Posted by: zanshin, 2008-01-21 02:12

Statement
Note: If you want to develop this Statement into an Argumentation, you have to fill in the Title box of this Statement.
Date: 1998
the CIA foiled an attempt to smuggle a shipment of explosives which were to be used in terrorist acts against US military bases in Germany. The individual who organized the plot was a citizen of Bosnia of Algerian origin






Comments


No comments yet.

Please login to post your comment.












All trademarks and copyrights on this page are owned by their respective owners.
Stories, Arguments and Comments are owned by the Poster.
The Rest copyright © 2007 Argumentations.com. All rights reserved. Argumentations.com provides material for research or educational purposes only. We do not warrant the correctness of its contents. The risk from using it lies entirely with the user. While using this site, you agree to have read and accepted our Terms of Use and Privacy Policy. Argumentations.com is far from perfect so if you have any critiques, questions, comments or problems about this site please tell us. Click here to send your feedback. And if you like Argumentations.com please link to this site. It will really help a lot.
   

Tags

Algeria,   Bosnia,   CIA,   Germany,   military,   Terrorism,   USA,   War On Terror,  

Related stories

Related arguments

No results

View other suggested statements

Date 
2001 Henry Crumpton, a highly regarded official, supervised the C.I.A.’s covert activities in Afghan...
2007-09-04 Three Islamist terror suspects have been arrested in Germany, under suspicion of plotting bomb at...
2002-08-01 The Yoo-Bybee Memo 'redefnes' torture
2007 In the United States, Jack Goldsmith, who as head of the Office of Legal Counsel made the decisio...
2007 In the United States, Jack Goldsmith, who as head of the Office of Legal Counsel made the decisio...
2003-03-14 “The victim must experience intense pain or suffering of the kind that is equivalent to the pai...
2003-12 The memo of John C. Yoo, second-ranking official at the Office of Legal Counsel at the United Sta...
2003-03-14 In a sweeping legal brief, a detailed 81-page opinion written by John C. Yoo, who at the time was...
2004-07 In Washington, Congress's commission to investigate September 11, published its final report

T...
2001-09 In Belgium, Nizar Trabelsi, a former professional soccer player from Tunisia who was arrested for...
2003 In Belgium, Nizar Trabelsi was convicted for plotting an attack on Kleine Brogel, a Belgian air b...
2007-12 In United States, the House of Representatives approved a bill that would ban the CIA from using ...
2008-01-15 Deputy Chief of Turkish General Staff Gen. Ergin Saygun visited Baghdad at the invitation of his...
2007-08-09 Pakistan Senate Foreign Relations Committee has already adopted a resolution demanding – that P...
2006-09 "Together with our coalition partners, we've removed terrorist sanctuaries, disrupted their ...
2007-09-03 A coalition air strike killed Abu Mohammad al-Afri, the terrorist responsible for the planning an...
2006-09 United States named retired General Joseph Ralston, the former NATO Supreme Allied Commander in E...
2006-10-17 President Bush Signs Military Commissions Act of 2006
2006-09-27 The US House of Representatives passes the Military Commissions Act of 2006T...
2006-09-28 The US Senate passes the Military Commissions Act of 2006T...
2001-09-21 Amnesty International faxed a letter to President George W. Bush.
2004-04 “The truth is, there is no Islamic army or terrorist group called Al Qaida. And any informed in...
2008-10-12 Ali Larijani condemned the US attacks on the Pakistani tribal areas in Waziristan
2008-09-15 In the USA, the Pentagon denied reports that Pakistani troops fired on two U.S. military helicopt...
2009-05-21 Former U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney speaks about national security at the American Enterprise ...
2008 The USA Rewrd For Justice program added Baitullah Mehsud to its Most Wanted list
2008 The USA Rewrd For Justice program added Radullan Sahiron to its Most Wanted list
2008 The USA Rewrd For Justice program added Abdul Basit Usman to its Most Wanted list
2008 The USA Rewrd For Justice program added Khair Mundos to its Most Wanted list
2008 The USA Rewrd For Justice program added Abu Yahya al-Libi to its Most Wanted list
2008 The USA Rewrd For Justice program added Sirajuddin Haqqani to its Most Wanted list
1985-03-08 In Lebanon, the USA tried to assassinate Sayeed Fadlallah.
That bid, organized by Reagan’s CI...
2009-02-17 In the USA, the White House announced that 17,000 more troops would join the existing 65,000 West...
2008-10 Suicide bomb in Somaliland
2009-01-23 Obama, in his first military action as president, sanctioned two missile attacks inside Pakistan,...
2007-11-06 "Don’t expect to hear this from the White House any time soon, but the global war on terro...
1932 “this form of imperialism… presents a particular threat to a people forced in a defensive pos...
2008-09-27 “More and more questions are being raised as to what is going on in Afghanistan. First and fore...
USA declares Pakistan a state sponsor of terrorism...
2001-09-12 On or about September 12, 2001, former terrorism advisor Richard Clarke personally informed Presi...
1992 In the USA, the Draft Defense Planning Guidance is published
2006-09-06 In the USA, President Bush in his speech confirmed and defended the Central Intelligence Agencyâ€...
2002-08-01 Memo Dated August 1, 2002, from OLC to CIA; signed by Jay Bybee
Memo "advising the CIA reg...
2008-07-29 Most terrorist groups end either because they join the political process, or because local police...
2008-07-29 Dropping the term, "war on terror" is more than a mere matter of semantics
2008-08-05 There’s going to be an i-9/11 event. Which doesn’t necessarily mean an Al Qaeda attack, it me...
2001-10 In the USA, five people were killed and 12 injured when a series of anthrax-laced letters were se...
EU and the United States lists Hamas as a terrorist organization.
...
2008-06 Iran "has a history of terror in this hemisphere [Latin America], and its linkages to the bo...
2008-04 Venezuelan border officials at the Caracas airport often neglected to enter the arriving passenge...
2008-08-27 The CIA program involves tough customers and tough interrogations -- but it is entirely legal and...
2008-08-27 No nation in the world takes human rights more seriously than the United States. The policies of ...
2008-08-27 We expect all who serve America to conduct themselves with honor. And we enforce the rules.
-- D...
2008-08-27 Some years ago, abuses were committed at Abu Ghraib prison -- conduct that was not authorized and...
2001 Killing innocent people is not a ‘war on terrorism’; it is terrorism.
-- Noam Chomsky, Septe...
2008-05-15 The entire idea of a "war on terror" is a misleading concept that has got this country ...
2006-01-17 International terrorism does not exist
2008-10-26 U.S. forces ferried by 4 helicopter crossed five miles into Syria from Iraq and launched a comman...
2007-01-18 US Department of Defense announces the creation of the Military Commissions Manual....
2003-02-17 Agents employed by the US foreign intelligence agency kidnapped the radical imam Abu Omar right o...
2000-10 The suicide attack on the USS Cole in the Yemeni port city of Aden.
2001-09-11 The resulting “neocon” analysis went something like this: 9/11 was an emanation of an ideolog...
2001-01-16 "We have found a number of things that show an appetite for WMD."
--Secretary of Defen...
2007-04-11 Two bombings in Algeria, one targeting the prime minister’s office in the country’s capital, ...
2006-09-19 U.S. Senator Patrick Leahy (D-Vermont) noted that 2007's Defense Authorization Act contained a &q...
2006-09-29 U.S. Senator Patrick Leahy entered into the Congressional Record that he had "grave reservat...
2006-10-31 The first meeting of the Global Initiative to Combat Nuclear Terrorism was held in Rabat, Morocco.
2006-10-17 President George W. Bush signed into law H.R. 5122, the "John Warner National Defense Author...
2007-04-27 The Central Intelligence Agency held a captured Qaeda leader, Abd al-Hadi al-Iraqi, an Iraqi Kurd...
2007-04-30 The number of people killed by global terrorism rose by 40 percent to 20,498 in 2006 from 14,618 ...
2007-04-30 Cuba, Iran, North Korea, Sudan and Syria are state sponsors of terrorism.
The U.S. State Departm...
2007-04-30 "Iran remains the most significant state sponsor of terrorism and continues to threaten its ...
2006-05-16 "Our cause is a just cause. Terrorism respects no value system; terrorism does not respect t...
2006-01-16 "In Saudi Arabia, we strongly believe that international cooperation is crucial for fighting...
2001-08-06 President Bush is warned that Osama bin Laden / Al Qaeda prepares for hijackings
1996-06-25 Nineteen US servicemen are killed and 372 wounded by an explosion of a powerful truck bomb in th...
1997 Osama bin Laden tells CNN that the US must pay for its support of Israel....
1998-08-07 US embassies in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, and Nairobi, Kenya, are simultaneously bombed, killing 2...
1998 US president, Bill Clinton, orders cruise missile strikes on al-Qaida training camps in Afghanist...
1996 Osama bin Laden tells the London-based al-Quds newspaper that his previously Pakistan-based Afgha...
1993-02-26 In New York, a bomb explodes in the underground car park at the World Trade Centre, killing seven...
2003-10 US ambassador to Nato says Franco-German plan to set up independent European military planning HQ...
2003-02 France, Germany and Belgium temporarily block US move to offer military support to Turkey in even...
2007-06-10 "Guantanamo has become a major, major problem ... in the way the world perceives America and...
2006-08 In cooperation with the U.S. and Pakistan, British authorities disrupted a terrorist plot to blow...
2003-09-11 What is the worst thing that can happen in our country? The worst thing that can happen is, perha...
1988-08-05 An Arab-language newspaper in London published a letter from the International Islamic Front for ...
2001-11-13 Members of the al Qaeda organization are not considered "prisoners of war," and therefo...
2007-07-03 "Events in Great Britain since last Friday serve as a reminder -- if we ever needed one -- t...
2004 "Consensus in the national security community (is that a) dirty bomb (attack is) inevitable,...
1996-08 Osama bin Laden published a "Declaration of War against the Americans Occupying the Land of ...
1999-02 "This is my message to the American people: to look for a serious government that looks out ...
2007-01-11 The challenge playing out across the broader Middle East is more than a military conflict. It is ...
1992 U.S. troops arrived on Basilan island to train Filipino soldiers battling Abu Sayyaf.

Over th...
2001-09-12 In response of the 9/11 attack, Israel's Prime Minister Ariel Sharon declared a national day of m...
2001-12 "Hamas has obtained much of the money that it pays for murder abroad right here in the Unite...
2004 In the United States, a federal grand jury indicted Holy Land Foundation and its leaders in 2004 ...
2003-10-10 "We must do everything in our power to keep terrorists from ever acquiring weapons of mass d...
2004-07-22 To carry out a catastrophic act of terror like 9/11, an organization requires "time, space, ...
2002 "Much of what it prescribes for homeland security... conforms to Clausewitz's definition of ...
2004-05 In one of his longer memos, often referred to as "snowflakes", Donald Rumsfeld consider...
2007-09-12 Austrian anti-terror forces in Vienna arrested three people with links to al Qaeda who posted an ...
1989 New People's Army created a special unit that assassinated U.S. Army Col. James Nicolas Rowe of t...
2003-05 The United States declares Batasuna a terrorist group. The European Union follows suit a month la...
Pakistan cooperates with the United States and NATO in the war against terrorism...
2001 President Musharraf's government supports the United States-led campaign against Afghanistan and ...
The key theater in the global war on terror is Iraq...
2005 Algerian Salafist cell affiliated with al-Qaeda which earlier claimed responsibility for a 2005 a...
The battle in Iraq as a distraction from the real war on terror....
2002-09 French police arrest a man and woman suspected of being top leaders of Eta following a joint oper...
2007-09-09 Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe pledged in Sydney that he would stake his job on getting parlia...
2007-09-10 "We assess Lebanese Hezbollah, which has conducted anti-US attacks outside the United States...
2006-12-15 in the United States, the Army and the Marine Corps will release an ambitious new counterinsurgen...
2007-09-07 The United States was vulnerable despite its military and economic power.
-- Osama bin Laden, al...
2007-09-07 "Despite America being the greatest economic power and possessing the most powerful and mode...
2004 David Kilcullen’s writings and lectures brought him to the attention of an official working for...
2005-07 David Kilcullen, as a result of his work on the Pentagon document, received an invitation to atte...
PKK is listed as a terrorist organisation by Turkey, the United States and the European Union....
2001-12 Sami al-Haj, an al-Jazeera journalist, tried to re-enter Afghanistan with his colleagues, he was ...
2002-01 Sami al-Haj, an al-Jazeera journalist, was imprisoned, handed over to the US authorities, taken ...
2007-09-20 The members of the IAEA 35-nation board of governors are Albania, Algeria, Argentina, Australia, ...
2002-06-01 For much of the last century, America's defense relied on the Cold War doctrines of deterrence an...
2007-09-02 “Whether you go for pinprick strikes or all-out military action, the reaction from the Iranians...
1964 In France, David Galula published "Counterinsurgency Warfare: Theory and Practice".
Th...
2007-07 President Bush signed a controversial executive order on the treatment of suspects detained by th...
2008-01-10 In Iraq, United States military unleashed a massive air blitz on Al-Qaeda targets south of the Ir...
2008-01-09 In Algeria, six soldiers have been wounded when their vehicle drove over an explosive device tha...
2004-12-16 An audio tape, purportedly of Osama bin Laden in which he blessed a militant attack on a US consu...
2004-12-06 Five staff were killed when Islamist gunmen stormed the United States consulate in Jeddah, Saudi ...
2008-01-06 In Iraq, at least 14 people, among them six security personnel, were killed and 32 wounded in thr...
2004-05-07 'Bin Laden' offers gold for killing of Bremer
2004-06-12 Al-Arabiya broadcasts audio tape purportedly from Zawahiri in which he criticises a US plan to re...
2004-09-09 Zawahiri says the US faces defeat in Iraq and Afghanistan
2004-10-29 Just days before the United States presidential election, a videotape of Osama Bin Laden surfaces...
2008-01-03 A powerful car bomb exploded Thursday near a military base in Diyarbakir, Turkey's main Kurd-domi...
2004 In the United States, Notre Dame University offered Tariq Ramadam its Henry R Luce professorship ...
1996 France refused entry to Tariq Ramadan because of alleged links to an Algerian terrorist engaged i...
2003-03 Khalid Sheikh Mohammad (KSM), who allegedly orchestrated the 9/11 terrorist strikes by Al-Qaeda i...
2002-03 In Islamabad, Pakistan, a suicide bomber blew himself up inside a church frequented by the diplom...
2004 The United States and the United Nations lifted the sanctions of Libya after Qaddafi renounced te...
1992 In Bosnia, the government of Alija Izetbegovic issued a passport to Osama bin Laden....
2006-08-03 International Islamic Relief Organization (IIRO) is placed on the American Treasury Department's ...
2002-11 Bisher al-Rawi and Jamil el-Banna, two British residents, were arrested in Gambia.

They were...
2007-12-11 Two bombings in Algeria, with the first massive explosion rocking the Algerian constitutional and...