International terror policies
Introduction
A good example of terror attack where intelligence failure occurred is the September 11th attacks in the US. This involved four well coordinated terror attacks by the Islamic al-Qaeda group against the Americans in September 11 2001. The al-Qaeda group hijacked four passenger planes in order to make them commit suicide terror attacks. Two of the American planes were crashed in the north and south American towers based in the world trade center located in the New York City. In a period of two hours the two towers were brought down and a huge fire emerged causing harm to the building in the WCT. The third plane was crashed at the defense headquarters based in the pentagon building thereby causing massive destruction on the western side. The fourth plane which was targeted to cause destruction to Washington DC crashed close to Shanksville after a struggle between passengers and the Islamic terrorists. More than three thousand people lost their lives in the well organized terror attacks inclusive of most passengers and the 19 suicide attackers. The leader of al-Qaida finalized that the attacks were carried out by his team suggesting that US support by Israel was the key reason for the attacks. The essay will describe various actions taken by the government and security agencies in combating terror activities.
The September attacks made it a concern for improvement in the global intelligence community. The government terror policies should ensure that valid commissions as well as improvements in the intelligence unit in America have taken place in an organized manner where data and necessary information is well maintained and managed (D'Anieri, 2011). The US intelligence agency was involved in political scandals especially involving presidency which made it possible for the agency to fail in prevention of the September attacks. The current government is aimed at combating terror since it is not involved in politicizing security agencies. The rivalry between agencies was also a contributing factor to failure of the prevention of the deadly attacks. Intelligence agencies are politicized which contributes to their failures as seen from the September attacks (The 9/11 Commission Report, 2004). Intelligence agencies should respect ethic standards and avoid political influence if success in prevention of attacks is to be achieved. The Federal Bureau of Investigations is entitled to deal with law enforcement matters where it should investigate crimes and solve them which is supported by the government. This did not happen in the September attacks which American intelligence agencies should learn from and avoid political influence. Cooperation and team work should be the key factor to success in combating attacks where secret data should be shared even to the public. The intelligent agencies as well as special government forces should cooperate as one way of hunting down terror attackers globally as one way of ending further attacks (The 9/11 Commission Report, 2004). The director of central intelligence community was the advisor to the president and overall head of US intelligence community but did not manage the intelligence community as expected. This impacted a failure of the intelligence community which symbolized that the overall head should not be politically influenced if success in crime prevention is to be achieved.
Government use of Intelligence analysis process and training offered
In defining the intelligence analysis process one should first collect the problem experienced by intelligence community. This should be followed by identifying problems the intelligence community is facing for example that of terror attacks. Terror attacks are the most rampant especially in the US between the national army and security agencies and Islamic terror attackers (D'Anieri, 2011). After the problem has been identified a hypothesis should be created in order to come with ways of solving the problem and actually know the people involved in the attacks. The next process is collecting the information. The intelligence community collects information from its various branches and security agents in order to come up with ways of preventing further attacks (D'Anier, 2011). Modern technology should be employed here in order to get information at the right time and in a convenient manner. For example in September attacks the intelligence community was able to collect information on time in order to prevent future occurrence of such deadly attacks. The next process is evaluation of the hypothesis as a way of finding ways in order to prevent attacks. This involved generation of another security intelligence agency which was not politically influenced like the one which was present during the September attacks. Two rivalry agencies were given new responsibilities in order to enhance cooperation and unity in preventing more attacks. The last process is selecting the most influential factors in ending the attacks locally and internationally. The intelligence community should be highly trained in order to maintain peace both locally and in international affairs (Gert, 2002). Proper training using modern technology should be enhanced by the governments. Modern weapons and machinery should be provided in order to put off attacks.
Conclusion
From the above point of view, terror attacks are mainly caused by political influence, lack of resources and poor communication which have been addressed since the terror attack of September 11 2001 where more than 3000 innocent people were killed. The intelligence community should be well trained and provided with modern technology in order to put off the attacks. International as well as regional cooperation should be maintained in order to solve the issue of frequent terror attacks.
References
Gertz, Bill. Breakdown: How America's Intelligence Failures Led to September 11. Washington, D.C: Regnery Pub., Inc, 2002. Internet resource
D'Anieri, Paul J. International Relations: Power and Purpose in Global Affairs. Boston, MA: Wadsworth/Cengage Learning, 2011. Print
The 9/11 Commission Report: Final Report of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States. New York: Norton, 2004. Print
