996 in which 19 U.S. soldiers were killed; the bombings of U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania in 1998 that killed more than 200 people; and a suicide attack on the USS Cole, a Navy destroyer, off the coast of Yemen in the fall of 2000, that killed 17 U.S. sailors. Federal, local, and state government agencies in the United States found themselves suddenly redefining national security to include the defense of U.S. soil against foreign attack, a new and unfamiliar idea
Cyberterrorist In a speech before a joint session of congress nine days after the September ll attacks, U.s. president George w. bush said he was creating a new cabinet-level position, the office of Homeland Security. The new department was to coordinate the work of more than 40 federal agencies, including the Department of Defense and the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), in order to prevent and respond to future terrorist attacks on U.S. territory. In the same speech to Congress, Bush suggested that the top priority of his administration would be a campaign to end terrorism. he affirmed that all the evidence collected at that point indicated that al-Qaeda was the organization responsible for the September ll attacks, and he promised that a U.s.-led war on terrorism would begin with a drive to eliminate that organization. But in a key expansion of U.s. antiterrorism efforts, Bust said the united states would not only target the terrorist organizations themselves, but also those governments that support them
In a speech before a joint session of congress nine days after the September 11 attacks, U.S. president George W. Bush said he was creating a new cabinet-level position, the Office of Homeland Security. The new department was to coordinate the work of more than 40 federal agencies, including the Department of Defense and the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), in order to prevent and respond to future terrorist attacks on U.S. territory. In the same speech to Congress, Bush suggested that the top priority of his administration would be a campaign to end terrorism. He affirmed that all the evidence collected at that point indicated that al-Qaeda was the organization responsible for the September 11 attacks, and he promised that a U.S.-led war on terrorism would begin with a drive to eliminate that organization. But in a key expansion of U.S. antiterrorism efforts, Bust said the United States would not only target the terrorist organizations themselves, but also those governments that support them