Terrorist Threats in Historical Perspective, assignment help

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Prepare a 500-750 word essay in which you:

  • Investigate four attacks (occurring on US soil or foreign soil) and provide a short paper delineating:
  • The methods and motives associated with each of your selected attacks.
  • Whether or not the attack could or should have been considered an act of terror along with the basis for the application of your assessment (Department of State definition, Central Intelligence Agency definition, etc.
  • The stated or assessed intent of the attack.
  • How motive may have differentiated from the underlying intent and whether intent or motive is a better determinant of the nature of an act as one or terror.

Your work should be a minimum of 500 words and should utilize APA formatting. Also intext citation APA

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Running head: TERRORIST THREATS IN HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE

Terrorist Threats in Historical Perspective
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TERRORIST THREATS IN HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE

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Terrorist Threats in Historical Perspective
The four attacks that are discussed in this paper are the September 11th attacks on the
world trade center, the Orlando night club shooting of 2016, the bombing of an American
embassy in Kenya in August 1998, and Brussels coordinated bombings. The method used to
conduct the 9/11 attacks was a passenger plane ramming into the target buildings, causing
massive damage, and eventual collapse (9/11 Commission, 2004). The motive was to send a
statement that Osama bin Laden had declared a holy war on the United States of America. The
al-Qaida leader wanted to punish the west for its oppression, or support for the oppression of
Muslims. The Orlando club shooting was carried out by a single armed individual, Omar
Mateen, who opened f...


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