Research Paper on:
Overview of U.S. Terrorism

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the United States and the types of activities they engage in. The focus is on Middle Eastern terrorist organizations and how they get into the U.S. through both legal  and illegal means. The September 11, 2001 attack on the United States is referenced but not a focal point of the paper. Bibliography lists 4 sources. SA137USA.rtf  The tragic event that occurred on September 11, 2001 is an example of what the world had been warned about many times. In 1998, for example, the U.S. government told  American citizens that they were potential targets for terrorists financed by the now infamous Osama bin Laden (Eland, 1998). However, many did not think he, or any other terrorist,  would be capable of orchestrating the tragedy that leveled the World Trade Center and took many thousands of human lives. Like rebellious teenagers, Americans thought they could not be touched,  especially on their own turf. While it may very well be that organizations associated with bin Laden are in the United States, and have been for years, there are other  factions that U.S. citizens may not be aware of that are housed in the very country that was the target of the horrendous attack. Many have probably forgotten The Order  of the Rising Sun. Members of this faction, in 1972, possessed 30 to 40 kilograms of typhoid cultures, bacteria that they planned to put into the American water supply (Yonah,  1999). While many are surprised when terrorism hits home-the World Trade Center bombing and subsequent fatal attack, the USS Cole disaster-terrorism against the United States is really nothing new.  The nation is a principal target for terrorists and while domestic extremist groups attack the nation, international groups have for some time attacked American targets abroad (1999). Foreign groups