The action, drama, suspense and war movie “13 Hours in Benghazi” highlights the true story of the event of September 11, 2012 from an eye witness perspective. It is directed by Michael Bay. The agitation for America’s democracy met violent opposition which pioneered a huge public protest against Gaddafi’s regime that consequently warranted air strikes in October 2011 by the British, United State and French forces on Libyan soil. Eventually the revolution (TURF war) led to the fall of Muammar Gaddafi dictatorship (Tyranny rule) after 42year and bears an unprecedented effect. The aftermaths, brought unintended consequences the following year 2012 as militia gang access and stole armories which were sold freely on the street. In a remark the …show more content…
Again it also necessary to carefully ascertain; the reason for the attack whether it is unrelated to previous or current political or religious activities inside or outside Libya. There is need to ask a few questions on the role of the diplomatic affairs and state security. When such a question of who is to blame for this preventable attack. There will accusation followed by counter accusation and finger pointing as it appears in this case. It raises doubt and questions that yarns to be answer with strong reinforcing augment begging to be resolve. It means someone responsible to avert such danger was not thinking …show more content…
Obama’s and Clinton’s words likely encouraged Los Angeles County sheriff’s deputies to arrest Nakoula Basseley Nakoula, the Coptic Christian filmmaker who produced Innocence of Muslims. He was sentenced to one year at La Tuna Federal Correctional Institution in Texas, supposedly for parole violations tied to an unrelated bank-fraud case. Having thrown Nakoula behind bars as, essentially, an American political prisoner, Obama and Clinton effectively swept this entire affair under a Persian rug past Election Day 2012. They concealed these hideous facts long enough to protect Obama’s core reelection theme. As he told the Democratic National Convention that September 6: “Al-Qaeda is on the path to defeat, and Osama bin Laden is
This historical study will compare and contrast the depiction of the “War on Terror” in a pro-government and anti-government plot structures found in Zero Dark Thirty (2012) by Kathryn Bigelow and The Siege (1998) by Edward Zwick. The pro-government view of Zero Dark Thirty defines the use of CIA agents and military operatives to track down Osama Bin Laden in the 2000s. Bigelow appears to validate the use of torture and interrogation as a means in which to extract information in the hunt for Bin Laden. In contrast this depiction of terrorism, Zwick’s film The Siege exposes the damage that torture, kidnapping, and
Marianne Szegedy-Maszak, a senior writer at U.S. News and World, published her article, "The Abu Ghraib Prison Scandal: Sources of Sadism," in 2004. She uses the article to briefly overview the scandal as a whole before diving into what can trigger sadistic behavior. The Abu Ghraib Prison Scandal took place in 2004, wherein American troops humiliated and tortured Iraqi detainees (Szegedy-Maszak 75). The main objective of Szegedy-Maszak’s article is to investigate the causation behind sadistic behavior, exclusively in the Abu Ghraib Prison scandal. She effectively does so by gathering information and research from professional psychologists and professors of psychology, specifically Herbert Kelman and Robert Okin (Szegedy-Maszak 76). She finds
On the month of April in 2004, in the city of Habbaniyah, Iraq, a brutal and terrible act took place which ignited one of the bloodiest battles in the history of Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF). Four Black Water security members were killed and publicly maimed. The resulting battle left a high casualty rate as well as hundreds of American service members being wounded. This is the story of the events that took place after the events in the city of Habbaniyah.
In the documentary, Loose Change 9/11: An American Coup by Dylan Avery, he discusses the well-known attack on 9/11 of the twin towers. However, the director also analyses the lesser discussed attack on the Pentagon, the world trade center 7 building, and the plane that crashed at Shanksville Pennsylvania. Avery argues that American citizens should not be so fast to decide the attack was conducted by Osama Bin Laden and a few Islamic terrorists, without first examining all the existing evidence that argues otherwise. Additionally, Avery argues that Bin Laden and the other radical Islamic terrorists associated with the attack were just pawns and that there could have been a more organized execution of the violence that day. Throughout the duration of the documentary, Dylan Avery narrates and analyzes each attack
What lessons have we learned in the post-9/11 world? What actions and organizing techniques should we discard, and what methods should we revisit? Again, the problem is that the antiwar movement is lacking actual organizers, particularly at the community level.
Historical Significance: The September 11th, 2001, attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, orchestrated by Al-Qaeda and Bin Laden, were the events that launched the U.S. War on Terrorism. Al-Qaeda’s attack on the United States was carried out by members of radicalized Islamic groups, whose objective was to spread jihad against the secular influence of the West. This tragic event provided the historical b...
September 11th was a dark and stormy Tuesday where the lives of people became the cost of revenge. Many innocent people faced their Tuesday morning by ending their lives instantly, as a high jacked plane plummeted from the sky, towards their office building. At 8:45 am a high jacked passenger jet, flight 11 of American Airlines, plunges into the North tower of The World Trade Center. 9:03 am another plane hit this time the South tower. Leaving both buildings ablaze in flames of deat...
The Boston Marathon bombings happened on April 15, 2013 when two bombs exploded at 2:49 pm near the finish line of the Boston Marathon. The bombers were brothers, Tamerlan & Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, who moved to the United States after the father applied for political asylum. The younger Tsarnaev brother said the attacked the Boston Marathon in retaliation for U.S. wars in Muslim countries. The Boston Marathon Bombing Trial is important to American society because it changed the way we looked at acts of terrorism legally, showed that people must effectively pay for their actions, and that we must never let our guard down.
Edward Snowden uses the 2013 Boston Marathon Bombings as his central example in regards to government oversight and mass surveillance failure. Prior to the bombings, Russian authorities had been tracking and monitoring the Tamerlan and Dzhokar Tsarnaev and informed US officials about the brothers (Zetter). Even though the US had been tipped off by Russia two years before the bombings took place, the FBI only performed a cursory investigation, even though they knew the Tsarnaevs were involved with extremism; no follow up investigation was ever made (Deluca). After the attack had occurred, even with surveillance footage of the suspected brothers, facial-recognition software, and two government databases, authorities could not identify the Tsarnaevs. The watch lists, which should have notified authorities if suspects traveled abroad, likewise failed: the databases had misspelled the suspects’ names by a letter and had the wrong birthdates. Surveillance technology was unsuccessful: the NSA collected data on the Tsarnaevs before the bombing, but had not realized that it was more important than the data they collected on millions of others (Zetter).
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During the author’s life in New York and Oberlin College, he understood that people who have not experienced being in a war do not understand what the chaos of a war does to a human being. And once the western media started sensationalizing the violence in Sierra Leone without any human context, people started relating Sierra Leone to civil war, madness and amputations only as that was all that was spoken about. So he wrote this book out o...
The most obvious criticism, most of the public protests, is the foreign policy of the United States. America has become very well known as the “Police Force of the World.” A debate still rages on, in today's society, about America's involvement in the Middle East. Both sides of the argument give noteworthy points according to what they believe would benefit America. However, this post will not be studying the foreign policy of America. This post will be going in depth about what caused the deaths of four innocent Americans in Benghazi. Firstly, we must take a look at what happened, in Libya, that caused America to be involved in the first place.
The night before the anniversary of 9/11 in 2013, Barack Obama delivered a speech to the United States of America on the subject of Syria’s inhumane use of chemical weapons on its own citizens. The United States’ intelligence analysts estimated that more than 1,400 civilians were killed due to the chemical warheads that were launched on the area right outside of Damascus. In President Barack Obama’s address to the nation on Syria, he attempts to persuade the American people to support his plan of a targeted air strike on Syria. By describing the victims of Syria, giving reasons for the inhumanity of the Syrian government, and reinforcing his credibility,
The November thirteenth terrorist attacks on Paris stunned the world. With the deaths of 129 people in the metropolis, it has veritably reached the same severity as the 2001 attack on the World Trade Center in New York City. Now that the world has had a chance to recover from the shock of the tragedy however, it is now faced with many hard questions. Why did this attack take place? Why did it take place where and when it did? As with most catastrophes, the most prevailing question surrounding the whole ordeal is whether anything could have been done to prevent it, but the answer is far from cut and dried. The contributing factors of the attacks are many, the most frightening clearly being that the Paris attacks were the result of comprehensive
Many conspiracy theories exist about the attacks. Although it is commonly held that the terrorist organization Al-Qaeda is responsible, some think it was an inside job—coming from the United States. Others acknowledge Al-Qaeda as the perpetrator, but blame the cause on past involvement of the United States in the Middle East. One such person is Amiri Baraka. In his poem, Somebody Blew Up America, Baraka points to the larger system as the root cause of violence. He never blames a single entity, but through the use of rhetorical questioning it is obvious as to whom Baraka is accusing as being the real terrorist. Using the word “who” 191 times, Baraka establishes a connection within any reader who feels empathy with victims of anonymous crimes. (IV 1) Who is to blame? Amiri Baraka’s Somebody Blew Up