I remember the morning of April 19, 1995. I was seven years old and confused by the rubble that consistently flashed across my television. Words like “Oklahoma City Bombing” hung in the air, and Timothy McVeigh became synonymous with evil. I remember the morning of September 11, 2001. I was thirteen years old and confused by the rubble that consistently flashed across my television. Words like “9/11” hung in the air, and Osama Bin Laden became synonymous with evil.
Recent decades have forced the intelligence community to monitor pendulum shifts in various expressions of terrorism. The early nineties raised questions about foreign terrorism as Al-Qaeda took responsibility for attempted bombings at the World Trade Center. The mid-nineties raised questions of domestic terrorism with the Oklahoma City Bombing. The pendulum returned to foreign terrorism after Al-Qaeda attacked U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania in 1998, and, of course, the World Trade Center in 2001.
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