Al-Qaeda in Iraq

became immediately involved in the war in terror following the 9/11 terrorist attacks. Less than a month after 9/11, the United States had invaded Afghanistan in order to attack and destroy Al-Qaeda, meanwhile removing the government that allowed them to live within their borders. Following that, the US had invaded Iraq which was related to the war on terror. The result of these wars was that the budgets for defense-related agencies skyrocketed. According to PBS NewsHour, the budget of the Coast…

The group is now believed to be operating in Iraq. The Abu Nidal Organization opposes to any form of compromise or negotiation with Israel, and it wants the state of Israel to be eliminated. It is known as one of the most uncompromising Palestinian militant groups. The group carried out a major attack…

surveillance have taken a huge turn with the advance in technology. In response to this terrorist attack, President Obama wrote a letter to the Congress of the United States, authorizing for the use of military force (AUMF) against Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL). President Obama viewed these targeted killings as an act of war, but the issue is whether this act of war can be justified. Establishing whether the threat posed actual imminent threat, will determine if the war had a…

to focusing on JI’s involvement in the anthrax plot, the authors did not specify the group’s intent. It seems as though Al Qaeda was using JI for their interest and exposure. However, Al Qaeda’s intent was to develop weapons of mass destruction in order to attack vulnerabilities in America’s infrastructure and economy (Joosse & Milward, 2014). Using $5,000 funded by Al Qaeda, Yazid Sufaat was able to acquire another laboratory to continue his goal of cultivating anthrax for several months…

On September 11, 2001 a group named al-Qaeda sent four airliners to the United States carrying suicide attacks. We didn’t expect any attacks at the time or knew there would be any soon that day, it was all a surprise. Two of the planes flew all the way to New York City and crashed into the towers known as the twin towers, the third plane hit the Pentagon just outside of Washington, D.C., and the fourth plane crashed in a field in Pennsylvania. These crashes resulted to be an extensive death and…

backfired, but it did help lead to a stop of the spread of communism. This too, is where we must ask ourselves did it hurt us, or help us in the long run? America's foreign policy has been atrocious in the past 20 years, with a complete failure in Iraq that lead to the formation of ISIS and a deteriorating relationship with Russia (Roggio). Our foreign policy always seems to be whatever will benefit us the most, and I believe this to be the root of all state sponsored terrorism. Countries are…

If you were to ask someone what the definition of terrorism is, you’d most likely get answers like bombings and groups of people trying to hurt others, but the more accepted and applicable definition is summarized as: combatants inflicting violence on noncombatants for ideological, political, or monetary gain. My inquiry derived from this definition is terrorism ever justified? The conundrum with this concept of terrorism is that there is so many characteristics to terrorism that must all fit…

make the world safe. His goal was to eradicate the threat of terrorism from the world. The United States began their crusade with the hunting of Al Qaeda, the Taliban, and Osama Bin Laden. After many years we finally killed the mad man behind the attacks of September Eleventh. Today there is a new organization on the world stage; the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, or I.S.I.S for short. This “state” has been trying to enact the caliphate that once stood in place in the Middle East during the…

The War on Terror has been continuous from that point forward. There were principle destinations for the War on terror those were to crush Osama Bin Laden and Abu Musab al-Zarqawi. Bin Laden was found and murdered on May first, 2011. Abu Musab al-Zarqawi was executed by an air strike on June 7, 2006. To add to that, On September 14, 2001, another law happened called AUMF which remains for Authorization for Use of Military Force Against Terrorists. This gave…

The September 11, 2001, attacks by al-Qaeda were meant to harm the United States, and they did, but in ways that Osama bin Laden probably never imagined. President George W Bush’s response to the attacks compromised the United States’ basic principles, undermined its economy, and weakened its security. The attack on Afghanistan that followed the 9/11 attacks was understandable, but the subsequent invasion of Iraq was entirely unconnected to al-Qaeda - as much as Bush tried to establish a link.…