Terrorism and travel
Between the jets, the fuel, and the kinetic force of the collapsing World Trade Center buildings, the southwestern tip of Manhattan had been struck with a force estimated at twice the size of the smallest U. terrorism and travel The future of terrorism. S. tactical nuclear weapon. It was the most deadly attack on U. terrorism and travel Statistics on terrorism. S. territory in history. What kind of people would do this?Many of us in the United States thought we had a clear picture of a Middle Eastern terrorist-he was a young man, in his teens or early twenties, trained to perform a lone suicide mission in a crowded public space in Israel. terrorism and travel Counter terrorism training. We think to ourselves that he doesn't know any better, that he has been duped -and more sadly, that the poor kid never had a chance at a normal life. But these modern, twenty-first-century terrorists turn out to be very different sorts of people, and that has been part of the shock of the new. As the 19 probable hijackers have been identified, we've learned that they are older and are from widely varied backgrounds. Many have spent years in Western countries, apparently melting comfortably into the culture. Some have shown no sign-even to their families-that they would be willing to take part in a campaign of terror. The well-to-do Lebanese father of Ziad Jarrahi, one of the hijackers of Jeremy Glick's Flight 93, described his son as a good student and a secular person who enjoyed nightclubs and an occasional alcoholic drink. The grieving elder Jarrahi was as mystified as the rest of us by the horrific turn of events. Behind the hijackers is presumed to be Al-Qaeda, a network of terrorist groups said to be led by Osama bin Laden, a multi-millionaire expatriate Yemen-born Saudi who has pledged the destruction of the United States. Bin Laden and his Taliban "hosts" in Afghanistan (he was expelled from Saudi Arabia, which holds a warrant for his arrest) might well describe themselves as Islamic purists, but it may be a mistake to believe that their underlying motives are religious. Bin Laden argues that Islam is under threat from the United States-a country that has stood since its founding for religious tolerance. This absurdity is readily swallowed by the young, the uneducated, and the disturbed or desperate among the Islamic world's many poor. But after September 11 the world knows-as it should have known before-that what the terrorist leaders are after is power, and what they believe in is death and destruction-not the tenets of any religion. No matter how puzzling the new terror network may be, it is critical that we come to understand how its leaders recruit (or perhaps compel?) young men like Ziad Jarrahi to join them. Some take bin Laden's hosts, the Taliban, at their word-that they are a religious movement. But the millions of their Afghan countrymen who have fled their bloody reign might question that view. In any case, their quest for power is clear: Their leader, the Mullah Mohammed Omar, has declared himself leader of all Islam. How did it happen?The foremost reason the terrorist attack succeeded on September 11 is painfully simple. Aviation experts, among them former Department of Transportation official Mary Schiavo, immediately pointed to the weaknesses of airline security systems and the country's unwillingness to pay the price or take the time to improve them. Over the last decade airport security steadily deteriorated as the recommendations of two congressional commissions, followed by new legislation, were simply ignored. As the September 15 Economist summed it up, "Security at airports was appallingly lax. Terrorists carrying little more than knives and cardboard cutters managed to hijack commercial planes at some of America's biggest airports. .
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