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Attack of 9/11
Terrorists target major populated and important places in America. This includes Twin Towers, Pentagon, and the White House. Crashing 2 planes into the twin towers. This event it would cause many people to dislike a culture and religion, specifically Muslims. People from Iraq or of decent from that country were targeted and more vulnerable to the American government. As some were then falsely accused of being terrorists. -
President Bush Demands Justice
President Bush demands that the Taliban would stop helping the terrorists and help the US remove them. Either that or the Global War on Terror would not stop. The global war on terror was when other countries would assist in fighting this terrorist group as well. Many knew that they needed to stop those terrorists or they would go to their countries as well. They started enforcing more to investigate Iraq, as this is where the terrorists resided. -
Bush Signs an Attack
President Bush froze any assets to the terrorists. This, in a way would force them to kind of see what was coming. Bush was trying to initiate a first step to really warn them what was going to happen if they did not stop helping the terrorists. This was the first of many acts against their groups. This was a first step in many against terrorism. -
Military Action
Initial strikes made against al-Qaeda terrorist training camps by the American military. Other countries around the world would provide further help. This includes outside communication. Many would be on watch for the al-Qaeda. Many countries saw the impact of 9/11 on the world. Once example would be Britain helping decode information and giving further equipment and intelligence to help America find them and take the terrorists down. -
Remove Saddam Hussein
Saddam Hussein was the president of Iraq. His political dictator political group had recently retaken Iraq. Saddam was a criminal and a leader of the Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party. After 9/11 Bush wanted to make sure Saddam was not assisting the terrorists. When Saddam refused to step down to let them secure a new government in that country, that led to war. Bush knew he was guilty of helping them, or even just letting them reside in that country. This group would promote anti-American culture. -
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