Abu Musab al-Zarqawi

The Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, also known as “ISIS” or “ISIL”, is a militant extremist group that has been committing brutal war crimes, attacks against humanity, and acts of terror to put fear in the minds of many people all around the world. This group is known to be one of the most extreme groups of radicals that has ever existed. While many people are fearing ISIS, others are preparing for a war against them. Although there are many ideas of how and why they have come to be the biggest…

Throughout the 20th century, there were many sources of major conflict. From World War I, to World War II, to the Cold War, the world has often been at war. After the 9/11 attacks in 2001, American President George W. Bush started a new war, called the War on Terror. The War on Terror is a fight against Islamic terrorist groups in the Middle East, and continues to this day. A coalition lead by the United States is currently at war with one of these terrorist groups known as ISIS, which controls…

ISIL stands for the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant and is a terrorist organization founded in 1999 by Abu Musab al-Zarqawi. The United Nations has held ISIL responsible for human rights abuses and war crimes along with ethnic cleansing on a historic level. To compare these two, They both deal with harming innocent human beings and both had the idea of ethnic cleansing…

There was a Jordanian embassy bombing on the 7th and a car bomb detonated in the car of cleric Ayatollah Mohammed Baqr al-Hakim. The most major bombing was that of the UN. On the 19th, a suicide bomber drove a truck filled with explosives into the United Nations compound in Baghdad, killing 17 people including the United Nations representative in Iraq, Sergio Vieira de…

War impacts individuals in different ways. Chris Kyle was a Navy SEAL, known for being one of the most successful snipers in American history. His drive to help out others, the critical eye he had, and his love for the United States made him successful in his career as a sniper. In 2013, Chris Kyle was tragically killed in a shooting accident. It is important that current and future generations hear his story to understand what made him so successful in his craft. He may not be here anymore, but…

finance their war on terror, specifically Al-Qaeda and the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (Islamic State). The Islamic…

Al Qaeda With the war on terrorism becoming more and more violent, US officials are looking for a way to stop the violence that Al Qaeda is inflicting on the United States of America. Al Qaeda isn’t a new problem to the United States. Al Qaeda is defined as “a radical Sunni Muslim organization dedicated to the elimination of a Western presence in Arab countries and militantly opposed to Western foreign policy: founded by Osama bin Laden in 1988” (Dictionary.com). “In approximately 1989, bin…

2001, on the Twin Towers in New York. The act consisted of four planes that belonged to the Islamic terrorist group known as al-Qaeda, and were suicide attacks used to target symbolic US landmarks. One of the newest groups producing many deadly attacks is Isis. According to The Onion news article, this group was formed in a garage by a college drop-out named Abu Musab al- Zarqawi. The Global Terrorism Index tells us that the top five countries with the most terrorist attacks in order are Iraq…

Multicultural Awareness Paper & Immersion Experience Deja Roberson The University of North Carolina at Greensboro This Multicultural awareness project will help me gain insight on different cultures as well as improve my knowledge and understanding of cultural diversity. Based on my reflection paper and little exposure I had to interview these groups of people. I decided to immerse myself with the middle eastern culture, specifically people of Arabic descent. When I think about the…

Al Qaeda Formation The name Al Qaeda was common in the Soviet-Afghanistan war training camps and it is translated to mean the base in the English language. This organization developed during the Bureau, becoming an organization of faith-fueled warriors rigorously working on an ideological program to protect the world’s evils to Israel and an America that was Jew-dominated. Osama used his managerial skills to establish this group as a business and obtained many of the finances from legitimate…