Terrorism and security: From New York to Bamako

A comparison between the attacks of September 11, 2001 in the USA and those of September 17, 2024 in Bamako may be necessary on certain scales. Both crimes were committed in the same month, September. Even if 23 long years separate them, the goal remains the same

On September 11, 2001, New York’s Twin Towers and the Pentagon were the target of the largest terrorist attack ever recorded in the United States of America. There is joy and wonder all over the world. Because no one, including the greatest experts on security matters, expected that the lungs of the world economy, the core of internal and external security of the US would be targeted and reach as effectively. The media has no choice. They must, as current events require, cover, report, analyze and disseminate the facts that have just happened at the heart of the world’s leading military and economic power, through the best experts are available.

Bin Laden, the master (?), his flock and his sponsors could only rejoice at the world’s attention on them. The main television channels (CNN, BBC, VOA, DW, France 24, among others), the most popular and largest news organizations (Reuters, AP, AFP, etc.), the tabloids and magazines most popular read around the world (El Pais, Le Monde, Washington Post, New York Time, The Guardian, etc.) for weeks about the attacks in New York. Thus making the terrorists who committed the crime central to the interests of planet Earth. It is a blow received and for terrorists, especially the Al-Qaeda nebula.

Transparency was ensured at the cost of countless human lives and property damage estimated at millions, if not billions, of US dollars. As long as we cried on the side of the victims and regretted the great economic losses, we laughed on the side of the blind criminals who ensured that there would be more “transparency” in the media of the world.

A comparison between the attacks of September 11, 2001 in the USA and those of September 17, 2024 in Bamako may be necessary on certain scales. Both crimes were committed in the same month, September. Even if 23 long years separate them, the goal remains the same. Targets can also be configured. In the US, the Pentagon and the Twin Towers have paid the price for the brutality of terrorism.

In Mali, the gendarmerie and the airport were targeted and hit with loss of life on the military side. We are not yet entitled to a quantitative assessment on the part of the attackers. But we know from social networks that many were killed or captured like Bin Laden and some of his subordinates.

In America, when the two towers were destroyed, some economists feared such an accident in 1929. In Mali, Modibo Keita Sénou International Airport, with damage being assessed, it is possible discover the war economy Malians have been living on. for a time he will feel the blow.

To go back, as much as the Pentagon symbolizes the power of America, the Sénou Air Base for Malians is a symbol of their firepower ​​​​​​​​​​​​​ against the challenges of the day. As much as the massive damage and loss of human life was significant, in Mali the people were experiencing the pain of seeing young people in training die of their wishes and desires, and their dearly acquired equipment turning to ashes. But apart from the blood and tears, we have the right to ask the question about the choice of gendarmerie schools with terrorists unfairly called jihadists.

Several ideas can be put forward to answer this question. The first one arises from the date of the day of the attack. The Malian gendarmerie was officially created on September 17. It is a day that makes her vulnerable, because instead of focusing on her security missions, her mind is more on the party, on the parade than on the necessary and mandatory vigilance in the these war times.

In our opinion, which is far from the opinion of the experts, it is necessary to remember that acts of terrorism come not only from the desire to undermine the confidence of Malian citizens, but also to gain publicity, as has been mentioned many times here. Everyone knows that the gendarmerie is an elite group, by definition, made up of officers and non-commissioned officers. This means that the gendarmes are well trained militarily. In addition, they serve as provosts and some of them are legal police officers who are necessary for the proper functioning of justice. Beating her in her training center is a big challenge for the terrorists who measure the noise that will be made around their actions.

As well as hitting the gendarmerie gives exposure to the bad guys, doing it in the airport area would give the crime the name of the terrorist’s brilliant act. A strategic nerve of the current fight against the abuse of the numbers and the illegal possession of the national territory, Bamako airport is also an entry and exit point for visitors to Mali. By succeeding in committing a crime, a crime that would seriously damage the image of Mali and the AES in front of their detractors and enemies within the international community.

Malians were not surprised to hear the anti-terrorist media saying, “Airplanes have been heavily damaged” as if they were celebrating. All ideas that go in the direction wanted and proposed by the supporters of international terrorism, some of them, in fact with special powers, have pushed the nerve to the so much so that they are proud of it. There is reason to wonder, even if specific answers were given by terrorists arrested on the same day, about how easily Satan’s followers could enter a ‘typical hyper-secure places.

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