Terrorism

September 11, 2001

British Bus Bombing

Madrid Subway Bombing

USS Cole Bombing

Mumbai Attack


 * Key Terms: **

Terrorist- a radical who uses terror, violence, mayhem, and destruction as a political weapon. Terrorists often create great fear among a nation by blowing up planes and forming terrorist groups such as the Al-Qaeda.

Osama Bin Laden- arab terrorist who made the Al-Qaeda terrorist group. He blamed his religion for the actions that the group made. He recently was killed on May 2.

September 11- arab suicide bombers hijacked U.S airlines and used them as bombs. They put the civilians in danger in order to attain political aims.

State Sponsored Terrorism- where terrorism is used to intimidate the government’s own people like the government in Lebanon.

Islamic Jihad- a Shiite terrorist organization, like the FTO, with strong ties to Iran. They want to create an Iranian fundamentalist Islamic state in Lebanon. They use fear against people such as car bombs.

Al Qaeda- terrorist group strongly opposed to the United States. they cause mayhem worldwide, infiltrating the Pakistani navy.

Middle East- area around the eastern Mediterranean that has had economic and political turmoil in the 20th century such as food prices drastically increasing.

Terrorism Timeline 

Do Now:

-U.S thinks they better than everyone? take things for granted?

-U.S resulted to war against afghanistan. i think that was the wrong decision because gives al qaeda mroe reason to target us. also, threatened lives of many innocent in afghanistan and U.S.

-i believe we invaded iraq for the right reasons b.c hussein did in fact have severe gases. also, helped the people and stuff...

Ricardo Lagos: -Lagos believes that the U.S shouldn't have rushed in to Iraq. They should have waited to see what actions the UN was taking before they reacted.