“A Great People has been moved to defend a Great Nation” On September 11th, 2001 terrorists associated with Al Qaeda and led by Osama Bin Laden attacked the World Trade Center in New York City and the Pentagon building in Washington D.C. Later the same day at 8:30 in the evening, President George W. Bush addressed the nation. The speech lasted five minutes and addressed a defining moment in history as well as in President Bush’s administration. The address was President Bush’s reaction to the terrorist
that I will bring would be a short synopsis on the Fourth Wave of terrorism accounting the analysis of David C. Rapoport. Secondly, I will answer on how Al-Qaeda has spread out in so many worldwide countries; analyse the network created by Osama bin Laden that has lead to countless deaths of innocent civilians targeted by this terrorist organisation. Rapoport’s Wave Theory According to David Rapoport’s analysis on terrorism there are four main waves of terrorism. He suggests that each wave belongs to
In “Address to the Nation”, a speech released by President Barack Obama on December 6th of 2015, Obama discusses the ubiquitous issue of terrorism, specifically referring to ISIL. An analysis of the first section of this speech uncovered the anomaly of a tragedy depicting 14 American soldiers who were killed in the hands of a terror organization formally known as ISIL. As the president advances in his national address, he elucidates all aspects of terrorism in this tragedy, but also details pertaining