GLOBAL WAR ON TERROR

1. GLOBAL WAR ON TERROR

2. OVERVIEW • The War Against Terrorism • Four Hijacked Commercial Airliners • Protecting America

3. THE WAR AGAINST TERRORISM • Different Kind of War • Asymmetric warfare • Seize assets and disrupt fundraising pipelines • President Bush • Put world on notice that any nation harboringor supporting terrorism is hostile • Fatwa lists three "crimes and sins" committed by the Americans: • U.S. military occupation of the Arabian Peninsula • U.S. aggression against the Iraqi people • U.S. support of Israel

4. FOUR HIJACKED COMMERCIAL AIRLINERS • Hijacked • 19 terrorists, 4 airliners • Nationwide “groundstop” by FAA • All planes in air to land at nearest airport • All overseas flights rerouted to Canada • All international civilian air traffic was banned from landing on US soil for three days • 2,973 fatalities, 19 hijackers: 246 on the 4 planes • 27 members of al-Qaeda attempted to enter the US, but only 19 participated • The same day, the NSA and German Intelligence agencies intercepted communications that pointed to Osama bin Laden

5. World Trade Center (WTC)Twin Towers • 2,602 in New York City in the towers and on the ground, 80 countries • 343 Firefighters • 23 NYPD officers • 37 Port Authority officers • 24 Missing • Over 1,600 bodies identified • "about 10,000 unidentified boneand tissue fragments that cannotbe matched to the list of the dead“ • Bone fragments were still beingfound in 2006 • 40 was average age of dead • 8 children, all on airliners • S. Tower: 56 minutes • N. Tower: 102 minutes

6. World Trade Center (WTC)Twin Towers • In addition to the 110-floor Twin Towers of the World Trade Center, 27 buildings were damaged and all 7 buildings of the WTC Complex had to be razed

7. FOUR HIJACKED COMMERCIAL AIRLINES • The Pentagon • 125 Fatalities • Lieutenant General Timothy Maude • A portion of the Pentagon was severely damagedby fire and one section of the building collapsed

8. FOUR HIJACKED COMMERCIAL AIRLINES • Western Pennsylvania • Black Box recordings revealed the crew and passengers attempted to seize control of the plane from the hijackers after learning through phone calls that similarly hijacked planes had been crashed into buildings that morning • One of the hijackers gave the order to roll the plane once it became evident that they would lose control of the plane to the passengers • Soon afterward, the aircraft crashed into a field

9. PROTECTING AMERICA • Coalition Forces • Began building coalition 12 Sept • Different countries support in different ways • Intelligence, personnel, equipment, liaison teams, bases, over-flight permission, humanitarian assistance • Homeland Security • Created 8 Oct 2001 • Develop/coordinate comprehensivenational strategy to secureU.S. from terrorism • Coordinates detection, preparation, prevention, protection, response and recovery • Airline security standards, expanded federal air marshal program

10. PROTECTING AMERICA • Military Operations (Afghanistan) • 7 Oct 2001 • Air strikes; B-1s, B-2s, and B-52s; F-14s, F/A-18s and TLAMs (U.S. and British ships and submarines) • Terrorist training camps/infrastructure, al Qaeda leaders, terrorist activities • 68 nations; 27 w/ representatives at CENTCOM HQ • Taliban 80%, Anti-Taliban 20% • Oct to mid-March • Terrorist Finances • Freezing assets, closed financial networks • Conclusion • “May you live in interesting times.” • Often peace at the point of a bayonet; Kosovo, Bosnia, Macedonia • Almost certain guarantee of “interesting times”

11. CONCLUSION • The War Against Terrorism • Four Hijacked Commercial Airliners • Protecting America