U.S. State Department list of Foreign Terrorist Organizations

September 11, 2001, the American people and all government leadership realized that the U.S. was fight a whole new other type of war. The U.S. has dealt with foreign terrorist networks abroad and the 1993 World Trade Center bombings. With the tragic event of 9/11, it became something of a nightmare because no American in history had the knowledge to deal with this kind of attack. Foreign Terrorist Organizations (FTO) wants nothing more than to destroy America and the threat of another attack is imminent

Abu Sayyaf is still a big threat to the United States, it has roughly 200-500 members based out of the southern Philippines. Here in the United States the FBI is still tracking 3 of the main organizers of the Abu Sayyaf organization and the organization has made comments that have stated they want to fight the United States and it is strongly believed that given the opportunity although they are a small organization they will in fact take a huge leap at harming American citizens by means of bombing

effective influential power in Syria holding itself as a threat to anyone who opposes their ideologies. Successfully gaining strategic land in the North, West and Southern regions of Syria they have gain multiple attention being labeled as a foreign terrorist organization from the international community. Al-Nusra has establish a strong presence in locations like Idlib and Aleppo as well as controlling the Bab al-Hawa border crossing from Syria to Turkey. Allowing al-Nusra to control these major areas creates

has been a serious problem for several years. The main contributors to this issue are the Islamic extremist and Muslim purist organization, Boko Haram. According to Religion Today, over 3000 people have been killed since Boko Haram began it’s insurgency. Murders and jihads are a regular occurrence in Nigeria, with new reports seemingly coming out every day of another terrorist attack or mass shooting. With government being unsupportive of Christians and the constant persecution by extremists, the outlook

were received to run in the marathon. With such a large amount of people attending this you can see why it would be important for a terrorists to plot an attack, such an attack would devastate and scare not only people around the Boston area but nationwide. Two brothers by the name of Dzhokhar and Tamerlan Tsarnaev were affiliated with a foreign terrorist organization that has roots in Chechnya, had planted two bombs near the finish line at the

b. United States’ Efforts Since September 11th, there has been significant interest in terrorist funding, more specifically the moving of money through charities and charitable donations. After the attacks, the U.S. Treasury Department was primarily focused on the freezing of assets, with U.S. policy being “starving the terrorists of funding and shutting down the institutions that support or facilitate terrorism.” It was already illegal to provide or collect funds for acts of terrorism or to

cross our minds. On September 11, 2001, this mere thought became the reality for many families. The eleventh of September will forever be remembered as the date a terrorist organization, known as al-Qaeda, attacked the United States killing thousands of innocent people. The al-Qaeda organization have exposed vulnerabilities in the United States’ homeland security. Many have questioned how could this happen to a country known to be the most powerful nation in the world and what steps are being taken to

“The Division of Foreign Assets Control was established in the Office of International Finance by a Treasury Department order in 1950, after People 's Republic of China entered the Korean War. On October 15, 1962, through a Treasury Department order, the Division of Foreign Assets Control became the Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC). ” The U.S. Department of the Treasury started administering the US economic sanctions against foreign states with the War against Britain in 1812, where Secretary

and benefits of the five different intelligence community agencies that operate under their own instruction and training, but serves as the same purpose of defending the United States of America. The five different intelligence agencies are the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), Department of Homeland Security, U.S. Navy Intelligence, Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), and the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). The five intelligence communities have different purposes in defending our country

the president affecting the United States laws of federal terrorism. The titles and subject issues were composed to better enforce the procedures for any future terrorist’s attacks. The Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act established the Director of National Intelligence, the National Counterterrorism Center, and the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board. This act also states that the Homeland Security is to take charge of flights both foreign and domestic for all information on