Al-Qaeda

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…

most hated terrorist is Osama bin Laden. Osama bin Laden was born in 1957 in Saudi Arabia and was one of 50 children in his family. When bin Laden was 11 years old, his father died in a helicopter accident (“Terrorism research,” n.d.). Osama attended Al Thagher Model Schools in Jeddah for education from 1968-1976. There he learned British style education and the religion of Islam. The teachers were members of a group called the Muslim Brotherhood, which started in Egypt. The Muslim Brotherhood…

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…

excelled, Al-Zarqawi added spectacular methods like improvised explosive devices, suicide bombings and beheadings. In a restricted territory, his organization multiplied targets: Jordanian Embassy, the Iraqi government, American troops and their allies, oil wells, Shiite mosques, politicians, Iraqi police, foreign civilian hostages, or still the United Nations…

avoids leaving any digital trail, but of course still needs a human courier who can be tracked to his destination, as was the case with the al-Qaeda leader, killed by US Navy Seals in Pakistan in 2011 (Gardner, 2013). Since the death of Osama Bin Laden, Al Qaeda has had limited success as a terror organization as a whole. It has been said though, if Al Qaeda harnesses the social networking tools that facilitated the “Arab Spring” to spark a transnational spate of spontaneous terrorist attacks…

headquarters and training camps in the country and began orchestrating operations from there Following the terrorist attacks of September 2001, the United States found itself at war with al Qaeda, Osama bin Laden’s international terrorist organization. In response to the terrorist attacks, and because al Qaeda utilized it as a base for training and operations, the Bush Administration formulated a national strategy for war in Afghanistan As with most wars and major foreign policy initiatives,…

group called Al-Qaeda (“History”). Osama Bin Laden was a Saudi fugitive who founded Al-Qaeda in 1989. Al-Qaeda was originally formed to fight a jihad, a war or struggle against unbelievers, against the Soviet Union in Afghanistan, but soon turned its attention towards the United States (“Events”). Some of the terrorists had lived in the United States for over a year and had completed flying lessons. The remaining terrorists had snuck into the U.S. prior to the attacks (“History”). Al-Qaeda had…

9/11: Hatred of the Al-Qaeda People September 11, 2001 proved to be the most fatal terrorist attack on United States soil.This is the day that 5 militants of Al-Qaeda hijacked four planes and chose targets in the United States. This was the most horrific event in the history of the United States happened on 9/11/01. To begin, The planes were taken over by Al-Qaeda. The planes had between 7000-22000 gallons of fuel between the four of them. One of the militants had a knife on board the…

Him along with Abdullah Azzam, and a few others were the leaders of Al- Qaeda. Osama tended to micromanage his organization and what had become his business empire all while Al- Qaeda expanded into agriculture and manufacturing. All along the way he continued to strengthen his organization by retaining business interests and supporting political leaders, cultivating presidents…

approximately $600 billion worth of equipment of all types, whether that be weapons, ships, or anything, ready to strike any enemy that may cross the line (9/11, 1). However, on September 11, 2001 nation was brought to its knees by 19 untrained, unarmed al-Qaeda terrorists hijacked 4 American Airlines flights, 11,147, 77, and 93, and flew the planes into the World Trade Center towers in New York, the Pentagon in Washington D.C., and one was targeted for the White House, but crashed in a field in…