Al Qaeda, the organization that the United States is in a constant, never ending battle with, the organization that has made the most impact and changed the United States forever. Al Qaeda is always making headlines with their terrorist attacks, the most known attack September 11th, 2001. This essay is about the terrorist group Al Qaeda, its history and background, Osama bin Laden, their well-known leader, and the major attacks on America. Al Qaeda, or Al Qaida, is a global militant Islamist organization
In her 2012 film Zero Dark Thirty, Kathryn Bigelow paints one of the most well-known manhunts conducted by the United States, the hunt for Osama bin Laden, the leader of al-Qaeda. The film’s ending presents the death of bin Laden as a glorious moment in American history. After the U.S. Navy SEALs team enters bin Laden’s room, they quickly locate the target and precisely shoot him to death. “It’s okay,” whispers a member of the SEALs team to the women and children crying in the corner of the room
The Middle East blames America for the separation of the Muslim people. The group al Qaeda just wants to unite all Muslim people and form one perfect nation. So the al Qaeda made it clear of what their intentions would be if America did not step out of the war in the Middle East, which they would use any means of force to make them stop. The American government chose to be ignorant and did not heed the warnings of the al Qaeda, and the cause was the terrorist attack known around the world as 9/11. 9/11
Airports should have more security because of drugs, illegal, and terrorist. Airport security systems have had a drastic change since the 9/11 incident. Due to the airports lack of security terrorist over took the planes and crashed them into the twin towers. Another huge part of why they need to improve airport security is drugs. More drugs are brought threw the planes due to the over secure borders along the U.S. Also it is the same for illegal immigrants that want to come to America. They take
and immensely negative to society and those who lived in it. Osama Bin Laden had not only been responsible for one of the biggest attacks in American history but also for so many more all around the world. For instance, in 1992, the first attack by Al-Qaeda was carried out as a bombing at the old Mohur hotel in Aden, Yemen, where U.S. troops had been staying while on the route to Somalia. They also targeted a second hotel which was the Aden Movenpick for the same purposes. They followed through by
following a split with its parent organisation, Al Qaeda during the Syrian Civil War. Originally operating under the guise of Jabhat al Nusra (which remains an Al Qaeda affiliate), current Nusra and Al Qaeda leaders Abu Mohammad al-Julani and Ayman al-Zawahiri rejected a merger in 2013 that would have united Al Qaeda, Nusra and ISI (Islamic State in Iraq). Daesh became a successful Wahhabi Salafist splinter group under the leadership of Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, quickly overtaking its parent organisation
attack on a country with the world’s strongest military and what led to their focus to attack the Untied States: In short, who attacked us, and why do they hate us? The Untied States formed a bi-partisan 9/11 Commission was formed to trace the roots of Al-Qa’ida, investigate the history of the 19 hijackers, examine missed opportunities of law enforcement officials to avert the disaster, and make recommendations to clean up the faulty incoherent intelligence-gathering operation. The 500+ page 9/11 Commission
Mus’ab al-Zarqawi, a Jordanian of the Sunni denomination, who took his name from his birthplace Zarqa, Jordan .
International Relations Al Qaeda: Origins, Development and Objectives Select any terrorist group we studied and explain its origins, development and objectives. Al Qaeda is an international terrorist organization that was founded by Osama bin Laden in the late 1980s in Peshawar, Pakistan. The name is Arabic for “The Base of Operation” or “method” (Burke 2004). However, many experts agree that al-Qaeda is more dangerous as an ideology than as an organization. As an organization, it has been
Russian Empire, and the Mughal Empire’s last gasp was in 1857 when their rebellion was defeated by the British. This has caused an absence of a core state for the Islamic world. There have been individual revolutions in several countries such as Omar Al Mukhtar in Libya, the Million Martyrs Revolution in Algeria…against Western colonization but the strategic centre of gravity had already shifted. The continuous military defeats of the Arab countries against Israel (1948, 1967, and 1973) have caused
Al-Shabaab also known as the “Youth” or Hirakata al Shabaab al mujahidin "movement of striving youth" are a terrorist group in Somalia who have a link with Al-Qaeda since 2012. According to CNN journalist Holly Yan “In February 2012, the group's leader, Ahmed Abdi Godane, and al Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri released a video announcing the alliance of the two organizations”. (CNN Yan) There are many factors that attribute to their start. Apparently, Somalia was in chaos in the past 25 years, people
militant group known as the mujahedeen in Afghanistan during the occupation of Soviet Russia. With weapons training from the west and money from the Saudis the Mujahedeen attracted Radical Islamists like Osama Bin Laden and Ayman al-Zawahiri a concoction that later evolves in to Al Qaida which was one hundred percent anti Shia. In the 1980s Iran and Iraq go to war where Iraq is being backed by the Saudis and Kuwait. The Conflict lasts a total of eight years and ends on the 18 of July 1988 when Iran
focus will be on the different of the violence level between ISIS, Al-Qaeda, and Muslim Brotherhood. However, that violence led to make the region unstable, which could export to the whole world. The three cases that will be address in this research paper have similarity and different. Different terrorist groups have emerged over the past years and caused instability and security threats globally and regionally. The Muslim Brotherhood, Al-Qaeda, and ISIS are some of the popular radical and extremist
In the post Osama bin Laden era al-Qaedist ideology is flourishing across the Arab world. A significant development has been the rise of al-Qaeda offshoots in the Middle East. The Abdallah Azzam Brigades franchise has increasingly become a noteworthy actor in terrorism. On May 8th, 2012 Thomas Nides, Deputy Secretary of State designated Abdallah Azzam Brigades as a foreign terrorist organization (Nides, T.R. , 2012). Abdullah Azzam Brigades may have only recently been added as a foreign terrorist
century, words such as jihad, suicide bomber, and al-Qaeda increasingly permeated the collective consciousness of Americans. These words were associated with fear, with terror, with the threat of death, and with the eastern ‘Other’. September 11, 2001 is a day on which most can recall the shaky words of broadcasters and the billowing plumes of smoke that were emitted from the towers of the World Trade Centre when members of the Islamic fundamentalist group al-Qaeda hijacked four commercial passenger airplanes
bomber from Connecticut who pleaded guilty June 21, said in front of a judge, “I am part of the answer to the US terrorizing the Muslim nations and the Muslim people, and on behalf of that, I'm avenging the attacks" (Scherer). The United States is still Al Qaeda’s primary target and is under pressure to demonstrate that it is capable of assaulting the U.S. again in order to keep its credentials as the foreru... ... middle of paper ... ...ls/story?id=11699198>. Scherer, Ron. "Terrorism Cases Force
It was not until August of 1996 when Bin Laden issued a fatwa a declaration war upon the US, following the June bombing of a US Air Force Installation in Saudi Arabia that killed 19 service members and wounded 515 people (Hellman.) He laid out the multitude of reasons why the group has purposely targeted the United States and its allies. The fatwa outlines 7 major reasons with a multitude of sub reasons concurrent with his main points. His first is that of “we” as in the western world attacked them
billionaire, and owned one of the biggest construction companies of the kingdom. Bin Laden attended a high leveled school during his childhood, which combined British style secular education with Islamic worship. During his college years, he went to King Abd Al University to study four different courses: civil engineering, public administration, business and economics. In the 1970’s, when he was only 17 years old, bin Laden married his first cousin, and later on married three other women (marrying several
Al-Qaeda Introduction Al Qaeda is a terrorist organization established in Peshawar, Pakistan, between 1988 or 1989 by Osama bin laden and his teacher Abullah Yusuf Azzam. Al-Qaeda is an international terrorist network that considered the top terrorist threat to the United States. Al Qaeda is seeking to get rid of all westerns from Muslims territory and replace their own Islamic regime. They are a group of people who work to gather to plan act of terrorism against Muslim and non Muslim especially
terrorist group led by Abu Bakr al- Baghdadi. His successors Abu Hamza al-Muhajir and Abu Omr al-Baghdadi were both killed in 2010, where leadership of Al Qaeda in Iraq was passed to Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi. Before the true formation of ISIS, it was led by Jamaat al-Tawhid walJihad during a terrorist training groups of western Afghanistan and relocated to Iraq in 2003. From there the organization rose to wage war against the US under a fugitive Jordanian terrorist, Abu Mus ab al-Zarqawi. In October 2004,