Al-Qaeda in Iraq

existence and connections to other terrorist groups around the globe have used their Islamic belief to recruit other members (FRONTLINE, 2014). ISIS started in Iraq after the Al Qaeda and claimed to protect Sunnis population. This started under the leadership of Malik as the new leader of Iraq. Those were the soldier that was in Al Qaeda in Iraq that moved to Syria. The interested part of this is that they did not get stronger until their entered Syria. Those was the young man who spent times in…

Terrorism: 9/11 On the morning of Tuesday, September 11, 2001 a group of terrorist called “Al-Qaeda” hijacked 4 airplanes and crashed them into the world trade center’s north and south tower in New York City. This left the whole world in shock. What many people thought was going to be a normal day came out to be a day that we will never forget. Nothing this devastating had ever happened in US Soil since the Pearl Harbor attack on December 7, 1941. A perfectly executed plan by a terrorist group…

Al-Qaeda and ISIS are two Islamist multi-national organizations which aims to spread all over the region in order to unify the Muslim world, they believe they represent religion, and use the later to justify their actions. These two Islamic groups have fought war against what they called the non-Islamic population and the west. As much as the two organizations have big similarities from how they both share the Wahhabi ideology, loathe the religious establishment of al-Azhar, involved in…

ISIS is an expansion of ISI (Islamic State in Iraq) and is working in both Iraq and Syria. Just until two years ago, ISIS had been a subsided group of al-Qaeda. They are now becoming rivals of al-Qaeda. ISIS is a very specific Islamic group that wants to use force and military power to change the beliefs of the Middle East. They use views of pure religion to raise large amounts of money from donors and use that money to recruit soldiers from all over the world to help Islam. ISIS is a mafia-like…

This paper will provide an in-depth organizational profile of the international terrorist organization known as al-Qaeda, Arabic for “the base”, as well as a look at the leadership, funding, support locations, personnel strength, ideology, targeting, tactics, capability, communications, and overall goals of the group. Al-Qaeda was responsible for the worst attack on United States soil on September 11, 2001, as they planned and executed the hijacking of four commercial airliners and crashed two…

Recruitment Al Qaeda core beliefs are avenging the wrongs of the Jews and Christians against Muslims over the past decades. The Muslims want to revamp the world to replace the states with one true Islamic leadership. Al Qaeda wants to drive out all Americans from Saudi Arabia. Al Qaeda has transformed and adapts their recruitment methods since 9/11 to implement new and invasive method to recruit members to the organization. The United States made every effort to dismantle and to be…

October, al-Qaeda announced to a new sub terrorist group that…

“against the idea of a Muslim enemy, as well as against al-Qaeda and the Taliban in Afghanistan, Saddam Hussein in Iraq, and later Muammar Gaddafi in Libya.” (Engelhardt) While the terrorists responsible for the attack were not Iraqi (they were Saudi Arabian) Bush viewed Saddam Hussein as being a supporter of terrorist organizations in the region, particularly Al-Qaeda who was responsible for the 9/11 attacks. Bush also made the argument that Iraq was in possession of WMD (weapons of mass…

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. The History of Al Qaeda According to BBC News, “Many volunteers from Arab countries had gone to…

news. With each air attack and taped execution, one question keeps popping up into the minds of our citizens, who is ISIS? ISIS is an acronym which stands for the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, a terrorist group that first came into view around 2003 after the U.S. invasion of Iraq. The current leader of ISIS, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, plans to take control of all Muslims worldwide, and will kill any “infidels” who stand in their way. This grave act of abuse towards anyone who doesn’t follow ISIS…