Terrorism attacks Name Institution affiliation Introduction Terrorism is one of the most critical areas that the homeland security deals with. Two of such memorably devastating attacks hit the US in the year 2001 and hit the American people to the core. The September 11 attack entailed bombing and the bombers hijacked jets bound for New York and crashed the World Trade Centre based in New York (Federal Emergency Agency 2004). In October 5th, an American launched a biological hazard, anthrax, which he spread through postal mail contamination mechanism. Here, terrorists mailed several letters containing the ‘Bacillus anthracis (anthrax) to Senators Patrick Leahy and Thomas Daschle and to Members of the media in New York City and Boca Raton, Florida’ (Weicker, 2011). The homeland security and the FBI(Federal bureau of investigations) took over the survey while the response teams launched disaster management strategies to hinder further spreading of threats. The 2011 anthrax an...
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