Al-Qaeda in Iraq

Islam has become the number one focus of U.S. intelligence, military, and foreign policy in the years since 9/11. Its growth from political Islam to terrorism has been marked by numerous scholars and their contemporaries ranging from Qutb to Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi. There are many driving forces behind radical Islam, but one of the most important yet confusing is the concept of Jihad, which is used by all groups. Qutb describes the main goal of Islamic jihadism by writing, in his book…

caused citizens from many nations to live in fear from what's coming next. Over the past few years the United States have been receiving threats from a militant group in the Middle East called ISIS. The group named ISIS stands for “ Islamic state of Iraq and Syria.” Citizens in the United States are scared and don’t understand why our country isn’t doing anything about it. The United States military should act more aggressively to stop the ongoing threats and attacks from ISIS because they’re…

wounded. The horrendous event highlighted significance of terrorism threats in America, while propelling the terrorist syndicate Al Qaeda to international stardom, eventually becoming the face of terrorism in the new millennium. Spanning the thirteen years subsequent to the attacks…

unfair and unbalanced writing such as the Cindy Sheehan story that was created by the media. The facts were not correct from the beginning, the media portrayed her “as a poor woman who wanted to see President Bush because her son had been killed in Iraq,” however, and the truth was she had already seen him once before (Finsterbusch, 2013, p.7). In addition, Cindy supported the Iraqi rebellion and the killing of children and women but the news media failed to report that and the…

country, it was the attack against the nation that now over fourteen years, the country is still left facing and has continued to cause the lives of many. On that same day of the attack former President Bush gave notice that the groups known as the Al-Qaeda were the ones associated with the attacks. That is when the country began to go to complete operation mode in protecting the nation and it’s people, and it began planning a war. It’s leader at the time President George W. Bush had made…

of the time when I lived in my old home town, Sini. In 2006 after more than three years after the war in Iraq. A civil war erupted in the country between Sunni and Shee’a and Al Qaeda was involved too. It was a mess were you do not know your enemies from your friends. In my small home town in the middle northern part of the country where all the population is Sunni, the war was between Al Qaeda and…

Jacob Klingbeil Mrs. Foust Honors English 12 12/5/2017 Motives and Methods of Terrorism In the past decade, terrorism has increasingly become more of a problem. With advances in technology, terrorists have found new ways to strike fear. Identifying and preventing attacks has become much harder because of these advancements. Along with the many methods of attack, there are several different motives for attack. There may not be an easy solution to the issue of terrorism, since there are many…

Al- Qaida’s central goal of jihad is a defensive reaction towards Western hostility against the religion of Islam and Muslims which diverges from the divine law of the shariʿa. This global militant organization does also perceive the necessity for its community of believers (ummah) from foreign lands with non-Muslims that are unable to live as per their religion to be prepared in supporting their jihadist activities by opposing this society of unbelievers in the West until it impedes their…

lives? Many people believe that 9/11 was the beginning of the War on terror, which could be justified as true, however, many tensions had lead to the attacks of September 11, 2001 and the beginning of the war on terror. Most are aware of the Taliban, Al-Qaeda, and likeminded groups and their associations with terrorism and their attacks on the World Trade Centers in New York City, New York, USA. Since 1996 the Taliban had governmental control of Afghanistan. Because the Taliban is a radical…

upon which the United States of America was attacked by a group of terrorists. Specifically al Qaeda. The attack made Americans feel vulnerable to more attacks; but, the event sparked nationalism that led to war in a foreign country that did not have much to with the attacks on 9/11. The country of Iraq was invaded by the United States of America in 2003 under notions that did not connect entirely. The Iraq War of 2003, a war that could have been completed avoided, changed the face of the Middle…