Al-Qaeda is a multi-national Sunni Islamist terrorist group founded by Osama bin Laden in 1988. Over the last two decades, Al-Qaeda group has largely been successful in it terrorist activities mainly due to its effective denial and deception tactics (Kass, & Phillip, 2013). Denial tactic involves the group concealing their information so as to hide the truth of their terrorist target from intelligence analysts. On the other hand, the group employs deception tactic by providing misleading information to their adversary. Thus, Al-Qaeda uses deceptive propaganda through the internet and social media platforms to recruit other members to the group (Kass, & Phillip, 2013).
One example of attacks carried out by Al-Qaeda group is the August 7, 1998, simultaneous truck bombing of the U.S. embassies in Nairobi, Kenya and Dar es Salaam, Tanzania where 223 people lost their lives with more than 5,000 injured. The other example is the September 11, 2001 attack on Twin Towers and World Trade Centre when terrorists crashed two hijacked airplanes which resulted in almost 3,000 deaths with more than 6,000 others injured (Pezdek, 2013). In both these two Al-Qaeda attacks, the emergency departments response was overwhelming as they worked extremely harder digging through the rumbles to retrieve those who were trapped in the collapsed buildings. In both cases, the retrieved blast survivors were hurled to nearby waiting ambulances and rushed to various hospitals within the attack areas while the dead were taken to nearby morgues. However, what first responders could have done better in both these two cases is to secure and barricade at least a kilometre radius from the collapsed building area and inform civilians to stay as far away from the blast scene as possible. This action, in particular, is important so as to prevent untrained civilians from engaging in rescue mission as this may lead to them suffering injuries from the collapsed rumbles (Keniston, & Quinn, 2013).
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References
Kass, L., & Phillip, J. (2013). Surprise, deception, denial and warning: Strategic imperatives. Orbis , 57 (1), 59-82.
Keniston, A., & Quinn, J. F. (Eds.). (2013). Literature After 9/11 (Vol. 1). Routledge.
Pezdek, K. (2013). Memory for the events of September 11, 2001. In Memory and Society (pp. 75-92). Psychology Press.
