Just have some sympathy for the dying United States of America,already destroyed,US Economy may not survive yet another Oil War!
Palash Biswas
Just have some sympathy for the dying United States of America,already destroyed,US Economy may not survive yet another Oil War!Just like the earlier oil wars in the middle east,UK seems to be the best align of United States of America.Coincidentally,UK is on the verge of a pull out from the European community as the mother Imperialism is all set to lose Scotland which follows Ireland.
If the Great Britain is no more Great Britain and the country is divided as it divided India,the American citizens voting for yet another oil war should consider the imminent danger of breaking of the United States of America after all.
Mind you, many more American states raised the voice to break up with America as America was deeply trapped in middle east.Barack Obama saved America from the imminent civil war which America exports worldwide all on the name of Democracy and spring.America created the terror monsters to export war and civil war in the best interest of its war economy and weapon industries. Ironically,all the monsters of terror have been targeting America trigger happy and American citizens have to pay the ultimate cost which eventually justified the war cry unlimited limited.
The sandstorm is always very very dangerous and US,UK and the allies have bore the burns of the burning oilfields earlier and had been defeated in their so much so hyped victory resultant in recession unprecedented.
American Economy,of course recovered much to the credit of the first Black President who did try to eject out America from the terror zone and ironically showing off Americanism is supreme he failed his mission, The recovery is not final as yet,mind you.
Highly privatized US War economy may not be bailed out as it is yet another oil war,yet another trap for military expenditure in the middle east and yet another recession ahead.
President Barack Obama has to complete his second term,but the self styled incarnation of Martin Luther King has immersed himself and his great nation,the superpower America in the oilfield fires and failed America to come out of the Americanism which aspires to rule the world at the cost of its citizens,armies,economy,safety and security,peace,civic and human rights and the money paid by the taxpayers.
It is America`s war against terror which leads the world towards yet another crusade which is bound to end Dollar supremacy and the death of the superpower.
Just have some sympathy for the dying United States of America,already destroyed,US Economy may not survive yet another Oil War!
India has been replicating United States of America since Nehru.The agrarian economy has been destroyed to ensure free flow of foreign capital and the managers of the financial system opted for service killing the Welfare state,killing the constitution,killing the democracy and so on.Since the unipolar world became the reality,Indian rulers tried to convert the country into a complete foreign territory selling off the nation and national resources at the cost of the nature,environment and humanity.
India is an open market.
Much before the fall of USSR,still very much in the socialist mode of development Indian economy was linked to dollar. In fact,USSR was nothing but the unique only strategic partner of India during intensive cold war.The fall of USSR made India strategic partner of United States and Israel with Nato joined the group.Soon India became the prominent protagonist in America`s war against the terror.Soon India signed a nuclear treaty with America.
US federal bank is controlled by illuminati.
US federal Banks holds the key of the global economy as the dices around the globe move with federal policies.
For example,the fiscal and monetary policies of government of India or reserve Bank of India has no impact on global investors as they are guided by the global trends set by federal Bank of India.
Dollar linked economies has no way to get out of US alliance and thus,the world witnessed earlier US invasion and interference worldwide and most of the rulers opted to support USA banking on US economic interests tagged with hegemonial rule worldwide.
Since transfer of of power under continuous infinite bleeding the subcontinent,the geopolitics opted for hegemonial rule across political borders, there was no way out to escape the trap.
European community, in reality,is the first basic initiative to liberate the world ,the expanding US periphery.
Moreover, as US and UK both happen to chose the path destined to self destruction, we have to follow European community role in near future.
The shafron rulers in India seem to be quite aware of the shifting equation and wisely made Japan an alternative with strategic partnership.But Indian business interests are divested in US economy so much so that it is near impossible for Indian rulers to delink Indian economy with America.
Rather, India is all set to privatise Reserve Bank of India along with banking.
Hence,PM Modi has no option but to be defaulted in Kem Che America mode.
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Top diplomats vowed Monday to back the Iraqi government's fight against Islamic State but struggled to agree on concrete action, underscoring divisions among world powers over how to tackle the militant group.
A group of 26 countries—including the U.S., Saudi Arabia and Russia—pledged to support Baghdad's fight against the jihadist organization "by any means necessary, including appropriate military assistance."
French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius told reporters after an international conference on combating the militant group that discussions focused on ways to cut off funding to the group as well as how to stem the flow of foreign fighters to Syria and Iraq.
But the gathering failed to agree on any specific measures or on the scale of a possible military campaign, with Russia's top diplomat warning the U.S. and its allies against conducting airstrikes in Syria without the support of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.
"One cannot but feel concerned by publicly stated intentions to attack the (Islamic State) positions in Syria's territory without interaction with the Syrian government," Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said. "Syria, as well as Iran, are our natural allies in the fight," he added.
The Obama administration's plans to eradicate Islamic State are contingent upon Iraqi troops and Syrian rebels effectively using U.S.-led airstrikes to push back the terrorist organization from the territories it has captured, according to U.S. and Arab officials.
The question of whether a U.S.-led coalition has the legal basis to launch attacks in Syria without the backing of Damascus is delicate. Western countries such as the U.S. and France no longer recognize Mr. Assad as the legitimate leader of Syria, arguing that his regime has committed chemical weapons attacks against its own people. Instead, the U.S. has backed a fragile group of rebels, regarded by Western powers as moderate, that are fighting both the Assad regime and Islamic State militants.
"The fact that Bashar al-Assad was hastily declared 'illegitimate' more than three years ago has prevented a timely and adequate response to terrorist groups in Syria," Mr. Lavrov said.
In hosting the meeting, French President François Hollande sought to rally broad support for Syrian rebel groups.
"We must support those who can negotiate and make compromises necessary to preserve the future of Syria," Mr. Hollande said. "For France, that's the forces of democratic opposition. They must be supported by all means."
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War on Terror
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 Gen. Tommy Franks(CENTCOM commander 2001–2003) Gen. John Abizaid(CENTCOM commander 2003–2007) Adm. William J. Fallon(CENTCOM commander 2007–2008) Gen. David Petraeus(CENTCOM commander 2008–2010, ISAF commander 2010–2011) Gen. James Mattis(CENTCOM commander 2010–present) Gen. Dan K. McNeill(ISAF commander 2007–2008) Gen. David D. McKiernan (ISAF commander 2008–2009) Gen. Stanley A. McChrystal (ISAF commander 2009–2010) Gen. John R. Allen (ISAF commander 2011–present) Gen. Pervez Musharraf[note 2] Lt Gen. Ahmad Shuja Pasha (former DG ISI) Gen. Ashfaq Parvez Kayani (former army chief) Gen.Rashad Mahmood(current army chief)Lt Gen. Zaheerul Islam(DG ISI) |  Mohammed Omar Baitullah Mehsud † Mullah Dadullah † Osama bin Laden † Ayman al-Zawahiri Hakimullah Mehsud † Abu Musab al-Zarqawi † Abu Ayyub al-Masri † Anwar al-Awlaki † Moktar Ali Zubeyr † Nasir al-Wuhayshi Abu Musab Abdel Wadoud Jalaluddin Haqqani Sirajuddin Haqqani Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi | ||||||
The War on Terror (WOT), also known as the Global War on Terrorism (GWOT) is a term which has been applied to an international military campaign that started after the 11 September 2001 terrorist attacks on the United States.
This resulted in an international military campaign to eliminate al-Qaeda and other militant organizations. The United States and many other NATO and non-NATO nations such as Pakistan participated in the conflict.[3]
The phrase "War on Terror" was first used by U.S. PresidentGeorge W. Bush on 20 September 2001. The Bush administration and the western media have since used the term to argue a global military, political, lawful, and conceptual struggle against both organizations designated as terrorist in nature and regimes accused of supporting them. It was originally used with a particular focus on Muslim countries associated withIslamic terrorism organizations, like al-Qaeda or like-minded organizations.
Although the term is no longer officially used by the administration of U.S. President Barack Obama (which prefers the term Overseas Contingency Operation), it is still commonly used by politicians, in the media and in some official governmental aspects, as evident in the U.S. military's Global War on Terrorism Service Medal.
Contents
- 1 Etymology
- 2 Precursor to the 9/11 attacks
- 3 U.S. objectives
- 4 U.S. and NATO-led military operations
- 5 Other military operations
- 6 International military support
- 7 Al-Qaeda attacks and failed plots since 9/11
- 8 U.S. military aid to other countries
- 9 Post 9/11 events inside the United States
- 10 Casualties
- 11 Costs
- 12 Criticism
- 13 See also
- 14 Notes
- 15 References
- 16 External links
Etymology[edit]
The phrase "War on Terror" has been used to specifically refer to the ongoing military campaign led by the US, UK and their allies against organizations and regimes identified by them as terrorist, and excludes other independent counter-terrorist operations and campaigns such as those by Russia and India. The conflict has also been referred to by names other than the War on Terror. It has also been known as:
- World War III[4][5][6]
- World War IV[7][8][9] (assuming the Cold War was World War III)
- Bush's War on Terror[10][11][12]
- The Long War[13][14]
- The Global War of Terror[15][16][17]
- The War Against al-Qaeda[18][19]
History of the name[edit]
In 1984, the Reagan Administration used the term "war against terrorism" as part of an effort to pass legislation that was designed to freeze assets of terrorist groups and marshal the forces of government against them. Author Shane Harris asserts this was a reaction to the 1983 Beirut barracks bombing.[20]
The concept of America at war with terrorism may have begun on 11 September 2001 when Tom Brokaw, having just witnessed the collapse of one of the towers of the World Trade Center, declared "Terrorists have declared war on [America]."[21]
On 16 September 2001, at Camp David, President George W. Bush used the phrase war on terrorism in an unscripted and controversial comment when he said, "This crusade – this war on terrorism – is going to take a while, ... "[22] Bush later apologized for this remark due to the negative connotations the termcrusade has to people, e.g. of Muslim faith. The word crusadewas not used again.[23] On 20 September 2001, during a televised address to a joint session of congress, Bush stated that, "(o)ur 'war on terror' begins with al-Qaeda, but it does not end there. It will not end until every terrorist group of global reach has been found, stopped and defeated."[24] Bush did not say when he expected this would be achieved.
In April 2007 the British government announced publicly that it was abandoning the use of the phrase "War on Terror" as they found it to be less than helpful.[25] This was explained more recently by Lady Eliza Manningham-Buller. In her 2011 Reith lecture, the former head of MI5 said that the 9/11 attacks were "a crime, not an act of war." "So I never felt it helpful to refer to a war on terror."[26]
US President Barack Obama has rarely used the term, but in his inaugural address on 20 January 2009, he stated "Our nation is at war, against a far-reaching network of violence and hatred."[27] In March 2009 the Defense Department officially changed the name of operations from "Global War on Terror" to "Overseas Contingency Operation" (OCO).[28] In March 2009, the Obama administrationrequested that Pentagon staff members avoid use of the term, instead using "Overseas Contingency Operation".[28] Basic objectives of the Bush administration "war on terror", such as targeting al Qaeda and building international counterterrorism alliances, remain in place.[29][30] In December 2012, Jeh Johnson, the General Counsel of the Department of Defense, stated that the military fight will be replaced by a law enforcement operation when speaking at Oxford University,[31]predicting that al Qaeda will be so weakened to be ineffective, and has been "effectively destroyed", and thus the conflict will not be an armed conflict under international law.[32] In May 2013, Obama stated that the goal is "to dismantle specific networks of violent extremists that threaten America";[33] which coincided with the US Office of Management and Budget having changed the wording from "Overseas Contingency Operations" to "Countering Violent Extremism" in 2010.[34]
The rhetorical war on terror[edit]
Because the actions involved in the "war on terrorism" are diffuse, and the criteria for inclusion are unclear, political theorist Richard Jackson has argued that "the 'war on terrorism' therefore, is simultaneously a set of actual practices—wars, covert operations, agencies, and institutions—and an accompanying series of assumptions, beliefs, justifications, and narratives—it is an entire language or discourse."[35] Jackson cites among many examples a statement by John Ashcroft that "the attacks of September 11 drew a bright line of demarcation between the civil and the savage".[36] Administration officials also described "terrorists" as hateful, treacherous, barbarous, mad, twisted, perverted, without faith, parasitical, inhuman, and, most commonly, evil.[37] Americans, in contrast, were described as brave, loving, generous, strong, resourceful, heroic, and respectful of human rights.[38]
Both the term and the policies it denotes have been a source of ongoing controversy, as critics argue it has been used to justify unilateral preventive war, human rights abuses and other violations of international law.[39][40]
Precursor to the 9/11 attacks[edit]
The origins of al-Qaeda as a network inspiring terrorism around the world and training operatives can be traced to theSoviet war in Afghanistan (December 1979 – February 1989). The United States, United Kingdom, Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, and the People's Republic of China supported the Islamist mujahadeen guerillas against the military forces of the Soviet Union and the Democratic Republic of Afghanistan.[41] In May 1996 the group World Islamic Front for Jihad Against Jews and Crusaders (WIFJAJC), sponsored by Osama bin Laden (and later re-formed as al-Qaeda), started forming a large base of operations in Afghanistan, where the Islamist extremist regime of the Taliban had seized power earlier in the year.[42] In February 1998, Osama bin Laden signed a fatwā, as head of al-Qaeda, declaring war on the West and Israel,[43][44] later in May of that same year al-Qaeda released a video declaring war on the US and the West.[45][46]
Following the bombings of US embassies in Kenya and Tanzania,[47] US President Bill Clinton launched Operation Infinite Reach, a bombing campaign in Sudan and Afghanistan against targets the US asserted were associated with WIFJAJC,[48][49] although others have questioned whether a pharmaceutical plant in Sudan was used as a chemical warfare plant. The plant produced much of the region's antimalarial drugs[50] and around 50% of Sudan's pharmaceutical needs.[51]The strikes failed to kill any leaders of WIFJAJC or the Taliban.[50]
Next came the 2000 millennium attack plots, which included an attempted bombing of Los Angeles International Airport. In October 2000 the USS Cole bombing occurred, followed in 2001 by the 11 September 2001 attacks.[52]
U.S. objectives[edit]
The Authorization for Use of Military Force Against Terrorists or "AUMF" was made law on September 14, 2001, to authorize the use of United States Armed Forces against those responsible for the attacks on September 11, 2001. It authorized the President to use all necessary and appropriate force against those nations, organizations, or persons he determines planned, authorized, committed, or aided the terrorist attacks that occurred on September 11, 2001, or harbored such organizations or persons, in order to prevent any future acts of international terrorism against the United States by such nations, organizations or persons. Congress declares this is intended to constitute specific statutory authorization within the meaning of section 5(b) of the War Powers Resolution of 1973.
The George W. Bush administration defined the following objectives in the War on Terror:[53]
- Defeat terrorists such as Osama bin Laden, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi and demolish their organizations
- Identify, locate and demolish terrorists along with their organizations
- Deny sponsorship, support and sanctuary to terrorists
- End the state sponsorship of terrorism
- Establish and maintain an international standard of accountability with regard to combating terrorism
- Strengthen and sustain the international effort to combat terrorism
- Work with willing and able states
- Enable weak states
- Persuade reluctant states
- Compel unwilling states
- Interdict and disorder material support for terrorists
- Abolish terrorist sanctuaries and havens
- Diminish the underlying conditions that terrorists seek to exploit
- Partner with the international community to strengthen weak states and prevent (re)emergence of terrorism
- Win the war of ideals
- Defend US citizens and interests at home and abroad
- Integrate the National Strategy for Homeland Security
- Attain domain awareness
- Enhance measures to ensure the integrity, reliability, and availability of critical, physical, and information-based infrastructures at home and abroad
- Implement measures to protect US citizens abroad
- Ensure an integrated incident management capability
U.S. and NATO-led military operations[edit]
Operation Active Endeavour[edit]
Operation Active Endeavour is a naval operation of NATO started in October 2001 in response to the September 11 attacks. It operates in the Mediterranean and is designed to prevent the movement of militants or weapons of mass destruction and to enhance the security of shipping in general.[54] The operation has also assisted Greece with its prevention of illegal immigration.
Operation Enduring Freedom[edit]
Operation Enduring Freedom is the official name used by the Bush administration for the War in Afghanistan, together with three smaller military actions, under the umbrella of the Global War on Terror. These global operations are intended to seek out and destroy any al-Qaeda fighters or affiliates.
Operation Enduring Freedom – Afghanistan[edit]
On 20 September 2001, in the wake of the 11 September attacks, George W. Bush delivered an ultimatum to the Taliban government of Afghanistan to turn over Osama bin Laden and al-Qaeda leaders operating in the country or face attack.[24]The Taliban demanded evidence of bin Laden's link to the 11 September attacks and, if such evidence warranted a trial, they offered to handle such a trial in an Islamic Court.[55] The US refused to provide any evidence.
Subsequently, in October 2001, US forces (with UK and coalition allies) invaded Afghanistan to oust the Taliban regime. On 7 October 2001, the official invasion began with British and US forces conducting airstrike campaigns over enemy targets. Kabul, the capital city of Afghanistan, fell by mid-November. The remaining al-Qaeda and Taliban remnants fell back to the rugged mountains of eastern Afghanistan, mainly Tora Bora. In December, Coalition forces (the US and its allies)fought within that region. It is believed that Osama bin Laden escaped into Pakistan during the battle.[56][57]
In March 2002, the US and other NATO and non-NATO forces launched Operation Anaconda with the goal of destroying any remaining al-Qaeda and Taliban forces in the Shah-i-Kot Valley and Arma Mountains of Afghanistan. The Taliban suffered heavy casualties and evacuated the region.[58]
The Taliban regrouped in western Pakistan and began to unleash an insurgent-style offensive against Coalition forces in late 2002.[59] Throughout southern and eastern Afghanistan, firefights broke out between the surging Taliban and Coalition forces. Coalition forces responded with a series of military offensives and an increase in the amount of troops in Afghanistan. In February 2010, Coalition forces launchedOperation Moshtarak in southern Afghanistan along with other military offensives in the hopes that they would destroy the Taliban insurgency once and for all.[60] Peace talks are also underway between Taliban affiliated fighters and Coalition forces.[61] The United States and other NATO and non-NATO forces are planning towithdraw from Afghanistan by the end of 2014.[62]
Operation Enduring Freedom – Philippines[edit]
In January 2002, the United States Special Operations Command, Pacific deployed to the Philippines to advise and assist the Armed Forces of the Philippines in combating Filipino Islamist groups.[63] The operations were mainly focused on removing the Abu Sayyaf group and Jemaah Islamiyah (JI) from their stronghold on the island of Basilan.[64] The second portion of the operation was conducted as a humanitarian program called "Operation Smiles." The goal of the program was to provide medical care and services to the region of Basilan as part of a "Hearts and Minds" program.[65][66]
Operation Enduring Freedom – Horn of Africa[edit]
This extension of Operation Enduring Freedom was titled OEF-HOA. Unlike other operations contained in Operation Enduring Freedom, OEF-HOA does not have a specific organization as a target. OEF-HOA instead focuses its efforts to disrupt and detect militant activities in the region and to work with willing governments to prevent the reemergence of militant cells and activities.[67]
In October 2002, the Combined Joint Task Force - Horn of Africa (CJTF-HOA) was established in Djibouti at Camp Lemonnier.[68] It contains approximately 2,000 personnel including US military and special operations forces (SOF) and coalition force members, Combined Task Force 150 (CTF-150).
Task Force 150 consists of ships from a shifting group of nations, including Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Netherlands, Pakistan, New Zealand and the United Kingdom. The primary goal of the coalition forces is to monitor, inspect, board and stop suspected shipments from entering the Horn of Africa region and affecting the US' Operation Iraqi Freedom.
Included in the operation is the training of selected armed forces units of the countries of Djibouti, Kenya and Ethiopia in counter-terrorism andcounter-insurgency tactics. Humanitarian efforts conducted by CJTF-HOA include rebuilding of schools and medical clinics and providing medical services to those countries whose forces are being trained.
The program expands as part of the Trans-Saharan Counterterrorism Initiative as CJTF personnel also assist in training the armed forces ofChad, Niger, Mauritania and Mali. However, the War on Terror does not include Sudan, where over 400,000 have died in an ongoing civil war.
On 1 July 2006, a Web-posted message purportedly written by Osama bin Laden urged Somalis to build an Islamic state in the country and warned western governments that the al-Qaeda network would fight against them if they intervened there.[69]
Somalia has been considered a "failed state" because its official central government was weak, dominated by warlords and unable to exert effective control over the country. Beginning in mid-2006, the Islamic Courts Union (ICU), an Islamist faction campaigning on a restoration of "law and order" through Sharia law, had rapidly taken control of much of southern Somalia.
On 14 December 2006, the US Assistant Secretary of State Jendayi Frazer claimed al-Qaeda cell operatives were controlling the Islamic Courts Union, a claim denied by the ICU.[70]
By late 2006, the UN-backed Transitional Federal Government (TFG) of Somalia had seen its power effectively limited toBaidoa, while the Islamic Courts Union controlled the majority of southern Somalia, including the capital of Mogadishu. On 20 December 2006, the Islamic Courts Union launched an offensive on the government stronghold of Baidoa, and saw early gains before Ethiopia intervened in favor of the government.
By 26 December, the Islamic Courts Union retreated towards Mogadishu, before again retreating as TFG/Ethiopian troops neared, leaving them to take Mogadishu with no resistance. The ICU then fled to Kismayo, where they fought Ethiopian/TFG forces in the Battle of Jilib.
The Prime Minister of Somalia claimed that three "terror suspects" from the 1998 United States embassy bombings are being sheltered in Kismayo.[71] On 30 December 2006, al-Qaeda deputy leader Ayman al-Zawahiri called upon Muslims worldwide to fight against Ethiopia and the TFG in Somalia.[72]
On 8 January 2007, the US launched the Battle of Ras Kamboni by bombing Ras Kamboni using AC-130 gunships.[73]
On 14 September 2009, US Special Forces killed two men and wounded and captured two others near the Somali village ofBaarawe. Witnesses claim that helicopters used for the operation launched from French-flagged warships, but that could not be confirmed. A Somali based al-Qaida affiliated group, the Al-Shabaab, has confirmed the death of "sheik commander"Saleh Ali Saleh Nabhan along with an unspecified number of militants.[74] Nabhan, a Kenyan, was wanted in connection with the 2002 Mombasa attacks.[75]
Operation Enduring Freedom – Trans Sahara[edit]
Operation Enduring Freedom – Trans Sahara (OEF-TS) is the name of the military operation conducted by the US and partner nations in the Sahara/Sahel region of Africa, consisting of counter-terrorism efforts and policing of arms and drug trafficking across central Africa.
The conflict in northern Mali began in January 2012 with radical Islamists (affiliated to al-Qaeda) advancing into northern Mali. The Malian government had a hard time maintaining full control over their country. The fledgling government requested support from the international community on combating the Islamic militants. In January 2013, France intervened on behalf of the Malian government's request and deployed troops into the region. They launched Operation Servalon 11 January 2013, with the hopes of dislodging the al-Qaeda affiliated groups from northern Mali.[76]
Iraq[edit]
Iraq had been listed as a State sponsor of terrorism by the US since 1990,[77] whenSaddam Hussein invaded Kuwait. Iraq had also been on the list from 1979 to 1982; it was removed so that the US could provide material support to Iraq in its war with Iran. Hussein's regime had proven to be a problem for the UN and Iraq's neighbors due to its use of chemical weapons against Iranians and Kurds in the 1980s.
Iraqi no-fly zones[edit]
After the 1991 Gulf War, France, United Kingdom, United States and their allies instituted and began patrolling Iraqi no-fly zones, to protect Iraq's Kurdish minority and Shi'a Arab population—both of which suffered attacks from the Hussein regime before and after the Gulf War—in Iraq's northern and southern regions, respectively. US forces continued in combat zone deployments through November 1995 and launched Operation Desert Fox against Iraq in 1998 after it failed to meet US demands of "unconditional cooperation" in weapons inspections.[78]
In the aftermath of Operation Desert Fox, during December 1998, Iraq announced that it would no longer respect the no-fly zones and resumed its attempts to shoot down US aircraft.
Operation Iraqi Freedom[edit]
The Iraq War began in March 2003 with an air campaign, which was immediately followed by a U.S.-led ground invasion. The Bush administration stated the invasion was the "serious consequences" spoken of in the UNSC Resolution 1441, partially on the basis of Iraq possessing weapons of mass destruction. The Bush administration also stated the Iraq war was part of the War on Terror, something later questioned or contested.
Baghdad, Iraq's capital city, fell in April 2003 and Saddam Hussein's government quickly dissolved. On 1 May 2003, Bush announced that major combat operations in Iraq had ended.[79] However, an insurgency arose against the U.S.-led coalition and the newly developing Iraqi military and post-Saddam government. The insurgency, which included al-Qaeda affiliated groups, led to far more coalition casualties than the invasion. Other elements of the insurgency were led by fugitive members of President Hussein's Ba'ath regime, which included Iraqi nationalists and pan-Arabists. Many insurgency leaders are Islamists and claim to be fighting a religious war to reestablish the Islamic Caliphate of centuries past.[80] Iraq's former president, Saddam Hussein was captured by U.S. forces in December 2003. He was executed in 2006.
In 2004, the insurgent forces grew stronger. The US conducted attacks on insurgent strongholds in cities like Najaf and Fallujah.
In January 2007, President Bush presented a new strategy for Operation Iraqi Freedom based upon counter-insurgency theories and tactics developed by General David Petraeus. The Iraq War troop surge of 2007 was part of this "new way forward" and, along with US backing of Sunni groups it had previously sought to defeat, has been credited with a widely recognized dramatic decrease in violence by up to 80%.
Operation New Dawn[edit]
The war entered a new phase on 1 September 2010,[81] with the official end of US combat operations. The last U.S. troops exited Iraq on 18 December 2011.[82]
Other military operations[edit]
Fighting in Pakistan[edit]
Following the 11 September 2001 attacks, former President of Pakistan Pervez Musharraf sided with the US against the Taliban government in Afghanistan after an ultimatum by then US President George W. Bush. Musharraf agreed to give the US the use of three airbases for Operation Enduring Freedom. United States Secretary of State Colin Powell and other US administration officials met with Musharraf. On 19 September 2001, Musharraf addressed the people of Pakistan and stated that, while he opposed military tactics against the Taliban, Pakistan risked being endangered by an alliance of India and the US if it did not cooperate. In 2006, Musharraf testified that this stance was pressured by threats from the US, and revealed in his memoirs that he had "war-gamed" the United States as an adversary and decided that it would end in a loss for Pakistan.[83]
On 12 January 2002, Musharraf gave a speech against Islamic extremism. He unequivocally condemned all acts of terrorism and pledged to combat Islamic extremism and lawlessness within Pakistan itself. He stated that his government was committed to rooting out extremism and made it clear that the banned militant organizations would not be allowed to resurface under any new name. He said, "the recent decision to ban extremist groups promoting militancy was taken in the national interest after thorough consultations. It was not taken under any foreign influence".[84]
In 2002, the Musharraf-led government took a firm stand against the jihadi organizations and groups promoting extremism, and arrested Maulana Masood Azhar, head of the Jaish-e-Mohammed, and Hafiz Muhammad Saeed, chief of theLashkar-e-Taiba, and took dozens of activists into custody. An official ban was imposed on the groups on 12 January.[85] Later that year, the Saudi born Zayn al-Abidn Muhammed Hasayn Abu Zubaydah was arrested by Pakistani officials during a series of joint US-Pakistan raids. Zubaydah is said to have been a high-ranking al-Qaeda official with the title of operations chief and in charge of running al-Qaeda training camps.[86] Other prominent al-Qaeda members were arrested in the following two years, namely Ramzi bin al-Shibh, who is known to have been a financial backer of al-Qaeda operations, and Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, who at the time of his capture was the third highest-ranking official in al-Qaeda and had been directly in charge of the planning for the 11 September attacks.
In 2004, the Pakistan Army launched a campaign in the Federally Administered Tribal Areas of Pakistan's Waziristan region, sending in 80,000 troops. The goal of the conflict was to remove the al-Qaeda and Taliban forces in the region.
After the fall of the Taliban regime many members of the Taliban resistance fled to the Northern border region of Afghanistan and Pakistan where the Pakistani army had previously little control. With the logistics and air support of the United States, the Pakistani Army captured or killed numerous al-Qaeda operatives such as Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, wanted for his involvement in the USS Cole bombing, the Bojinka plot, and the killing of Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl.
The United States has carried out a campaign of Drone attacks on targets all over the Federally Administered Tribal Areas. However, the Pakistani Taliban still operates there. To this day it's estimated that 15 US soldiers were killed while fighting al-Qaeda and Taliban remnants in Pakistan since the War on Terror began.[87]
Osama bin Laden, the founder of al-Qaeda, was killed on 2 May 2011, during a raid conducted by the United States special operations forces in Abbottabad, Pakistan.[88]
Fighting in Yemen[edit]
The United States has also conducted a series of military strikes on al-Qaeda militants in Yemen since the War on Terror began.[89] Yemen has a weak central government and a powerful tribal system that leaves large lawless areas open for militant training and operations. Al-Qaida has a strong presence in the country.[90]
The US, in an effort to support Yemeni counter-terrorism efforts, has increased their military aid package to Yemen from less than $11 million in 2006 to more than $70 million in 2009, as well as providing up to $121 million for development over the next three years.[91]
Fighting in Kashmir[edit]
In a 'Letter to American People' written by Osama bin Laden in 2002, he stated that one of the reasons he was fighting America is because of its support of India on the Kashmir issue.[92][93] While on a trip to Delhi in 2002, U.S. Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld suggested that Al-Qaeda was active in Kashmir, though he did not have any hard evidence.[94][95] An investigation in 2002 unearthed evidence that Al-Qaeda and its affiliates were prospering in Pakistan-administered Kashmir with tacit approval of Pakistan's National Intelligence agency Inter-Services Intelligence.[96] A team of Special Air Service and Delta Force was sent into Indian-administered Kashmir in 2002 to hunt for Osama bin Laden after reports that he was being sheltered by the Kashmiri militant group Harkat-ul-Mujahideen.[97] U.S. officials believed that Al-Qaeda was helping organize a campaign of terror in Kashmir in order to provoke conflict between India and Pakistan. Fazlur Rehman Khalil, the leader of the Harkat-ul-Mujahideen, signed al-Qaeda's 1998 declaration of holy war, which called on Muslims to attack all Americans and their allies.[98] In 2006, Al-Qaeda claimed they had established a wing in Kashmir; this worried the Indian government.[99]Al-Qaeda has strong ties with the Kashmir militant groups Lashkar-e-Taiba and Jaish-e-Mohammed in Pakistan.[100] While on a visit to Pakistan in January 2010, U.S. Defense secretary Robert Gates stated that Al-Qaeda was seeking to destabilize the region and planning to provoke a nuclear war between India and Pakistan.[101]
In September 2009, a U.S. Drone strike reportedly killed Ilyas Kashmiri, who was the chief of Harkat-ul-Jihad al-Islami, a Kashmiri militant group associated with Al-Qaeda.[102][103] Kashmiri was described by Bruce Riedel as a 'prominent' Al-Qaeda member,[104] while others described him as the head of military operations for Al-Qaeda.[105] Waziristan had now become the new battlefield for Kashmiri militants, who were now fighting NATO in support of Al-Qaeda.[106] On 8 July 2012, Al-Badar Mujahideen, a breakaway faction of Kashmir centric terror group Hizbul Mujahideen, on conclusion of their two-day Shuhada Conference called for mobilisation of resources for continuation of jihad in Kashmir.[107]
Fighting against the Islamic State[edit]
In a major split in the ranks of Al Qaeda's organization, the Iraqi franchise, known as Al Qaeda in Iraq covertly invaded Syria and the Levant and began participating in the ongoing Syrian Civil War, gaining enough support and strength to re-invade Iraq's western provinces under the name of the ISIS, taking over much of the country in a blitzkrieg-like action and combining the Iraq insurgency and Syrian Civil War into a single conflict.[108] Due to their extreme brutality and a complete change in their overall ideology, Al Qaeda's core organization in Central Asia eventually denounced ISIS and directed their affiliates to cut off all ties with this organization.[109] Many analysts[who?] believe that because of this schism, Al Qaeda and ISIL is now in a competition to retain the title of the world's most powerful terrorist organization.[110]
The Obama administration began to reengage in Iraq with a series of airstrikes aimed at ISIS beginning on 10 August 2014.[111] On 9 September 2014 President Obama said that he had the authority he needed to take action to destroy the militant group known as the Islamic State (also known as ISIL) and thus did not require additional approval from Congress.[112] The following day on September 10, 2014 President Barack Obama made a televised speech about ISIL, which he stated "Our objective is clear: We will degrade, and ultimately destroy, [the Islamic State] through a comprehensive and sustained counterterrorism strategy,".[113] Obama has authorized the deployment of additional U.S. Forces into Iraq, as well as authorizing direct military operations against the Islamic State within Syria.[113]
International military support[edit]
The invasion of Afghanistan is seen to have been the first action of this war, and initially involved forces from the United States, the United Kingdom, and the AfghanNorthern Alliance. Since the initial invasion period, these forces were augmented by troops and aircraft from Australia, Canada, Denmark, France, Italy, Netherlands, New Zealand and Norway amongst others. In 2006, there were about 33,000 troops in Afghanistan.
On 12 September 2001, less than 24 hours after the 11 September attacks in New York City and Washington, D.C., NATO invoked Article 5 of the North Atlantic Treatyand declared the attacks to be an attack against all 19 NATO member countries. Australian Prime Minister John Howard also declared that Australia would invoke theANZUS Treaty along similar lines.[114]
In the following months, NATO took a wide range of measures to respond to the threat of terrorism. On 22 November 2002, the member states of the Euro-Atlantic Partnership Council (EAPC) decided on a Partnership Action Plan against Terrorism, which explicitly states, "EAPC States are committed to the protection and promotion of fundamental freedoms and human rights, as well as the rule of law, in combating terrorism."[115] NATO started naval operations in the Mediterranean Sea designed to prevent the movement of terrorists or weapons of mass destruction as well as to enhance the security of shipping in general called Operation Active Endeavour.
Support for the US cooled when America made clear its determination to invade Iraq in late 2002. Even so, many of the "coalition of the willing" countries that unconditionally supported the US-led military action have sent troops to Afghanistan, particular neighboring Pakistan, which has disowned its earlier support for the Taliban and contributed tens of thousands of soldiers to the conflict. Pakistan was also engaged in the War in North-West Pakistan (Waziristan War). Supported by US intelligence, Pakistan was attempting to remove the Taliban insurgency and al-Qaeda element from the northern tribal areas.[116]
International Security Assistance Force[edit]
December 2001 saw the creation of the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) to assist the Afghan Transitional Administration and the first post-Taliban elected government. With a renewed Taliban insurgency, it was announced in 2006 that ISAF would replace the US troops in the province as part of Operation Enduring Freedom.
The British 16th Air Assault Brigade (later reinforced by Royal Marines) formed the core of the force in southern Afghanistan, along with troops and helicopters from Australia, Canada and the Netherlands. The initial force consisted of roughly 3,300 British, 2,000 Canadian, 1,400 from the Netherlands and 240 from Australia, along with special forces from Denmark and Estonia and small contingents from other nations. The monthly supply of cargo containers through Pakistani route to ISAF in Afghanistan is over 4,000 costing around 12 billion in Pakistani Rupees.[117][118][119][120][121]
Al-Qaeda attacks and failed plots since 9/11[edit]
Since 9/11, Al-Qaeda and other affiliated radical Islamist groups have executed attacks in several parts of the world where the conflict is not taking place. Whereas countries like Pakistan have suffered hundreds of attacks killing tens of thousands and displacing many more.
- The 2002 Bali bombings in Indonesia were committed by various members of Jemaah Islamiyah, an organization linked to Al-Qaeda.
- The 2003 Casablanca bombings were carried out by Salafia Jihadia, an Al-Qaeda affiliate.
- After the 2003 Istanbul bombings, Turkey charged 74 people with involvement, including Syrian Al-Qaeda member Loai al-Saqa.
- The 2004 Madrid train bombings in Spain were "inspired by" Al-Qaeda, though no direct involvement has been established.
- The 7 July 2005 London bombings in the United Kingdom were perpetrated by 4 homegrown terrorists, one of whom appeared in an edited video with a known Al-Qaeda operative, though the British government denies Al-Qaeda involvement.
- Al Qaeda claimed responsibility for the 11 April 2007 Algiers bombings in Algeria.
- The 2007 Glasgow International Airport attack in the United Kingdom was carried out by a pair of bombers whose laptops and suicide notes included videos and speeches referencing Al-Qaeda, though no direct involvement was established.
- The 2009 Fort Hood shooting in the United States was committed by Nidal Malik Hasan, who had been in communication with Anwar al-Awlaki, though the Department of Defense classifies the shooting as an incidence of workplace violence.
- Morocco blames Al-Qaeda for the 2011 Marrakech bombing, though Al-Qaeda denies involvement.
- 2012 Toulouse and Montauban shootings in France were committed by Mohammed Merah, who reportedly had familial ties to Al-Qaeda, along with a history of petty crime and psychological issues. Merah claimed ties to Al-Qaeda, though French authorities deny any connection.
- To date, no one has been convicted for the 2012 U.S. Consulate attack in Benghazi in Libya and no one has claimed responsibility. Branches of Al-Qaeda, Al-Qaeda affiliates, and individuals "sympathetic to Al-Qaeda" are blamed.
There may also have been several additional planned attacks that were not successful.
- 2004 financial buildings plot (United States and the United Kingdom)
- 21 July 2005 London bombings (United Kingdom)
- 2006 Toronto terrorism plot (Canada)
- 2006 transatlantic aircraft plot involving liquid explosives carried onto commercial airplanes
- 2006 Hudson River bomb plot (United States)
- 2007 Fort Dix attack plot (United States)
- 2007 London car bombs (United Kingdom)
- 2007 John F. Kennedy International Airport attack plot (United States)
- 2009 Bronx terrorism plot (United States)
- 2009 New York Subway and United Kingdom Plot (United States and the United Kingdom)
- 2009 Christmas Bomb Plot (United States)
- 2010 Times Square car bombing attempt (United States)
- 2010 cargo plane bomb plot (United States)
- 2010 Portland car bomb plot (United States)
- 2011 Manhattan terrorism plot (United States)
- 2013 VIA Rail Canada terrorism plot (Canada)
U.S. military aid to other countries[edit]
- Pakistan
In the three years before the attacks of 11 September, Pakistan received approximately US$9 million in American military aid. In the three years after, the number increased to US$4.2 billion, making it the country with the maximum funding post 9/11.
Such a huge inflow of funds has raised concerns in the Indian press that these funds were given without any accountability, as the end uses not being documented, and that large portions were used to suppress civilians' human rights and to purchase weapons to contain domestic problems like the Balochistan unrest.
Post 9/11 events inside the United States[edit]
In addition to military efforts abroad, in the aftermath of 9/11 the Bush Administration increased domestic efforts to prevent future attacks. Various government bureaucracies that handled security and military functions were reorganized. A new cabinet-level agency called the United States Department of Homeland Security was created in November 2002 to lead and coordinate the largest reorganization of the US federal government since the consolidation of the armed forces into the Department of Defense.[citation needed]
The Justice Department launched the National Security Entry-Exit Registration System for certain male non-citizens in the US, requiring them to register in person at offices of theImmigration and Naturalization Service.
The USA PATRIOT Act of October 2001 dramatically reduces restrictions on law enforcement agencies' ability to search telephone, e-mail communications, medical, financial, and other records; eases restrictions on foreign intelligence gathering within the United States; expands the Secretary of the Treasury's authority to regulate financial transactions, particularly those involving foreign individuals and entities; and broadens the discretion of law enforcement and immigration authorities in detaining and deporting immigrants suspected of terrorism-related acts. The act also expanded the definition of terrorism to include domestic terrorism, thus enlarging the number of activities to which the USA PATRIOT Act's expanded law enforcement powers could be applied. A new Terrorist Finance Tracking Program monitored the movements of terrorists' financial resources (discontinued after being revealed by The New York Times). Global telecommunication usage, including those with no links to terrorism,[122] is being collected and monitored through the NSA electronic surveillance program. The Patriot Act is still in effect.
Political interest groups have stated that these laws remove important restrictions on governmental authority, and are a dangerous encroachment on civil liberties, possible unconstitutional violations of the Fourth Amendment. On 30 July 2003, the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) filed the first legal challenge against Section 215 of the Patriot Act, claiming that it allows the FBI to violate a citizen's First Amendment rights, Fourth Amendment rights, and right to due process, by granting the government the right to search a person's business, bookstore, and library records in a terrorist investigation, without disclosing to the individual that records were being searched.[123] Also, governing bodies in a number of communities have passed symbolic resolutions against the act.
In a speech on 9 June 2005, Bush said that the USA PATRIOT Act had been used to bring charges against more than 400 suspects, more than half of whom had been convicted. Meanwhile the ACLU quoted Justice Department figures showing that 7,000 people have complained of abuse of the Act.
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) began an initiative in early 2002 with the creation of the Total Information Awareness program, designed to promote information technologies that could be used in counter-terrorism. This program, facing criticism, has since been defunded by Congress.
By 2003, 12 major conventions and protocols were designed to combat terrorism. These were adopted and ratified by a number of states. These conventions require states to co-operate on principal issues regarding unlawful seizure of aircraft, the physical protection of nuclear materials, and the freezing of assets of militant networks.[124]
In 2005, the UN Security Council adopted Resolution 1624 concerning incitement to commit acts of terrorism and the obligations of countries to comply with international human rights laws.[125] Although both resolutions require mandatory annual reports on counter-terrorism activities by adopting nations, the United States and Israel have both declined to submit reports. In the same year, theUnited States Department of Defense and the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff issued a planning document, by the name "National Military Strategic Plan for the War on Terrorism", which stated that it constituted the "comprehensive military plan to prosecute the Global War on Terror for the Armed Forces of the United States...including the findings and recommendations of the 9/11 Commission and a rigorous examination with the Department of Defense".
On 9 January 2007, the House of Representatives passed a bill, by a vote of 299–128, enacting many of the recommendations of the 9/11 Commission The bill passed in the US Senate,[126] by a vote of 60–38, on 13 March 2007 and it was signed into law on 3 August 2007 by President Bush. It became Public Law 110-53. In July 2012, US Senate passed a resolution urging that the Haqqani Network be designated a foreign terrorist organisation.[127]
The Office of Strategic Influence was secretly created after 9/11 for the purpose of coordinating propaganda efforts, but was closed soon after being discovered. The Bush administration implemented the Continuity of Operations Plan (or Continuity of Government) to ensure that US government would be able to continue in catastrophic circumstances.
Since 9/11, extremists made various attempts to attack the United States, with varying levels of organization and skill. For example, vigilant passengers aboard a transatlantic flight prevented Richard Reid, in 2001, and Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, in 2009, from detonating an explosive device.
Other terrorist plots have been stopped by federal agencies using new legal powers and investigative tools, sometimes in cooperation with foreign governments.
Such thwarted attacks include:
- The 2001 shoe bomb plot
- A plan to crash airplanes into the US Bank Tower (aka Library Tower) in Los Angeles
- The 2003 plot by Iyman Faris to blow up the Brooklyn Bridge in New York City
- The 2004 Financial buildings plot, which targeted the International Monetary Fund and World Bank buildings in Washington, D.C., the New York Stock Exchange and other financial institutions
- The 2004 Columbus Shopping Mall Bombing Plot
- The 2006 Sears Tower plot
- The 2007 Fort Dix attack plot
- The 2007 John F. Kennedy International Airport attack plot
- The New York Subway Bombing Plot and 2010 Times Square car bombing attempt
The Obama administration has promised the closing of the Guantanamo Bay detention camp, increased the number of troops in Afghanistan, and promised the withdrawal of its troops from Iraq.
Casualties[edit]
According to Joshua Goldstein, an international relations professor from the American University, The Global War on Terror has seen fewer war deaths than any other decade in the past century.[128]
There is no widely agreed on figure for the number of people that have been killed so far in the War on Terror as it has been defined by the Bush Administration to include the war in Afghanistan, the war in Iraq, and operations elsewhere. Some estimates include the following:
- Iraq: 62,570 to 1,124,000
- Iraq Body Count project documented 110,937–121,227 civilian deaths from violence from March 2003 to December 2012.[129][130][131]
- 110,600 deaths in total according to the Associated Press from March 2003 to April 2009.[132]
- 151,000 deaths in total according to the Iraq Family Health Survey.[133]
- Opinion Research Business (ORB) poll conducted 12–19 August 2007 estimated 1,033,000 violent deaths due to the Iraq War. The range given was 946,000 to 1,120,000 deaths. A nationally representative sample of approximately 2,000 Iraqi adults answered whether any members of their household (living under their roof) were killed due to the Iraq War. 22% of the respondents had lost one or more household members. ORB reported that "48% died from a gunshot wound, 20% from the impact of a car bomb, 9% from aerial bombardment, 6% as a result of an accident and 6% from another blast/ordnance."[134][135][136]
- Between 392,979 and 942,636 estimated Iraqi (655,000 with a confidence interval of 95%), civilian and combatant, according to the second Lancet survey of mortality.
- A minimum of 62,570 civilian deaths reported in the mass media up to 28 April 2007 according to Iraq Body Count project.[137]
- 4,409 US military dead (929 non-hostile deaths), and 31,926 wounded in action during Operation Iraqi Freedom.[138]66 US Military dead (28 non-hostile deaths), and 295 wounded in action during Operation New Dawn.[138]
- Afghanistan: between 10,960 and 49,600
- 16,725–19,013 civilians killed according to Cost of War project from 2001 to 2013[139]
- According to Marc W. Herold's extensive database,[140] between 3,100 and 3,600 civilians were directly killed by USOperation Enduring Freedom bombing and Special Forces attacks between 7 October 2001 and 3 June 2003. This estimate counts only "impact deaths"—deaths that occurred in the immediate aftermath of an explosion or shooting—and does not count deaths that occurred later as a result of injuries sustained, or deaths that occurred as an indirect consequence of the US airstrikes and invasion.
- In an opinion article published in August 2002 in the magazine The Weekly Standard, Joshua Muravchik of theAmerican Enterprise Institute,[141] questioned Professor Herold's study entirely on the basis of one single incident that involved 25–93 deaths. He did not provide any estimate his own.[142]
- In a pair of January 2002 studies, Carl Conetta of the Project on Defense Alternatives estimates that "at least" 4,200–4,500 civilians were killed by mid-January 2002 as a result of the war and Coalition airstrikes, both directly as casualties of the aerial bombing campaign, and indirectly in the resulting humanitarian crisis.
- His first study, "Operation Enduring Freedom: Why a Higher Rate of Civilian Bombing Casualties?",[143] released 18 January 2002, estimates that, at the low end, "at least" 1,000–1,300 civilians were directly killed in the aerial bombing campaign in just the 3 months between 7 October 2001 to 1 January 2002. The author found it impossible to provide an upper-end estimate to direct civilian casualties from the Operation Enduring Freedom bombing campaign that he noted as having an increased use of cluster bombs.[144] In this lower-end estimate, only Western press sources were used for hard numbers, while heavy "reduction factors" were applied to Afghan government reports so that their estimates were reduced by as much as 75%.[145]
- In his companion study, "Strange Victory: A critical appraisal of Operation Enduring Freedom and the Afghanistan war",[146] released 30 January 2002, Conetta estimates that "at least" 3,200 more Afghans died by mid-January 2002, of "starvation, exposure, associated illnesses, or injury sustained while in flight from war zones", as a result of the war and Coalition airstrikes.
- In similar numbers, a Los Angeles Times review of US, British, and Pakistani newspapers and international wire services found that between 1,067 and 1,201 direct civilian deaths were reported by those news organizations during the five months from 7 October 2001 to 28 February 2002. This review excluded all civilian deaths in Afghanistan that did not get reported by US, British, or Pakistani news, excluded 497 deaths that did get reported in US, British, and Pakistani news but that were not specifically identified as civilian or military, and excluded 754 civilian deaths that were reported by the Taliban but not independently confirmed.[147]
- According to Jonathan Steele of The Guardian between 20,000 and 49,600 people may have died of the consequences of the invasion by the spring of 2002.[148]
- 2,046 US military dead (339 non-hostile deaths), and 18,201 wounded in action.[138]
- Pakistan: Between 1467 and 2334 people were killed in U.S. drone attacks as of 6 May 2011. tens of thousands have been killed by terrorist attacks, millions displaced.
- Somalia: 7,000+
- In December 2007, The Elman Peace and Human Rights Organization said it had verified 6,500 civilian deaths, 8,516 people wounded, and 1.5 million displaced from homes in Mogadishu alone during the year 2007.[149]
- USA
- 1 June 2009, Pvt. William Andrew Long was shot and killed by Abdulhakim Muhammad, while outside a recruiting facility in Little Rock AR.[150][151]
- On 5 November 2009, Nidal Malik Hasan shot and killed 13 people and wounded more than 30 others in Fort Hood, Texas.[152]
Total American casualties from the War on Terror
(this includes fighting throughout the world):
| US Military killed | 6,639[138] |
| US Military wounded | 50,422[138] |
| US DoD Civilians killed | 16[138] |
| US Civilians killed (includes 9/11 and after) | 3,000 + |
| US Civilians wounded/injured | 6,000 + |
| Total Americans killed (military and civilian) | 9,655 + |
| Total Americans wounded/injured | 56,422 + |
| Total American casualties | 66,077 + |
The United States Department of Veterans Affairs has diagnosed more than 200,000 American veterans with PTSD since 2001.[158]
- Yemen
Costs[edit]
A March 2011 Congressional report[159] estimated spending related to the war through fiscal year 2011 at $1.2 trillion, and that spending through 2021 assuming a reduction to 45,000 troops would be $1.8 trillion. A June 2011 academic report[159]covering additional areas of spending related to the war estimated it through 2011 at $2.7 trillion, and long term spending at $5.4 trillion including interest.[note 3]
| Expense | CRS/CBO (Billions US$):[160][161][162] | Watson (Billions constantUS$):[163] |
| FY2001-FY2011 | ||
| War appropriations to DoD | 1208.1 | 1311.5 |
| War appropriations to DoS/USAid | 66.7 | 74.2 |
| VA medical | 8.4 | 13.7 |
| VA disability | 18.9 | |
| Interest paid on DoD war appropriations | 185.4 | |
| Additions to DoD base spending | 362.2-652.4 | |
| Additions to Homeland Security base spending | 401.2 | |
| Social costs to veterans and military families to date | 295-400 | |
| Subtotal: | 1283.2 | 2662.1-3057.3 |
| FY2012-future | ||
| FY2012 DoD request | 118.4 | |
| FY2012 DoS/USAid request | 12.1 | |
| Projected 2013–2015 war spending | 168.6 | |
| Projected 2016–2020 war spending | 155 | |
| Projected obligations for veterans' care to 2051 | 589-934 | |
| Additional interest payments to 2020 | 1000 | |
| Subtotal: | 454.1 | 2043.1-2388.1 |
| Total: | 1737.3 | 4705.2-5445.4 |
Criticism[edit]
Criticism of the War on Terror addresses the issues, morality, efficiency, economics, and other questions surrounding the War on Terror and made against the phrase itself, calling it a misnomer. The notion of a "war" against "terrorism" has proven highly contentious, with critics charging that it has been exploited by participating governments to pursue long-standing policy / military objectives,[164] reduce civil liberties,[165] and infringe upon human rights. It is argued that the term war is not appropriate in this context (as in War on Drugs), since there is no identifiable enemy, and that it is unlikely international terrorism can be brought to an end by military means.[166]
Other critics, such as Francis Fukuyama, note that "terrorism" is not an enemy, but a tactic; calling it a "war on terror", obscures differences between conflicts such as anti-occupation insurgents and international mujahideen. With a military presence in Iraq and Afghanistan and its associated collateral damage Shirley Williams maintains this increases resentment and terrorist threats against the West.[167] There is also perceived U.S. hypocrisy,[168] media induced hysteria,[169] and that differences in foreign and security policy have damaged America's image in most of the world.[170]
See also[edit]
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- Attacks on U.S consulate in Karachi
- Axis of evil
- Bush Doctrine
- Foreign policy of the United States
- Iran and state-sponsored terrorism
- List of military operations in the War in Afghanistan (2001–present)
- Pakistan–United States relations
- Saudi Arabia and terrorism
- State Sponsors of Terrorism
- Targeted killing
- Timeline of the War on Terror
- Timeline of United States military operations
- United States and state terrorism
Notes[edit]
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Bibliography[edit]
- Jackson, Richard. Writing the War on Terrorism: Language, Politics and Counter-Terrorism. Manchester & New York: Manchester University Press, 2005. ISBN 0719071216.
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