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Hazard and Vulnerability Analysis

9 /11 AND DISASTER PREPAREDNESS

September 11 Terrorist Attacks and Americans ' Preparedness for Disaster

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The September 11 , 2001 terrorist strikes on the Pentagon and the World Trade Center were arguably the heaviest attacks on the U .S . soil since the Pearl Harbor attack by the Japanese in 1941 . The attacks masterminded from one of the poorest countries in the world , shook the core of the world richest and most powerful nation . Many Americans still believe that the colossal intelligence machinery failed to intercept

the hits , even when it had sufficient evidence that an attack was looming (Betts , 2008 . The U .S . intelligence community missed or chose to overlook some of the strongest indicators of the imminent attack

Some of the pilots who launched the attacks trained in the U .S . In June 2001 , a detective observed that flight schools in Arizona were populated by an inordinate number of individuals of investigative interest (Betts , 2008 . Having learnt earlier that the Al-Qaeda was planning to launch plane operations ' the FBI missed to connect the imminent operations and the suspect flying students (National Commission on Terrorists Attacks Upon the United States , 2004 . The former students were part of the 9 /11 strike team (Marquise , 2008

One of the plotters of the 9 /11 strikes , Ramzi Yousef (a Pakistani ) had been arrested in the Philippines where he planned to down 11 airliners in 1995 . He escaped and fled to Pakistan . His partner told the police that he planned to...

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