WAR ON TERROR

WHAT IS TERRORISM?

 1.Write down your own definition of terrorism  2. Share your definition with the people sitting around you  3. Compare and contrast your definitions  Read over this scenario

HOW DO NATIONS DEFINE “TERRORISM”

 European Union  United States  Syria  United Kingdom  United Nations

SEPTEMBER 11, 2001

 19 Members of Al-Qaeda  Osama Bin Laden  Based in Afghanistan  Taliban Gov’t  Nationalism

AFGHANISTAN

 To find Bin Laden and remove the Taliban  Kabul  Power centers   Kandahar  Military center Tora Bora  Mountain range Afg. and Pak. Boarder

AFGHANISTAN

 2002- Al-Qaeda fighters go to Pakistan  2003-05- Insurgent, Taliban regroups  2008- Regained territory in northern Afgh.

 2009- Called for 3,000 more troops  Threaten to disrupt Aug. elections

PATRIOT ACT

 October 26, 2001  Quickly passed  What does the Patriot Act allow the gov’t to do?

 Increase law enforcement to search telephone, e mail, medical, and financial records  To prevent domestic and international terrorist attacks  Allows FBI and CIA to share info  Text in the act is vague

TALIBAN

 Sunni radical Islamic group  Mullah Muhammad Omar  United States  Remove terrorist camps  Remove Al-Qaeda  Hide in Pakistan

AL-QAEDA

 Multinational, stateless   Leaders  Osama  Al-Zawarhiri Suicide Bombers  Tensions   New Caliph Christ. And Jud. Are targets  Legit due to Jihad

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SECOND IRAQ WAR

 Bush Doctrine: US can attack them before they attack us Why?:Bush argues Iraq is a threat because of WMDs How? First US pushes for tighter inspections, then invades claiming Hussein was not cooperating

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THINKING SLIDE:

Do you think that the Bush Doctrine will have be used as much by later presidents as others like the: Monroe Doctrine: Told Europe to keep its hands off the Americas Truman Doctrine: US pledges to support free peoples across the world against communism

OPERATION IRAQI FREEDOM

• Key Players •98% US & UK •Causes •Iraq WMD’s •Ties to terrorists •Human rights violations

REASON AND REACTION

 Collin Powel  WMD’s  Russia and France opposed  Shock and Awe tactic  Heavy bombing  Success or not?

 Iraq fell quickly  Didn’t expect the fight back

•Outcomes-> •Saddam captured, tried & executed •Increased violence •US & UK still involved •Iraq ratified constitution on October 15, 2005 • “Removal of US troops by 2011”-Vice Pres. Biden

TERROR OUTSIDE THE US

 Madrid 3/11/2004  4 trains  1,800 wounded  200 died  London 7/7/2005  Mass transit bombing  4 Suicide Bombers  Linked to Al-Qaeda

GUANTANAMO BAY DETAINEE CAMP

    Located in Cuba Detainees from the WOT  They aren’t considered POW’s Human Right Issue   Torture Religious freedom Obama   Has suspended prosecutions Hopes to closed it within a year