The UK's Prospect Magazines published that analysis and commentators highlight poverty in the Middle East as a possible factor in the attacks. ... In his book, Bernard Lewis argues that after the Afghan-USSR war, problems in the Middle East were compounded by the introduction of two western ideologies. ... After the 1990 collapse of communism and the seemingly triumph of capitalism, democracy and freedom that most of the western world is part of, there was the emergence of three possible trends across the Middle East. ... Two, at the end of the Cold War, ideological ties that had frozen t...

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The Middle East isn't a prime location to do business anyway, and with so much devastation going on there right now, I don't see in the near future an opportunity for terrorists to facilitate an attack comparable to the devastation of 9/11. ... Granted, that was in the past, and the actions of the U.S. to end the Japanese attack on the U.S. in World War II can't really be used to describe the current state in which we live due to terrorism, though it does paint a picture about the way terrorists interacted in the world prior to 9/11, and it is proof that the terrorists at that t...

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It changed our world by introducing an element of fear and became a catalyst for impending war in the Middle East. ... I was perturbed by the malice Americans demonstrated towards Indians, Pakistanis, and the Middle Easterners. ...

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The United States, first of all, should stop the bombing, change its international policies in the Middle East, and stop the continuous help to Israel... Second, the United States should change its international policies regarding the Middle East. ... Is it here perhaps (especially in the Middle East) that, America has gone wrong. ... Those are some of the reasons, why so many people in the Middle East hate the United States. ... The United States should put a real effort, to help the Palestinians in their pace's process with the Jewish, this will solve many controversies in the Midd...

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After the attacks on the World Trade Center on September 11 2001 commonly known as 9-11, the media's coverage of terrorism seemed as if to quadruple, and in that people's views of minorities, mainly those who look to originate of the Middle East, also quadrupled. People's assumptions took them for granted saying that, "the attackers of 9-11 were Middle Eastern and therefore all Middle Easterns are terrorists," which as educated humans know is to be false. There is the correlation that the attackers of 9-11 were Middle Eastern but does not fit the reversal saying that all Middle ...

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In the book, See No Evil, one of the CIA's top field officers of the past quarter century recounts his career running agents in the back alleys of the Middle East. ... A twenty-one-year veteran of the CIA's Directorate of Operations who had left the agency in 1997, Baer observed firsthand how an increasingly bureaucratic CIA lost its way in the post-cold war world and refused to adequately acknowledge and neutralize the growing threat of Islamic fundamentalist terror in the Middle East and elsewhere. ... First, the CIA should increase its human Intel operations overseas especiall...

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He acknowledges the lack of understanding about the Middle East by writing "Suddenly, TV news anchors were making pronouncements about the Arab world and discussing the Koran; reporters were traveling to the region so they could explain to their readers where the attackers had come from." Neyfakh words express not only a lack of knowledge pertaining to the Middle East, but also a new-found interest in the Islamic religion and culture. ...

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Racism towards people from the Middle East have augmented and amplified. Middle Easters are treated disrespectfully and unfairly in many situations in which they shouldn"t because they are not the ones who caused the disaster of 9/11. ... Racism also has increased as more and more Middle Easters are treated unfair simply because of their nationalities. ...

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And terrorists "are Islamic extremists aggregating in the Middle Eastern and North African regions; devising plans to wreak terror in the lives of innocent people. ... Furthermore, governments in the Middle East and North Africa have for many years adopted laws and policies in the name of combating violence or "terrorism-, which are not in consistency with their obligations under human rights law and standards. ... Since the September 11th attacks in the US several countries in the Middle East and North Africa have taken or stepped up measures presented as "efforts of combating terroris...

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(Berry 145) To relate the media directly to our case study we should look at a specific example being broadcast from the Middle East. Most Americans receive their news from privately owned television stations while in the Middle East almost all television station there are government owned and regulated. ... Most foreign policy issues come from problems in the Middle East and most lifestyle issues are broad ranging but generally targeted towards specific freedoms and rights we have versus their homeland. Be aware that not all Middle Easterner's hate America's foreign policy that ...

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In the virtual café a lot of topics have been thrown around. Terrorism brings up two popular sociological ideas, troubles and issues. Both similar in definition, issues are values cherished by groups that are felt to be threatened, and troubles are situations that occur that cause and individual's ...

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History is the image of the past created by the play of imagination and intellect on the materials left by earlier generations. Research has shown that all people, primitive and civilized, have had their historians who told their narratives in epic poems or in prose. (Adapted from Collier's Encyclop...

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The Attacks were said to be done by a terrorist group in the Middle East known as Al Qaeda, but what are the possibilities of another option? ... If one were to ask several Americans why troops were stationed in Middle Eastern countries a majority would agree that the military was fighting Al Qaeda and searching for Osama Bin Laden. ... Not even a month after September 11th, troops were sent into the Middle East and a "War on Terror" was announced. ...

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Many thought that what was going on in the Middle East would never reach the United States. ... According to Phil Hirschkorn and Michael Okwu, Writers For CNN say in their article "Racial Profiling, Discrimination suites" that there have been 31 complaints about discrimination from people of Middle Eastern or Muslim heritage. ...

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The Siege is a movie about modern terrorism and the attempts to counter-act the violence by a coalition of groups, including the FBI, CIA, and US Army. Almost frighteningly, the film serves to loosely foreshadow the events of 9-11 even though the movie was filmed a full three years before that hor...

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The Al0Aaeda in Afghanistan, the Jaishe Mohmmad and the Lashker-e-Toiba based in Pakistan, the Palestine Liberation Organisation in the Middle East, the LTTE in Sri Lanka, the Maoists in Nepal, the Naxalite organization called People's War Group (PWA) in parts of India, the Naga National Council, several pro-Pakistan groups operating in Jammu and Kashmir, the Irish Army in the U.K., etc. are already playing havoc in their respective areas. ...

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Roots of rage grievances over the U.S. policy in the Middle East combined with Islamic Triumphal make a toxic mix. ... Animosity toward the U.S. in the Middle East can be plotted through concentric circles. ...

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Even though OIF officially ended on May 1st, the military operations in this Middle Eastern country are still being held in order to keep peace to ensure the reconstruction of an Iraq shattered by decades of war and embargo while Saddam Hussein's Regime was still on the power. ... In fact, freedom should not have a price tag since this right can not denied to any individual in the world as inversely done by China, Cuba, some North African and Middle Eastern Countries whose government suppress their citizens to arbitrary and illegal laws which are highly banned in Western Societies, for ex...

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Others took their aggression out by attacking and in some cases murdering those who looked like they were of Middle Eastern descent. ... Why is it then that people of Middle Eastern descent have not been incarcerated like the Japanese were? ... (Source: CNN&Reuters 2002, www.sept.11news.com) When September 11th came around, a large number of the Arabs and Muslims (and even people who even slightly resembled someone from the Middle East and southern Asia) were harassed, some were even beaten, and most of them were racially profiled by just about everyone that was not an Arab or Muslim. ......

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The destruction of the World Trade Center was committed to make a statement because of the alleged involvement the United States had with the Persian Gulf War and continued military presence in the Middle East. ...

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I believe the September 11 attacks on innocent civilians were acts of terrorism not acts of war. According to Webster's New World dictionary terrorism is the unlawful use or threatened use of force or violence by a person or an organized group against people or property with the intention of intimid...

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They have successfully been recruiting American citizens from overseas to join them and fight for them, along with having some persuaded to attack on our homeland without even going to the Middle East. ...

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Terrorism due to religion, happens all over the world, not just in the Middle East. ... Although these attacks have very little to do with the US, our Nations government feels the need to mediate, and be the middle man, purely for power sake, thus involving a 3rd party, and putting its people at risk. ...

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The goal is to fight terrorism with out creating further resentment and hatred among the Middle Eastern public (Walker). ... An excellent example of this is the current conflict in the Middle East between Israel and Palestine. ...

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September 11, 2001 is a day that is imprinted in the memories of most Americans. These people remember it as a day that significantly changed America for years to come. Before the events on that morning almost 14 years ago, the word "terrorism" was rarely used and other words like al-Qaida, Taliban...

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