Osama Bin Laden (OBL) hated the U.S. because he believed that the western influences would ruin Islam. He disliked U.S. support of neighboring countries. Osama bin Laden was a very religious man and he deeply respected Islam and despised of any person or nation who he felt disrespected his religion. He especially hated the United States because of past actions. The ideas OBL had of America was the U.S. being materialistic, Islam hating westerners. One of the main reasons he hated the U.S. was that their troops were stationed in Saudi Arabia and he thought were nothing but non-Muslim infidels to him. In Islamic, tradition states that there should not be two religions in Arabia. OBL didn’t see the U.S. troops as a defending force for the Saudis,
Osama bin Laden was an adversary of the West for years and it was known to the whole world. Unfortunately, he took it a little further by having two planes fly into the World Trade Center, one into the Pentagon and another plane possibly for the White House. As we all know, this is the unforgettable day of September 11, 2001. Thousands of Americans were innocently murdered that day and in our own country by a terrorist organization. The United States of America would not stand for this and rapidly sought out Osama Bin Laden for what he had done to us. This is the day that caused the United States to accelerate the search and destruction efforts of bin Laden. Soon after September 11th, the United States was very involved in Afghanistan in trying to find him.
... Islamic countries. Bernard Lewis also raised an additional point that Osama bin Laden felt he had to fight the United States because there was no one else who could since the fall of the Soviet Union. Osama bin Laden has made such allegations against the United States not because they are true, but only to help him in his ultimate goal of proving to the World that the Islamic world can defend itself and that he is capable of it. He also made such allegations to try to unite the Islamic world in hopes that an Islamic state may rise.
Bin Laden begins his letter to the American people by naming the Right to Self-Defense as a justification for 9/11. He invokes Self-Defense by listing a number of grievances: American attacks on Palestine, Russian
Bin Laden had never had any relation whatsoever with the United States, or with any American officials, but since the 70´s he had a strong dislike for America. He would tell his friends and family to not buy any American goods unless it was an emergency; and in the beginning of the 80´s he started talking about a battle with the United States that was to take place very soon. (A Biography of Osama Bin Laden...
In 1988 Osama bin Laden started the terrorist group al-Qaeda. Osama stole over 250 million dollars, and was already committing murders by then. In 1993 a bomb exploded in the World Trade Center area, the bomb was set off by al-Qaeda members. The bomb did not kill as many as the planes did, but killed up to 6 people and injuring many. In 1995 a bomb went off at a military base, and killed around 15 people, not only Americans were killed also Indian soldiers. In 1996 he called full jihad war on the US. Two years later he killed 224 people in a US embassy in Africa, and three years later his attack on US soil 9/11 was the US last straw. The reason for Osama’s killing wasn’t just because of 9/11 it was to prevent war on jihad that Osama had claimed on the US, if we wouldn’t have killed Osama in 2011 think about how many more terrorist attacks would have gone on in the
Above all, Osama Bin Laden was a man that left many devastated yet wanted to make a statement. Many say that violence does not solve anything, but Osama though otherwise because he believed that they only way to get what you want, something that forces it has to be done. On the other hand, the connections between people can influence not only then but everyone else because they are the ones that do not have a deal. All the things that happened in history involving Osama was controversial and immense. One stated that if something was controversial, it was important. The importance of all these events was that America learned what to do in the future. It was what America was able to do in the most traumatizing situations.
Osama bin Laden was the terrorist mastermind who orchestrated the largest terrorist attack on United States soil in history. He induced the deaths of nearly three thousand unsuspecting Americans and struck fear into an entire nation. Through impeccable communication and influence bin Laden was able to organize the 9/11 attacks, but afterwards al Qaeda began to face their downfall.
I chose this topic because I want to learn more about Osama’s life why he wanted to commit the war on terrorism against the western theory of how it is super bad at all times. From what
Osama Bin Laden is brought up to a be Muslim extremist. He spent most of his adulthood waging a holy war against the west. Most people know him as the man behind 9/11, and the leader of “Al Qaeda” . He is one of the most popular terrorist leaders in modern history.
This quote shows the unexpectedness of the attacks, and how terrible the attacks were. The September 11 attacks were performed by an Islamic group called al-Qaeda. The motives of which were stated by their leader, Usama Bin Laden, when he declared Holy War on the US. In 2002, Osama Bin Laden stated that he attacked the US because of their support in attacking Muslims in Somalia, supporting Russian violations against Muslims, the United
He created the plans and plotted out the date and time of the attack. The September 11th terrorists attacks were the worst acts of terrorism the U.S had ever seen. The attacks killed nearly 3,000 people. These weren’t just any kind of people. They were innocent civilians with families and friends and a life with people who loved and cared about them. Osama bin Laden was the man behind all of it . He may not have been present at the attack but he was somewhere looking at his disgusting success. Then the hunt began to find Osama bin Laden began. “It was a kill or capture mission (Pete
Al-Qaeda is an international Islamist extremist terrorist network founded in the late 1980s by Osama bin Laden. Al Qaeda practiced an extreme version of the religion of Islam. The group is intensely opposed to the United States and other Western, democratic nations. They are especially against the military presence of these countries in Arab nations. Since the group’s creation by bin Laden in the late 1980s, Al Qaeda has helped coordinate and fund numerous bombings worldwide. Their aim had been to overthrow governments in the Middle East, and elsewhere in the Muslim world, which do not strictly enforce a religiously sanctioned political and social order. Attacks against the United States were intended to cut American support for many of these governments; U.S. support was viewed by al-Qaeda as a major obstacle to creating a global order under Islamic
On September 11, 2001 the United States was devastated by four terrorist attacks by the Islamic terrorist group al-Qaeda. The terrorist attacks took place in Manhattan, New York, Arlington County Virginia, and Stonycreek Township near Shanksville, Pennsylvania. The attacks killed 2996 people, injured over 6,00 others, and cost at least $10 billion in property damage. 9/11 was the single deadliest incident for firefighters and law enforcement in the United States. A total of 411 emergency workers died trying to rescue people and fight the fires. Osama bin Laden was the mastermind behind this horrific attack on the United States. They were trying to get revenge on the United States for their support of Israel and their involvement in the Persian
Al Qaeda is leading by Osama bin laden that was born and grown up in Saudi Arabia; his family was very rich and respected by Saudi Royal household and the public. When he finished his University in Saudi Arabia, he becomes an extreme religious person. Osama started to help Islamist movement against communist in Yemen (Gunaratna, 2005) . In December 1997 when Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan he went to Pakistan and then Afghanistan to help Afghan group to protect it from Soviet Union. At the time a Palestinian Jordanian, Dr Abdullah Azzam esta...
Osama Bin Laden was on the FBI’s most wanted list for 10 years. He was responsible for the deaths of thousands of American soldiers and American citizens, as well as the 9/11 terrorist attack. The American Special Forces have been trying to track him down for a long time and have not succeeded, until May 1st, 2011. The mission that killed Bin Laden was called “Operation Neptune Spear” and that mission changed American history forever.