Mike Moyers

Terror In Europe Frontline

    The program that I decided to write about is the Terror In Europe Frontline video. This program was about terrorists and terrorist groups that were going around different countries undetected plotting many different kinds of attacks on many different cities in Europe. Terrorists like Cherif and Kouachi would get out of jail and travel their way to Yemen to join Al Qaeda to plot attacks against European countries. Even though these attacks were focused on countries in Europe, this also had an effect on the United States and our government. Our intelligence agencies continued to keep an eye on these possible threats while other European countries had no way of watching what they do and keeping a close eye on them. Countries like France and Belgium were vulnerable to an attack due to these circumstances and that is exactly what happened. They were bombed, shot up, and many citizens died in these countries from terrorist attacks. These attacks ultimately led to not only Al Qaeda getting stronger, but also ISIS. This posed a threat to America as well because the USA were as much as a target for these terrorist organizations as well as these European countries. Many strong leaders in these countries tried to come together to make up a way to keep track of possible terrorist threats and to keep them from traveling out of the country. Containing them and not letting them leave would prevent them from going to these home countries for these organizations and will not be able to get information on any upcoming terrorist plans. In addition, they will be able to keep an eye on these terrorists to make sure they are not a threat to any country. They had to figure out a way to keep everyone safe from these terrorists and terrorist organizations.

    My opinion on this Frontline program is that these European countries need to come together to create an effective way to stop these terrorist organizations from being a threat to themselves and their allies. Also, I believe that the United States needs to start to help these countries that are in danger because eventually the USA could be the country in the most trouble needing help from these European countries. If the US helps them with their security and protection issues now then we will absolutely get help if we were to need it in the future. These terrorists that go in and out of jail need to be closely monitored at all times after their release so that they no longer can be involved in any dangerous activity without being caught. This could also help us catch these terrorist group and their leaders to make our world safer every day. This Frontline program showed that the security and observation of these terrorists need to be improved which will help protect all of these European countries as well as every country all around the world.