The prompt and specific criteria for this essay assignment are as follows; Select an event which has occurred within the United States since 1990 which you believe was, in fact, a terrorist
attack. After selecting a specific event, compose an essay in which you specifically address the following:
• Briefly summarize what occurred during the event you have selected and why you consider it to be a terrorist attack. What specific criteria does the event match which would enable
you to categorize it as a terrorist attack?
• What particular terrorist or terrorist group carried out the attack? What terrorist group typology as specifically described during this course does that terrorist or terrorist group fall
under and why? What political and/or religious belief system did this terrorist or terrorist group base its philosophy and subsequent actions in?
• Which specific organizational and operational tools led to the success of the terrorist or terrorist group’s actions? Why were these particular organizational and operational tools selected by the terrorist or terrorist group?
• Specifically describe how U.S. homeland security and public safety agencies at the federal, state, and local levels responded to this event. Did any legal or regulatory changes result
from this event and if so have these changes been positive or negative for the overall safety of the United States?

Minimum length of seven double spaced pages using APA Seventh Edition formatting guidelines.
Minimum of seven different sources required to be cited in the essay assignment with no less than three of these sources being peer-reviewed academic journal articles published within the
past 10 years.