... reflect new information indicating that it was a deliberate and organized terrorist attack carried out by extremists," said Shawn Turner, spokesman for James Clapper's office, who is the Director of National Intelligence. However, they cannot name a certain group of people who are responsible, although they believe that they were "linked to groups affiliated with, or sympathetic to al-Qaeda" (Hosenball). ... to the public (Hosenball). Matthew Olsen, Director of the US National Counterterrorism Centre, released a statement following the attack, saying, "What we don't have at this point i...

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... was only after the World Trade Centre attack in 1993 that they realized the magnitude of foreign terrorism (Copeland, 2007). The US was using the same old tactics to solve terrorism and little was done to reform security agencies. There was a systemic setback to intelligence gathering and sharing among government agencies. Pentagon could not effectively share information with the CIA ... insufficient allocation of financial resources for terrorism preparedness. Terror threats at home were not anticipated hence sufficient efforts were not put in place. Resources allocated for defence and ...

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... not abused. Most of these checks and balances were put into place after previous misuse of surveillance powers by these agencies, including the revelation in 1974 that the FBI and foreign intelligence agencies had spied on over 10,000 U.S. citizens, including Martin Luther King. The bill is extremely long and makes changes, some large and some small, to over 15 different statutes ... ...

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... in Bin Laden's political evolution. Al-Zawahiri was quite active in planning and carrying out terrorist attacks. He was suspected of help plan and organize the 1997 massacre of 67 foreign tourists in the Egyptian town of Luxor and was indicted in connection with the bombing of U.S. embassies in Tanzania and Kenya. In 1998, Ayman became one of the five Islamic ... al-Zawahiri had been trapped during the attack. It was later determined that Ayman had either managed to escape imprisonment or had never been trapped. Aided by Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence, the U.S. military had laun...

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... to wait for the war to end. Americans should remain skeptical about the government. On September 11, The United States government failed in its primary task: To protect citizens against foreign attack. Americans need to understand that patriotism is not the same as blind faith in government. Americans can respect their government, but they should remain wary of the potential abuses ... increase of terrorist attacks and the government's assault on our basic freedoms through the U.S. Patriot Bill and other legislation. Patriotism needs to be taken with a dose of common sense and intellige...

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... General Kofi Annan have been made in Britain. Clare Short, the former British government minister was accused of leaking this confidential information to the press . Impact of the issue The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, created in 1978, allows the US government to search through private documents and personal information merely by indicating that the search might be linked to a matter that concerns ... ...

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... led to the major stand-offs between the two superpowers, the United States and the Soviet Union. The United States favored Osama bin Ladin at that time, and America's Central Intelligence Agency put $500 million-per-year campaign to arm and train bin Ladin's Mujahedin guerrillas to fight the Soviet Union. After ten years of savage fighting, the Mujahedin were able ... presence, military and civilian, from their holy sites and the whole Gulf region. The U.S. State Department currently links al-Qaida to many recent terrorist attacks in the United States and foreign countries, among them t...

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