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A 4 page paper which examines media coverage in order to reveal in what ways it assisted law enforcement and in what ways it may have aided the terrorists, and then analyzes three major sources of terrorism in the Middle East. Bibliography lists 6 sources.
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File: TG15_TGterrorsm.rtf
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the planners of the 1993 attacks on the World Trade Center as a result of the intense media coverage was responsible for inspiring the devastating attacks that claimed more than
3,000 lives eight years later (Oberg 21A). According to Khalid, the media sets a global stage for a mass "theater of destruction" that motivates terrorists to commit progressively more
heinous acts (Oberg 21A). The round-the-clock media coverage of the attacks in New York City, Washington DC, and the crash of Flight 93 in Pennsylvania provided the public with
constantly-updated details on the tragedy and also offered invaluable information that greatly assisted law enforcement officials. The coverage, which traced the terrorist networks of Osama bin Ladens Al Qaeda
that stretched from the Middle East into several cities in the United States, revealed names of suspects and locations. As a result, law enforcement personnel learned that some of
the hijackers had received flight training at Floridas Pensacola Naval Air Station and had infiltrated other military training facilities (Gugliotta and Fallis A29). Civilian witnesses came forward and assisted
investigators with positive hijacker identification based upon photographs, sketches, and video footage contained in initial press reports (Gugliotta and Fallis A29). Mohamed Atta was also positively identified as a
hijacker after his New England whereabouts were reported. The manager of a Wal-Mart in Maine came forward and produced a surveillance tape of Atta and another hijacker buying duct
tape and other supplies at approximately 10:30 p.m. on Monday, September 10. Incriminating evidence surfaced shortly thereafter at Bostons Logan Airport (Gugliotta and Fallis A29). But it
was not only police and investigators that were watching television and reading newspapers. While the media saturation undoubtedly assisted in law enforcement, it may well have also aided the
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