Leading a dangerous terrorist group to cause thousands of innocent deaths, Osama Bin Laden, was the former leader of, Al Qaeda. Osama Bin Laden led many terrorist attacks which caused carnage around the world and forced an increase of security at major events and airports. Osama Bin Laden was very dangerous and one of his interests was to help his organization obtain attention. He was born on March 10, 1957 in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. He was born into a very wealthy family with 51 other siblings.…
After the terrorist attack on September 11, 2001, Al-Qaeda outdone the government to be the world 's most obnoxious terrorist organization. Al-Qaeda means “the base" in Arabic and the amount of terrorists are ordered by Osama bin Laden. In addition, Osama bin Laden was killed in a united action by the U.S. army in May 2011 (Hayes, L., & Brunner, B.).However, people believed that this group will be encouraged to look for a revenge from this incident, whereas others questioned if they will continue without their ultimate leader, Osama bin Laden. In June, U.S. executives broadcasted that once looking through the documents and computer files occupied from bin Laden, they established their statement that Afghanistan and Pakistan people who are a…
Some of the key characteristics that allowed Osama Bin laden to influence the minds and actions of the members of al Qaeda and its affiliates was that he was charismatic; he was also narcissistic, which made it impossible for Bind Laden to actually understand the points of views of other people in other parts of the world; and he was also able to effectively communicate and correlate his radical personal ideology with the teachings of the Quran (American Public University, 2016). Another characteristic that allowed Bin Laden to be an effective leader within his terrorist organization was that he was able to take his business administration and modern management knowledge that he gained as an university graduate as well as the experience he…
Bin Laden supported his idea because of his bitterness towards growing Western influences on Middle Eastern life. Bin Laden was first influenced by the Al Thagher teachers who offered extracurricular Islamic lessons. These teachers were apart of a Muslim Brotherhood, an Islamic political group who promoted means to achieve Islamic governance. Soon after Soviet troops seized Afghanistan in 1979, Azzam and bin Laden traveled to Peshawar, to join the resistance.…
Al-Qaeda was a famous terrorist group well known for their many attacks on the U.S. but what they are really known for is their 9/11 attack on the World Trade Center in New York City and the Pentagon in Washington D.C. Many people people were astonished by these attacks. It all started on September 11, 2001, at 8:45 am 19 militants linked with the Islamic extremist group al-Qaeda hijacked four airliners and carried out suicide attacks against targets in the United States. Over 3,000 people were killed during these attacks including more than 400 police officers and firefighters. Reportedly financed by Saudi fugitive Osama bin Laden the leader of al-Qaeda terrorist organization, they were supposedly acting in retribution for America's support for Israel, its involvement in the Persian Gulf War, and its continued military existence in the Middle east.…
Osama Bin Laden. One man. A man responsible for thousands of deaths of innocent people. Bin Laden was the leader of the terrorist group named Al Qaeda. Bin Laden’s attacks on the U.S. on September 11, 2001 made the Americans angry and want to search for and kill him.…
He began to follow the teachings of pan-Islamist Abdullah Azzam, who believed all Muslims should wage a holy war, or Jihad, on the entire world to create one Islamic state. Because he saw the Western world influencing the Middle East, the idea appealed to him. At this point, Osama bin Laden became significant. He built the terrorist group al-Qaida from the ground up.…
His path of achieving this began in 1979 when he went to Pakistan to help the Afghan people fight off the Soviet occupation of the country. During this time, Bin Laden used his family’s fortune to pay for fighters entering Pakistan. After the withdrawal of the Soviets from Afghanistan, Bin Laden began the formation of his fighting force, al-Qaeda to take up the Jihad cause elsewhere. Following the U.S invasion of Iraq in the response to the occupation of Kuwait, Bin Laden offered Saudi Arabia protection from Iraqi forces, who declined and instead relied on U.S support. This deeply angered him, as the U.S now had bases near the holiest cities in Islam, furthering his hatred of the U.S and the west.…
[he] left Saudi Arabia to fight the Soviets in Afghanistan” (WashingtonsBlog). Like many other zealots, bin Laden felt it necessary to fight off a threat to the Muslim world and to preserve his culture. The group he joined, the Afghan Mujahideen, was known for pseudo-terrorist tactics and jihadist ideologies, and was one of bin Laden’s central inspirations for the formation of Al…
Or are they something bigger than that. The Al Qaeda are actually that no one can quite explain. Osama wanted to show that America wasn 't the Super Power in the World. Osama wanted to prove to the world that god 's bleed in which he proved by the attack on 9/11. I think Osama took that as an advantage, because many hated countries of America might aid Osama to take the U.S..…
Discuss the creation and evolution of al-Qaeda (25 pts.) The Creation of al-Qaeda officially begun during the Cold war around 1979 when Afghanistan was invaded by the Soviet Union. This became an issue for the United States, and the goal was to come up with a plan that involved pushing the Soviet union of out Afghanistan. The outcome of this event leads to the development of an organization for the international Muslim regiment that was formed to rebel against the invasion and eventually get the Soviet Union out. This Islamist organization was founded in 1988 by the famous Saudi Arabia native, Osama Bin Laden and others Islamic warriors.…
Al- Qaeda is one of many Islamist extremist groups. The extremists view Islam as a guiding ideology for politics and the organization of society. They believe that the sole basis for a country's law, culture, and social life should be a strict religious ways. Some Muslims believe in this while many do not. Islamic extremists believe that any measures are acceptable to achieve these ends, including violence.…
Training and the planning of ads and attacks and combining strategies through forming a political group. Next since Al-Qaeda couldn’t fight politically they turned the tension into a religious fight into a cosmic war. Lastly Al-Qaeda acted on their symbolic acts of power with leading to a terrorist attack on the twin towers and world trade center to get recognition and notice. Bin Laden reverses the roles of terrorism and blames it on the…
This was how Osama Bin Laden was described. Born on March 10, 1957, no one knew how much havoc he would wreak all over the world. In his 54 years of life, he accumulated 6 wives bearing 21 children. During this time he also founded the Islamic terrorist group named Al-Qaeda in 1988. His main goal in life was to advance Islamic revolutions throughout the Muslim world through the use of war, bloodshed, fear, and violence.…
Al-Qaeda (The Base) Al Qaeda, which means “The Base” in Arabic, is the most known and the most dangerous terrorist group in the world. It was founded in 1988 by the most wanted person in America, Osama Bin Laden. Other leaders included Abdullah Yusuf Azzam and Ayman Al-Zawahiri. Their motives were to keep American influences out of Muslim countries, fight Israel, and dictate the Middle East.…