How the intelligence community missed 9/11 Life Sciences Essay (Essay Sample)

How The Intelligence Community Missed 9/11
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In the decade before the 9/11 attacks, several incidences could have been used by the intelligence community to predict and prevent the attacks. One was the increasing aggression of Al-Qaeda attacks. In 1996, Al-Qaeda declared war against the US and stated his intention of launching an attack. However, the US intelligence community ignored this threat since they could not understand how a group that is located deep in the Afghanistan mountains could successfully launch attacks against the US. Later on, Al-Qaeda successfully carried out bombings in Kenya and Tanzania against US interests. Despite this, US intelligence agencies failed to take these attacks as a sign of additional attacks in the future (National Commission on Terrorist Attacks upon the United States, 2004). If the intelligence agencies had investigated these attacks and how they had been planned, they could have gained more understanding into the organization of Al-Qaeda, its capabilities, vast resources, and followers around the world.