U.S. policies established post9/11 have substantially reduced therisk of terrorist acts against U.S.

ok so even if the US has increased the amount of deaths by invading Iraq, that still does not prove that the risk of terrorist acts remains. That only proves that the US POLICY (anything that the US made a descision about or continually does)of invading iraq was a violent one. My opponent asked me to prove to him that 9/11 scale attacks could have happened. Here I provide you an extensive list of confessions made by Khalid Sheikh Muhammed, many of which are plans for terrorist attacks against the US, including the destroying of the sears tower. The asterisks mark where each confession starts. source: BBC. keep in mind that Khalid Sheikh Muhammed was the man in charge of the 9/11 attacks. *The February 1993 bombing of the World Trade Center in New York City *A failed "shoe bomber" operation *The October 2002 attack in Kuwait *The nightclub bombing in Bali, Indonesia *A plan for a "second wave" of attacks on major U.S. landmarks to be set in the spring or summer of 2002 after the 9/11 attacks, which includes more hijackings of commercial airlines and having them flown into various buildings in the U.S. including the Library Tower in Los Angeles , the Sears Tower in Chicago, the Plaza Bank building in Seattle and the Empire State Building in New York *Plots to attack oil tankers and U.S. naval ships in the Straits of Hormuz, the Straits of Gibraltar and in Singapore *A plan to blow up the Panama Canal *Plans to assassinate Jimmy Carter *A plot to blow up suspension bridges in New York City *A plan to destroy the Sears Tower in Chicago with burning fuel trucks *Plans to "destroy" Heathrow Airport, Canary Wharf and Big Ben in London *A planned attack on "many" nightclubs in Thailand *A plot targeting the New York Stock Exchange and other U.S. financial targets *A plan to destroy buildings in Eilat, Israel *Plans to destroy U.S. embassies in Indonesia, Australia and Japan in 2002. *Plots to destroy Israeli embassies in India, Azerbaijan, the Philippines and Australia *Surveying and financing an attack on an Israeli El-Al flight from Bangkok *Sending several "mujahideen" into Israel to survey "strategic targets" with the intention of attacking them *The November 2002 suicide bombing of a hotel in Mombasa, Kenya *The failed attempt to shoot down an Israeli passenger jet leaving Mombasa airport in Kenya *Plans to attack U.S. targets in South Korea *Providing financial support for a plan to attack U.S., British and Jewish targets in Turkey *Surveillance of U.S. nuclear power plants in order to attack them *A plot to attack NATO's headquarters in Europe *Planning and surveillance in a 1995 plan (the "Bojinka Operation") to bomb 12 American passenger jets *The planned assassination attempt against then-U.S. President Bill Clinton during a mid-1990s trip to the Philippines. *"Shared responsibility" for a plot to kill Pope John Paul II *Plans to assassinate Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf *An attempt to attack a U.S. oil company in Sumatra, Indonesia, "owned by the Jewish former [U.S.] Secretary of State Henry Kissinger" *The beheading of Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl By the US policy of using extraordinary rendition and extracting evidence from this man, the US has reduced the risk of terrorist acts against the US, because we know how to counter these threats, and threats similar to them. I would also ask you to consider the establishment of the National Intelligence Council. Pre 9/11, intelligence agencies (primarily FBI and CIA) were not permitted to share information. The FBI had info about the hijackers in the US. The CIA had info about the hijackers in the middle east. Had they shared information, connections could have been made and the attacks could have been prevented. Post 9/11, the NIC has been amended to particularly combat terrorism. It consists of 16 intelligence agencies that collaborate information and continue to prevent attacks today. I would also ask you to consider the increased resources and increased employment within the US to counter terrorism. According to the Federal Bureau of Investigation, they have dramatically increased their ability to combat terrorism over the past five years. This includes the doubling of intelligence analysts and tripled number of linguists, increased the number of Joint Terrorism Task Forces (partnerships between the FBI and other federal agencies such as the department of homeland security responsible for taking action against terrorism) from 35 to 101, established the National Counterterrorism Center, established the Foreign Terrorist Tracking Task Force, established the Terrorist Screening Center, and finally instituted a Terrorism Financing Operations Section to shut down terrorist financing. All of these advances have set a national ground for counterterrorism that the US did not have before. By installing these new tactics after 9/11 we have made a substantial increase in our preparedness for terrorism, and now know how to combat it. And finally, our own defense, through the department of homeland security. Following the 9/11 commission report's reccomendations, the US has established the DHS, and it has been funded and successfully protected our homeland after 9/11. go back to the list of planned attacks against the US, and tell me that we have not reduced the risk. thanks! Flor