the moment‚ information on who has been killed and how many were of people were intended targets is shrouded in secrecy. Moreover‚ according to statistics from the TBIJ children have been killed in these drone strikes yet the US claims that they are Al-Shabaab terrorists. One chilling question is‚ who decides who a terrorist is and is not? What happens when civilians are killed based on faulty meta-data? Article 4 of the Geneva Convention stipulates that an individual must satisfy certain criteria
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history begins with its initial inception and assembly in the late eighth-early ninth century‚ continuing into its expansions of the tenth century‚ culminating in its unexpected welding of ideology in the sixteenth century. “As the premier monument of al-Andalus‚ the Cordoba mosque embodies the history of the Iberian peninsula from its Islamic takeover in 711 through successive stages of Umayyad and post-Umayyad dominion and beyond. Following the fall of Cordoba in 1236‚ the mosque was preserved as
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the Al-Qaeda. His biggest attack was in New York City when two people from the Al-Qaeda flew into the world trade center. “All of a sudden there were people screaming. I saw people jumping out of the building. Their arms were flailing. I stopped taking pictures and started crying.” Osama was born on 10‚1957 in Riyadh‚ Saudi Arabia. His father had fifty children and he was the seventh born. When he got older his parents had a divorce and he moved in with his mother. He attended Al Thagher
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ideology which dominates all aspects of the believer’s lives; a form of Islam dedicated to the conquest of the world by any means possible (the clarion project). I have chosen to examine this subculture because it relates to modern issues such as the Al-Qaeda terror group which was responsible for the notorious 9/11 attack on the World Trade Center in New York City. Another reason why I chose this subculture is because it fascinates me how strongly people can believe in their religion to commit such
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last season. The main characters of the show is women’s shoe salesman Al Bundy‚ his wife Peg‚ dorky son Bud‚ and slutty daughter Kelly. Al loves to watch TV‚ bowl with his buddies‚ drink and go to the "nudy bar". Marcie and Jefferson‚ are the Bundy’s neighbors and also take an active part in the show. Most shows consist of Al going somewhere or doing something and everyone else making fun of him when he fails miserably. Al is someone you can hardly call a father to his kids‚ he’s doesn’t take
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The threat of Global Warming is real and as severe as Al Gore makes it to be in his film “An Inconvenient Truth”. Humans are contributing to climate change. There is proof that we see in our everyday lives such as major increases in natural disasters‚ Antarctica‚ and the raise in carbon dioxide levels. When people say Global Warming is happening what actually is happening is our sun’s rays are heating up our Earth. Some of the rays bounce off Earth and go back to space. On the way back to space some
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CIVICS CHV2O COMMUNITY AND THE COMMON GOOD Using a chart like the one below‚ define each of the words related to issues in civics and give one example (made up or factual) of an issue related to the definition. TERM | DEFINITION | EXAMPLE | Community | the peoplewith common interests living in the same area | The DMCI community | Common Good | The good or well-being of an entity such as a company or an association. The concept is that the good of the entire group can be no more
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progress of the al Qaeda plot. Across the government‚ there were failures of imagination‚ policy‚ capabilities‚ and management” (“The 9/11 Commission Report Executive Review” 14). In understanding this quote we have to take what they said about the three failures into dept‚ looking first at the failure of imagination‚ which the book calls the most important failure of the United States government. This failure being defined by how the leaders did not understand the magnitude of threat al Qaeda and Bin
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place on the eleventh of September 2001 when terrorists under the Al Qaeda terrorist group led by Osama Bin Laden hijacked and flew four planes into the world trade centre. The destruction of this symbol of democracy and freedom shook the entire world and put the problem of terrorism into the spotlight. Within less than a month‚ a US led coalition invaded Afghanistan in an attempt to weed out and eradicate the terrorist threat of Al Qaeda and send a message to other terrorist groups worldwide. Security
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plane demolished part of the Pentagon (the US military headquarters) in Arlington‚ Virginia. The final plane crashed in Shanks Ville‚ Pennsylvania. Both articles agreed that exactly 19 terrorists hijacked the 4 planes; and that the attack was made by Al Qaeda‚ which was led by Osama bin Laden. An over-all of 2‚996 people were killed in the 9/11 attacks‚ including the 19 terrorist hijackers of the four airplanes. At the World Trade Center‚ 2‚763 died after the
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