BACK TO WHERE IT ALL BEGAN

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BACK TO WHEREIT ALL BEGAN

• THE MIDDLE EAST

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Iranand the Hostage Crisis

• Shah Pahlavi
• Helped to power by U.S.
• Build industries
• Gave oil contracts to Foreign companies
• Women were educated
• Recognized Israel
• Secret police terrorized opponents
• Sharia hardliners

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Iranand the Hostage Crisis

• Iranian Revolution 1979
• Ayatollah Khomeini
• Shah violated Islamic Law
• Established Islamic Republic Sharia Law
• Secular courts
• Womens rights

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911

• September 11, 2001
• 19 Arab terrorists hijacked four airliners
• Two crashed into the World Trade Towers
• One crashed into the Pentagon
• The last plane crashed into a field Pennsylvania
  when passengers attack the terrorist
• The plane was headed for the White House

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911

• September 11, 2001
• About 3,000 died
• Over 300 New York City firefighters and 40 police
  officers who ran into the buildings to help
  evacuate citizens

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Operation Iraqi Freedom

• Saddam Hussein defied UN weapons inspectors

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Operation Iraqi Freedom

• Saddam Hussein defied UN weapons inspectors
• Many believed that Hussein was stockpiling
• Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD)
• and he threatened to use them if attacked.

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Operation Iraqi Freedom

• Saddam Hussein defied UN weapons inspectors
• Many believed that Hussein was stockpiling
• Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD)
• and he threatened to use them if attacked.
• Oct 2002, the Democratic controlled Congress
  authorized Bush to use military against Iraq

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Operation Iraqi Freedom

• Saddam Hussein defied UN weapons inspectors
• Many believed that Hussein was stockpiling
• Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD)
• and he threatened to use them if attacked.
• Oct 2002, the Democratic controlled Congress
  authorized Bush to use military against Iraq
• The US launched Operation Iraqi Freedom In March
  2003

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Hunting for the Terrorists

• Osama Bin Laden (Saudi Arabia)
• organized the attacks
• Bin Laden spent some time hiding in Afghanistan
• protected by the Taliban Regime and linked to the
  al-Qaeda terrorist group
• After the Taliban refused to hand Bin Laden over
  to the US, the US attacked Afghanistan

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Hunting for the Terrorists

• Osama Bin Laden (Saudi Arabia)
• Bin Laden found in house about one mile from
  Pakistan military base.
• United States Navy SEALs of the U.S. Naval
  Special Warfare Development Group killed Bin
  Laden and several others in night raid on May 2,
  2011

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Impact on American Life

• Life in America had changed forever
• Terrorist attacks were no longer seen as some
  distant issue, but in our own backyards
• Wave of anti-Muslim sentiments within the United
  States