In the US in the wake of 9 / 11, the Terrorism Risk Insurance Act 2002 ( TRIA ) set up a federal Program providing a transparent system of shared public and private compensation for insured losses resulting from acts of terrorism.

* 2001 – War on Terrorism: In the first such act since World War II, US President George W. Bush signs an executive order allowing military tribunals against foreigners suspected of connections to terrorist acts or planned acts on the United States.

This is an " SF satire on the Middle East crisis and the War on Terrorism, and concerns what happens when the liberal Western Galactic Empire relocates the oppressed Minervan sect to their ancient homeland of Kennewick, Washington, in the midst of a US ruled by Christian fundamentalist fanatics .".

In a US bid to open full diplomatic relations with Iraq, the country was removed from the US list of State Sponsors of Terrorism.

In the War on Terrorism in Yemen, the US government describes Yemen as " an important partner in the global war on terrorism ".

Although Koizumi's foreign policy was focused on closer relations with the United States and UN-centered diplomacy, which were adopted by all of his predecessors, he went further to pursue supporting the US policies in the War on Terrorism.

These attacks, as well as similar incidents that caused the Southern Poverty Law Center to declare in 2002 that the animal rights movement had " clearly taken a turn toward the more extreme ," this prompted the US government to pass the Animal Enterprise Terrorism Act and the UK government to add the offense of " Intimidation of persons connected with animal research organisation " to the Serious Organised Crime and Police Act 2005.

* US President George W. Bush holds a live, televised press conference on the latest developments in the War on Terrorism, the situation with North Korea and the standoff with Iraq.

The supporters were calling for the invading troops to move out of Iraq, for the US to not attack Iran and Syria, for the UK government to halt reductions in the civil liberties of UK citizens including the right to protest and a free trial ( which they allege would result from the recent Prevention of Terrorism Act 2005 and Serious Organised Crime and Police Act 2005 ), and for a reduction in racism in the UK.

* War on Terrorism – Canal Hotel: US officials comment terror group linked to al Qaeda, Ansar al-Islam, is emerging as a top suspect in the U. N. headquarters bombing in Baghdad.

In 2010 The FBI were criticized in US Justice Department reports for unjustified surveillance ( and placement on the Terrorism Watchlist ) between 2001 and 2006 of members of Animal Rights groups such as Greenpeace and PETA.

* State Sponsors of Terrorism, US Department of State, accessed 10-2006.

Some militant Islamist forces have been implicated in terrorism and have become targets in a series of military initiatives justified by the US rhetoric of " War on Terrorism ", which has been adopted by Russia, Israel and other countries.

This was a quite different rhetoric, a more pragmatic one likely reflecting the reality that the ex-Soviet republics of Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan, Azerbaijan had substantial Islamic political movements-similar to those in Turkey and Pakistan, relatively modern in tone and willing to participate in the US War on Terrorism to some degree, although not as direct combatants.

The US has recently ( in the past few years ) accelerated its use of UCAVs in Pakistan as part of the War on Terrorism.

Dahduli was affiliated with the Illinois-based Islamic Association for Palestine, suspect at one time of being a Hamas front organization, and the commercial web-hosting service InfoCom Corporation which would later be raided by the US Joint Terrorism Task Force.

Although generally supportive of the CIA and its mission, he has also been outspoken in his criticism of US actions in the War on Terrorism.

In March 2003, a provisional arrest warrant was issued calling him a " material witness ", and he was subsequently listed by the U. S. Federal Bureau of Investigation ( FBI ) on the Seeking Information-War on Terrorism list, and since then United States Department of State, through the Rewards for Justice Program, has offered a bounty of up to US $ 5 million for information about his location.

* War on Terrorism: In the first such act since World War II, US President George W. Bush signs an executive order allowing military tribunals against any foreigners suspected of having connections to terrorist acts or planned acts on the United States.

As the former US President George W. Bush declared " war on terror ", German helped to found the Stop the War Coalition, which was established to oppose what later became known as the War on Terrorism.

The USAF Special Operations School ( USAFSOS ) trains US Air Force, Army, Navy, Marine Corps, Coast Guard and US government civilian personnel in a variety of courses, including courses in Dynamics of International Terrorism, and the Middle East Orientation Course.

However, guitarist Brian Latta left the band in late 1998, ushering in new guitarist “ Sparky ” Voyles, and in 1999 the band embarked on their first headlining tour of the US, over three weeks dubbed the " Underground Terrorism " tour.

* US Army Area Handbook for the Republic of Sudan, Dept of the Army Pamphlet No 550-27, Second Edition, 1964

* May 21 – The US State Department releases a report naming 7 state sponsors of terrorism: Iran, Iraq, Cuba, Libya, North Korea, Sudan, and Syria.

* Lopez Lomong ( 1983 – ), US Olympic Team track runner 2008, 2012 and one of the Lost Boys of the Sudan

Unlike the other three designated sponsors of terrorism, the US State Department acknowledges that Sudan has fully cooperated with the United States to reduce the threat of terrorism.

However, citing concerns that the nation's security gaps have allowed terrorists to remain in the country, the US State Department decided to keep Sudan on the list in 2011.

During that year, the Government of Sudan worked actively to counter AQ operations that posed a potential threat to US interests and personnel in Sudan.

* Example: US President Bill Clinton's cruise missile strikes on Afghanistan and Sudan in August 1998 has been suggested as a means to distract attention from the Monica Lewinsky affair.

Based on their field-based knowledge of humanitarian emergencies, they successfully challenge policy makers and aid agencies to improve the lives of displaced people around the world and frequently defend the strategic benefits of a continuation of US funding for foreign aid most recently in the 2011 budget debates. They currently focus their work on Iraq, South Sudan, Sudan, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Democratic Republic of Congo, Somalia, Libya, Burma, Haiti and Colombia.

* 1982-1983 MajGen Scott Gration USAF ( Ret ) US Special Envoy to Sudan

Notable faculty members at the Walsh School of Foreign Service include former US Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, former Undersecretary of Defense Douglas Feith, former Polish President Aleksander Kwaśniewski, former National Security Advisor Anthony Lake, Ambassador Donald McHenry, former CIA Director George Tenet, former Malaysian Deputy Prime Minister and current Malaysian Opposition Leader Anwar Ibrahim, former World Bank VP Callisto Madavo, former Dean Peter F. Krogh, former USAID head, former Special Envoy for Sudan Andrew Natsios, Ambassador of Israel to the United States Michael Oren, former Prime Minister of Spain José María Aznar, and former President of Colombia Alvaro Uribe Velez.

The M47 was widely used by NATO and SEATO allies as well as other countries, including Austria ( 147 ), Belgium ( 784 ), Ethiopia ( 30 ), France ( 856 ), Greece ( 300 plus over 30 from West Germany ), Iran ( around 400 ), Italy ( 2, 480 ), Japan ( 1 for evaluation only ), Jordan ( 49 ), Pakistan ( 230 ), Portugal ( 161 ), Saudi Arabia ( 23 from the US, 108 on the international market ), Somalia ( 25 from Saudi Arabia ), South Korea ( 531 ), Sudan ( 17 from Saudi Arabia ), Spain ( 389 ), Switzerland ( 2 for evaluation ), Turkey ( 1, 347 from the US and West Germany ), West Germany ( 1, 120 ), and Yugoslavia ( 319 ).

Osama bin Laden, who was living in Sudan at the time, cited this operation, in particular US withdrawal, as an example of American weakness and vulnerability to an attack, which may have inspired him to plan the 9 / 11 attacks.

The US also began attempts to " isolate " Sudan and began referring to it as a rogue state.

Following an internal outcry, the Sadiq al-Mahdi government in March 1989 agreed with the United Nations and donor nations ( including the US ) on a plan called Operation Lifeline Sudan ( OLS ), under which some 100, 000 tons of food was moved into both government and SPLA-held areas of the Sudan, and widespread starvation was averted.

The US, UN, and other donors attempted to mount a coordinated international relief effort in both north and south Sudan to prevent a catastrophe.

The US government's Sudan Peace Act of 21 October 2002 accused Sudan of genocide for killing more than 2 million civilians in the south during the civil war since 1983.

He became a fugitive from the US during a mission in Sudan, in which he was infiltrating an arms deal involving Osama bin Laden.

A 2008 US diplomatic cable concerning the reaction to the seizure of MV Faina by pirates, along with its cargo of T-72 tanks, anti-aircraft guns and other heavy armaments, describes as a ' poorly-kept secret ' the fact that the weapons ' original destination was to be not Kenya but South Sudan.

His open endorsement of terrorism led to the Reagan administration declaring Libya a " state sponsor of terrorism " on 29 December 1979, and eventually culminated in the 1986 US Bombing of Libya.

The US Strategic Bombing Survey later estimated that nearly 88, 000 people died in this one raid, 41, 000 were injured, and over a million residents lost their homes.

The " European Theater of Operations, United States Army ," as a military command, should not be confused with the European Theatre of World War II which is often defined to include the years before the US entered the war, the Italian campaign, the European Strategic Bombing Campaign, the European Eastern Front, all of the European Western Front in 1944 and 1945, as well and other actions which did not involve the use of American forces.

In August 2009 the special relationship was again reported to have ' taken another blow ' with the release on compassionate grounds of Abdelbaset al-Megrahi, the man convicted of the 1988 Lockerbie Bombing, US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said ' it was absolutely wrong to release Abdelbaset al-Megrahi ', adding ' We are still encouraging the Scottish authorities not to do so and hope they will not '.

* US Strategic Bombing Survey Pacific – Interrogations of Japanese officials A list of the U. S. Naval Interrogations of Japanese Officials, conducted after the war, with full texts of the interviews.

Due to the intense pilot workload involved with flying and entering the window of opportunity, some aircraft are equipped with a “ Toss Bomb Computer ” ( in US nuclear delivery, a part of the Low Altitude Bombing System ) that enables the pilot to release the bomb at the correct angle.

Other topics covered include the Fairness Doctrine, the Indonesian invasion of East Timor, Noam Chomsky, global warming, Roy Benavidez, the Trident submarine, the Star Wars program, the Sandinista National Liberation Front, the Iran-Contra Affair, the War Powers Act, US invasion of Lebanon during the Lebanese Civil War, the Invasion of Grenada, Óscar Romero, the El Mozote massacre, the 1986 Bombing of Libya, the collapse of the Soviet Union, the United States invasion of Panama, and the Gulf War.

* November 7th, 1983 US Senate Bombing

The project was documented in the documentary television show Dambusters Fly Again in Canada, Dambusters: Building the Bouncing Bomb in the UK, and Nova season 39 episode " Bombing Hitler's Dams " in the US.

The Sterling Hall Bombing that occurred on the University of Wisconsin – Madison campus on August 24, 1970 was committed by four young people as a protest against the University's research connections with the US military during the Vietnam War.